The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-10
PRODUCTION COST IS REDUCED
Experiments by Experts in All
Cases Show improvements.
Dean Jardine Takes Active Part
in the Display Today.

IN the DlSpldy 1OOdys
Manhattan. Kan. June 1O.-Live-
stock men from all parts of the state
results in the livestock pens of the
many experiments in fattening cattle.
sheep and hogs. conducted by the ami
NAL husbandry department OF the
Kansas Agricultural college during
the past year. and listened TO reports
on these experiments. pointing out the
most economical methods of feeding.
The occasion was the tenth annual
Kansas Livestock Feeders convention.
Prof. c. w. McCampbell, head OF
the department. emphasized how new
world as we'll as domestic conditions
have created new problems for Kan.
sas producers. IAN these problems.
he stated, hinge on the fact that in
the very near future we must depend
on domestic consumption as an outlet
for the livestock production OF the
farms Of this country"
-Four outstanding problems CONFRONT
the stock producers. Professor Nc
Campbell states. as follows:
Stimulating greater consumption OF
meat.
Protection from foreign competition
Especially Australian. where farm
products can be produced cheaper
thu in the United States
Lower transportation costs-freight
charges being 100 per cent higher
than they we're in 1915.
Production Cost Main Factor.
Reduction in cost Of production of
Iivestock-upon which the animal
husbandry department Of the college
has been workinsS
\ number OF widely known live
stock men were on today's program.
including President w. NJ. Jardine of
the Agricultural college; Prof +. d.
Farrell. director Kansas Experiment
station; c. B. Hineman. Chicago, vice I
president. Institute of American Meat
Packers: J. H. Mercer. Topeka. secre- /
tary Kansas Livestock association and
state livestock commissioner Chester !
Morrill, Washington. packer and /
stockyards administration bureau of
the United States department Of agri- /
culture. The experiments detailed in |
the report were supervised by the fol- l
lowing Aggie mentors; Fattening
cattle. c. w McCampbell; wintering l
cattle. H 3. Winchester; fatteniQg 4
lambs. A. NJ. Paterson; feeding hogs. |
+. W. Bell.
A summarized report on the feeding
experiments follows:
In order to reduce the cost OF pro-
duction We must raise the king OF live
stock that viii produce the greatest
weight of the best quality in the quick
and use more carefully those feeds
and combination that will produce
most economically.
There is need of the use of big
EeEH GllUIE EuEEEuH LLlEhLAESAEa
the king that will produce a rapid
growing offspring that will fatten at
an early age. Steers should weigh
from 500 to 500 pounds at the age of
Il to IL months; hogs should be fat
ard finished for market Weighing -
pounds at six months OF age.
Baby Beef Is Best.
Under average farm conditions fat
tening calves TO be marketed as baby
eel is the safest kind OF cattle to feed.
The initial investment is less, they re-
Quire less feed to make a hundred
pounds Of gain. they are in greater
demand than heavier cattle, which
means that they bring a higher price
per pound when sold. they are less
to feed than older cattle and
may IL necessary be probably carried
several months after reaching a mar
ketable finish.
Ordinary sweet sorghum seed has
usually been considered of little VAL
ue as a grain for fattening cattle for
market, but the Kansas experime nt
station found this year the calves like I
ground sweet sorghum seed as well {.
as they do corn. and will fatten as
rapidly upon it as they will on corn d;
which shows that cane seed may well
be made a part of or all the grain
ration for fattening cattle where cane
seets is available and other grains are
not. ,
The Kansas experiment station has
part OF an ordinary farm ration. white !
iu3 yellow corn has practically the ,
same feeding value. Calves like the ]
yellow corn somewhat better than !
white corn and will eat more Of It and
viii make larger daily gains. but IL re- ,
quires just as much or more yellow :
corn to make given amount OF gain ,
as 1t does white corn. These results I
Indicate that the farmer should grow
the variety of corn that will make the :
largest WELD per acre.
Cattle fed this year have returned ,
he Kansas Experiment station a nett !
profit OF $500 per acre for corn fed,
SIS an acre for alfalfa. and $3.50 an
acre for silage. These results to-
yether with previous results, indicate
hat it is more profitable to full feed !
on corn from the start than to delay
.eeding corn until the cattle have been
IN a~feed of roughage for some time,
Except when corn is exceedingly high
n price.
Cut Hay Early for Feed. =
The earlier alfalfa hay is cut the !
greater is It's feeding value, but the '
more mature alfalfa is before cut the I
more persistent will be the stand in I
iicatfng that hay cut between the time a