The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-07-09

SAOA LEN IKE he
F. Ferrin of the division of animal
husbandry, University of Minnesota.
Mr.. Ferrin adds few other rules
which will help to minimize losses
Hogs should be hauled to shipping
points during the cool part of the day.
Sand is far better than clean straw
for bedding cars in hot weather. Cars
should be loaded to less than the
minimum weight. In extremely hot
weather 100 to $50 pounds of ice
should be suspended in bags from the
roof of the car.
| Feeding and Fitting Baby Beef
Calves-This is the second of SER
les of lectures or notes by "A. A.
Dowell, livestock specialist of the ag-
ricultural extension service of the
University of Minnesota, for boys
and girls doing baby beef work.
After selecting good calves, the
next step is to see they are properly
fed. Young calves should be allowed
to nurse until they are seven or eight
months old, as whole milk is unequa-
lied for this purpose. A good grain
mixture should also be provided just
as soon as they show desire to nib
BILE around the feed trough. This will
be when they are four to six weeks of
age. The following mixture has CIV
en- good results:
Ground oats ........... As pounds
Ground corn go. 25 pounds
Wheat bran ~ pounds
At first very little grain will be re-
quired, but the amount will increase
steadily as the calves develop. By
the time they are six months old, they
will be eating six to eight pounds Of
grain daily. Good leafy alfalfa or
clover hay should always be available,
even though they will seemingly eat
but little. AS with all classes of
stock, beef calves should have access
to water and salt at all times. :
The proportion of the different
feeds used in the grain mixture should
be gradually changed as the calves
advance in age. More corn will be
required and less oats and bran. The
object in increasing the corn allow
ance is to hasten the fattening pro-
cess, corn being particularly val
liable feed for this purpose. Barley is
almost as efficient fattening grain
as corn, and can be used in case the
latter grain is not available. By the
time the calves are nine to ten
pounds old, they will be eating
around ten pounds of the grain mix
ture, three to four pounds of good
alfalfa or clover hay and eight pounds
of silage per day. The following mix
ture is recommended for calves of
this age: ~ 81,
Ground corn &C.,. &c.,, o0 pounds
Ground oats 2O pounds
Wheat bran ...........1 10 pounds
Linseed oilmeal 10 pounds
Alfalfa or clover hay. Silage. -
Feed the grain and silage in two
equal feeds, morning and night, but
keep. the hay before them at all
times. 1t is more satisfactory to feed
Just what will be cleaned up raidily
within a reasonable time. say one
hour, rather than have the grain con-
stantly before them. Any grain or
silage not cleaned up by this time
should be: removed and a fresh sup
ply given at the next feeding. A
clean feed box with fresh feed at each
meal will insure more rapid gains:
AZ Carloads Entered In Baby
Beef Contest-Forty-two entries had
been received up. to July 1 for the
S"Cafload Baby Beef Contest" start
ed by the agricultural extension SER
vice of the University of Minnesota.
This number already surpasses. all
original expectations, but as the en-
try lists will not be closed until July
81 there is fair prospect that about
so carload lots will be lined up for
the word 600" Martin, Mower, and
Redwood counties were the leaders
July 1, each with six entries. Mobiles
county came next with five.
Death May Lurk In Delayed Ex-
plosions-Farmers who are using ex-
plosives in clearing land are warned
by the agricultural engineers at
Washington and University Farm
against approaching charge where
hang-fire or delayed explosion is at
all possible. Recently Nebraska
county agent was instantly killed
while blowing stumps. In this case
when the charge did not explode the
man approached the stump and was
blown into the air by the belated ex-
plosion. every precaution and care
should be taken in handling explos-
ives," says A. j. Schwantes, land
clearing specialist of the University
of Minnesota. eff they are handled
properly they are comparatively safe.
Carelessness is responsible for most
all the accidents.
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