Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-26
SPLENDID STORY
OF EXPERTS visit
Charles II. Jett Makes Compre.
~hensive Report OF Examina-
tion of Feeding Conditions
Richmond Daily Register,
Richmond, Ky.
Dear Sir

{ eiDear Sir
In agreement to your request
that | write up the beef cattle
l feeders meeting, which was held
in Richmond on Saturday, April
l 18th, l am writing the following
l which will give a general idea of
our program.
Under the direction of T. E.
Baldwin, Jr., few met at the
court house at 9 o'clock in the
morning and went in automobiles
to visit the cattle on the farms of
| Messrs. Baldwin, T.. D. Chenault,
! c. H. lett, and A. r. Gibbs. They
saw some as good cattle as you
would likely see anywhere and
they showed that they had been
wintered in good condition and
that they were going to get fat
and would be market toppers.
After visiting these cattle, the
party returned to Richmond, hal
lunch and met at the court house
a little after 2 o'clock. There we're
around a hundred or more to hear
Prof. E./S. Good, Morgan O.
Hughes. and Wayland Rhodes.
Mr.. Good was the first speak,
er and gave us very nice talk
on Cattle and Hogs" He gave
a short resume of the results Of
the beef cattle experiments con-
! Quoted by the Kentucky Expert
ment Station, also short talk on
feeding and handling hogs. He
prefaced his remarks by saying
that different sections of the state
have their own peculiar problems
with regard to animal husbandry
and that a system that would be
adaptable to one section might
not be adaptable to another. He
said that the Kentucky Expert
ment Station had conducted three
consecutive experiments in deter
mining whether cattle after hav-
ing silage the previous winter
would gain as much on grass as
would cattle making the same
gains through the winter on ra-
| ton containing no silage. 1t was
found that there was very little
difference. In two cases the silage
cattle gained little less and in
the third little more on grass
than did the dry fed ones. That
the silage fed and dry fed both
sold for the same on the same
market and that owing to the fact
that it cost less to winter the sill
age cattle than the dry fed cattle
the silage fed cattle made a great
er profit. Mr.. Good said feed a
small amount of cotton seed meal
with the silage.
In three years experiment to
determine the difference between
corn and sorghum for silage, it
was found that sorghum was Isl
| per cent as efficient as corn,
pound for pound. However, in
dry season sorghum will stand
/ the drought better than corn and
would be the more economical of
the two forms of silage. This
would be particularly true of the
weather conditions last season.
! Mr.. Good said that the raising
and feeding of hogs was the rich
farmers protection and the poor
! farmers fortune. He also said
that some farmers advocate only
/ the spring litter. But all one
would have to do would be. to-
! look at the fine shoats seen today
that which farrowed last fall to
be convinced of the fallacy of this
statement. Kentucky is a state
with a climate so mild that forage
crops can be utilized in the feed
i ing of hogs during the larger part
of the year. Mr.. Good said that
when grass and the cereals were
young and tender that they con-
tain just as much protein and ash
as do the clovers and alfalfa and
were just as useful for grazing
purposes as were these legumes.
After the cereals arrive at some
height, say fifteen or sixteen in
ches, the protein decreases rapid
| ly and the crude fibre increases
rapidly and the hog having a
small stomach cannot utilize
crude fibre to good advantage.
/ The small hog after chewing such
material for a while usually spits
it out of his mouth. The most
economical gains with hogs are
obtained by the feeding of grain
on good pasture. Grass alone
without grain would only about
maintain the pig but if grain
were added one should expect
from fifteen to eighteen pounds
.of pork for every bushel of corn
| fed.
4 Mr.. Good suggested the follow
!. ing rotation of pastures: rye for
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