Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-26


ton, and in most, if not all cases.1
it has been proven that the
same amount of food put into
the silo and fed to the cattlei
during tl1e winter as would haveI
been fed dry under the other
method, then both branches OIL
cattle being .grazed, that they
found in 'the fall at the end off
the grazing season that the sill
age fed cattle were Just as heal
Wy and generally Il little fatter,
and had been prodtlt ed more
economically. j
When we realize that men
who have made All analysis. Of
the corn plant found 5 to ii |
| per cent of the feeding ,alue Of |
the corn plant is in he stall, and
50 to IS per cent III III" ear, we
must readily see that tine oiC
method used by feeding she foo
der Out dry in the winter after
! having been in the shock in the
field for several months, woulG
not utilize the fuH value cf thu
feeding plant, While by putting
In the silo, every particle Of the
plant is utilized, S:onc farmers
/ in the blue grass country believe
/ that is more economical and q |
better distribution of the manure
to feed out in the fields and pos
sibly some do not place as iligF
value Upon the manure as they
do in some sections. Mr.. Hughes
idea is that it pays better to feed
Under shelter using plenty oil
bedding and using the extra
amount Of labor in hauling and
scattering the manure, than the
present practice of feeding oute|
on the fields where a very >on
siderable part of the rIianiirc is
wasted by being deposited where
not needed. Mr., Hughes say,
that he spent a week in Larcas-
ter county, Pennsylvania, Whici
! is said to be the richest agr1crrl-
tural country in the Cnlted
States. Probably the largest.
amount of tobacco is grcwn II
this county because some year,
they raise as much as 40 milior
pounds. They probably nave thu
largest yield per acre of any
county in the United States. Re
alizing that they must keep II
the fertility TO grow this large
acreage and yield of tobacco
they depend very largely OF
manure and every farmer iced
a bunch of cattle in the barn
carefully saving all the manure
! most of them being satisfied =,
they can get the market rice
for their hay and corn and make
as a profit, the manure The.
winter Mr.. Hughes was in Penn
| sylvania there was said to be go
000 cattle being fed in the barns
IN Lancaster county.
i MIR. Hughes said while 1t
would be foolish for him to ad-
i wise a radical change in their
method as it looked like they
could not give each steer four O,
five acres of blue grass land.
that they might look into the
following plan. AS they are in
the habit of buying their cattle
IN the fall OF the year they might
buy we'll bred cattle weighing
from six to seven hundred
pounds and carry them through
the winter on silage With about
one pound of cotton seed meal
and some other cheap roughness
like straw or fodder, and in some
cases it would be desirablel
where the corn could be used tol
advantage in feeding hogs, tot
pull the corn OFT and put the
stalks in the silo. For youngI
cattle this silage with one poundl
of meal per day will keep them
growing and gaining. Thesci
young cattle could be turned
oat on the grass when ready i'll
the spring and instead of usingi
four or five acres to a steer,
these cattle might be grazed OIL
d good deal less than half THAI
acreage, probably not more than
an acre and half per steer; not
with an idea of finishing them
on grass, but make a very salts
factory gain and then in Sept
TENDER begin with corn either i'll
the shape OF corn silage with
cotton seed meal, or their ear
corn they have saved from the
past winters feeding, and feed
these cattle 90 to 60 days. 1t isl
a well known fact that the trade
/, demanding lighter cattle than