The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-05-04

tend.
The growing interest in better
livestock is reflected in daily reports
from the livestock producing GEN.
tiers by field agents of the livestock
interests and from county agents,
who have been arranging for the
Farmers Better Sire Sale OF 200
pure bred bulls to be held at the
Bourbon Stock Yards June End.
Believe Kentucky should Have
More Cattle
How farmers of the state may
save from s5,OO0,000 to 100000
900 annually through the proper
care of. slower and feeding livestock
was discussed by Prof. e. s. Good,
assistant director of the State Ex-
pertinent Station, Kentucky Univer-
sity College of Agriculture in an adj
dress to farmers and breeders at the
Bourbon Stock Yards.
The address Of Prof. Good. follows:
"I am not of those who believe
Kentucky should have more cattle,
larger number of head of live
stock. l have been in this game
quite a number of years and l can
remember the time when the bull
lock went to market weighing 1900
fbs. then after few years, came
down to 400 TBS. No one thought
of putting a steer on the market
weighing less than labs. now we
are getting then to much smaller
weight, developing quality and in
order to do it, must have better
sires. In olden times in Illinois,
we always fattened cattle with so
bu. of corn and ton of clover hay,
but a man feeding that way today
would go broke. If we are going to
be successful in feeding steers, we
must learn how to cut the cost. A
man who feeds an unlimited
amount of corn is going to come
out of the little end of the horn. l
want to say to you that Kentucky
loses annually a great deal in live
stock by not conserving the roughs.
The losses by not taking proper
care of slower is estimated any
Uh mill 70 mi
lions or in other words, one fourth
of the stover in Kentucky is lost. If
you leave it out on the fields, the
rain causes loss, and il you wait
until Spring to feed it you get very
little out of it. If it is cut with the
corn and put into the silo, the steer
eats all of it and thus it is cOnserv-
ed. If we are going to feed. we
must have ration. The old method
of feeding cattle was full feeding
of silage, full feeding of corn, of
cotton seed meal and etc. The
next thing was that clover hay was
not necessary when feeding nitro
genous feeds as cottonseed meal,
and with this, it can be elmated
II you have a second growth, it is
all right to include this, but it is
not necessary to give clover hay to
the steer II you are feeding cotton
seed meal. save the clover for the
young. Next thing in feeding silage
is to determine whether or not 1t
is profitable. Whether to begin
with corn at the beginning or to
eliminate corn from the first feeding
period. 1t is more profitable to
eliminate corn entirely, especially if
corn is high and there are a num-
Der OF steers on the market. The
man this year who has fed his
steers corn silage, cottonseed meal
and straw has made money or at
least, has lost the least.
A long time ago the Blue Grass
Region thought that If you fed cat
tie on silage during the winter 1t
would not Craze good during the
summer. Where you feed cotton
seed meal in the winter, 1t takes
little while longer to get the steer
to gain on grass. A test was made
with one bunch feeding with she'll
ed corn, straw and cottonseed meal
which gained as much as those led
with silage aud the cattle Wen. on
grass weighing about the same. The
silage fed steer put on gain six or
seven times cheaper than those that
did not get it, Two out of three
years the steer that did not get sill
age gained better on grass than
those that did In one year those
that got silage gained better than
those that did not. but in three
years those that got silage made a
better nroft than tho atbars We