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

IN STUDY Out Cficdl1CI PiOdtlOtlOii. !
The third speaker was Way
land Rhodes, the cattle feeding
man of the extension department
of the Kentucky Experiment
Station. Mr.. Rhodes goes to i
every part of the state and stu-
dies the methods of feeding be-
ng used and tries to advise and
help the different feeders as
much as possible with their
problems. He IS q young man!
and well up OH market and feed
conditions.
Mr.. Rhodes said that after
observing cattle feeders for sew
sral years and talking over their
problems with them he was thor
3ughly convinced that if they,
would do more feeding on grass
where the cattle were TO be-
grazed. instead Of giving ali Of
he feed during the winter that
It would be more economical !
that he does not believe it IS q
good practice to feed d steer ali
the corn he would eat I'D to
grass and then turn him our
with nothing to eat but grass
alone. Why not give him less
in the winter and then taper off
the corn on grass for about GO
or more days and not make the
change from dry to green feed
so sudden? He said instead OF
starting the steers on a heavy
feed of corn in January and
gradually increasing it until the
steer was eating all he could
hold, give him about 10 to 10 or
20 ears per day during dry feed,
and then string out the rest Of
the corn ON grass. In other
words, feed more towards the
ear than toward grass.
Mr.. Rhodes believes that the
time has come when the farmers
who are feeding cattle are go
ing to have to study conditions
thoroughly and strive in every
way to produce a pound Of beef
as chcaply as possible and that
they are not going to follow 4
system Just because it proved
successful for their fathers; the
price OF living and the price of
beef, are going to make them
study these things. He realizes
that it takes as much brains to
proftably conduct a farm as it
does any other business and that
in order to stay in the game q
man must either be rich, luck. or
else study the problem in a solid
business way, devoid of all sen-
timent. Mr.. Rhodes says that
where practically all the farm
ers have lost money Oh their
cattle in the last two years. yet
it is an outstanding TACT that the
man who has practiced the most
economical methods of feeding
are the ones who have lost the
least amount. He gave figures
to prove that cattle receiving all
the corn they would eat through!
the winter were very little nea-
vier in the fall than those which
were just wintered in good
strong condition. That neither
the finish, increased weight nor
the selling price had justified or
paid Go< the extra corn.
After the speakers had finish
ed we had a very interesting
"round table" discussion regard-I
ing the best methods OF hand-i
ling hogs ard cattle. MIR. Joe
Harris gave us the results OF
feeding some 'wflite faced
heifers which he purchased in
Kansas City last summer and
which he fed on silage and mar
keted in March Of this year.
While Mr.. Harris said that he
did not get rich on these heifers,
they did we'll and made q .httie
/
Mr. !. R. Mckinney told Of
some OF his experiences, some
Of which were good, sonc vH''y
good, some bad aud some "eryf
BAD. SAID that he was mailing
about six differ mt grades o.. cat
tie this year and ;lla4 he hof ed
to be able to make some fGoney /
on some of them. Said chat be L
had wintered cattle on alsike
and had found ttat they grazedi
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