Show NEW ME MEERA ERA SEEN SEEM IN IM BEEF PRODUCTION By E J MAYNARD I Free Fr range ran e is gone one Costs of cattle production have been stead stead- ily steadily increasing The present narrow spread e existing between feeder and fat cattle can A be i iA A expected to continue continua In short the survival of each individual cattle grower will be- be pend pendon on his ability to increase the efficiency of his operations to the point where he can weather the storm It will be a 3 survival of th the fit fittest demand t based on supply and de- de mand A knowledge of relative feed feed values is imperative these thee days I IBe Be Because ause of the th advances ances made in th study of animal nutrition the cattleman needs to have a general knowledge of the tho fund fundamentals of this atmore amore science In an attempt at more efficient b beef production t a cattlemen may find fit tt rn results of recent nutritional studies at western experiment stations years Science with practice or or the practical adaptation of these title findings should be of interest to progressive cattlemen of or the entire west est The following i ia is a themore brief discussion of some of the themore more salient points evident to to a modern day student of nutrition Beef calves born in the spring and weaned by th the first of the following year can cnn no longer be suffered to lose weight rim Sm during their first Vin winter r on Nebraska experiments at at Nc Ne- Ne Ne braska Colorado Montana and vel elsewhere indicate that these cal cal- calves ves should be 00 made to gain ap- ap one pound per head per per da day during the winter feed feed- fe mg ing Th inis s can be te accomplish ed accomplished in a number of ways depends depending depending p on the feeds available I With wildor wild or native hay the use of three-fourths three pound of cotton cotton- cottonseed seedcake seed cake cake- two pounds of oats or about three pounds of alfalfa hay per head daily should turn the trick If the calf gains ains more than thi one pound daily the value of the tho extra feed supplied is apt to be lost in the lowering of the cheaper gains secured during the summer grazing period The success of the trench silo i has been throughout the intermountain area In many instances corn silage is worth as asI I much or more than alfalfa hay per ton due to its ability to balance balan a ration of straight alfalfa hay ha Its high value alue when used with the t- t proper protein n hay i is somewhat I comparable to ox of air air when w hen mixed in the carburetor or of ora a car with raw gasoline asoline The air and a nd the silage dont don't have the act act- actual ual u al fuel value alue shown but in cor- cor r rc-ct rc combination they make the gasoline g asoline or alfalfa as the case m may ay be so much more efficient that t hat their value is enhanced In a test in Colorado it was f found that beef er cattle gained 17 pounds p per day when fed alfalfa w with ith corn silage as compared to a alot l lot ot which gained one pound per peray d day ay on alfalfa alone The cost per c cwt wt gain ain was for hay alone and for alfalfa and corn co s silage ilage Beef cattle should have a b bal bal- balanced a ration from birth for most efficient e gains Silage is still a n val al u able feed when added to a n grain a and nd alfalfa ration but its replace replace- replacement replacement ment value is lower when added to t the he already balanced ration There are possibilities for im- im improving improving proving beef cattle rations today tod by addition of phosphorus b but ut only where a phosphorus deli deli- c exists As in the case of sugar beets and other crops an adequate supply of phosphorus is re essential esse to the well being of ani- ani animals animals mals Often it is lacking both bothon on the t he range and in Ia the feed lot A recent steer feeding con contest st conducted at the Utah Stat Agri- Agri Agricultural Agricultural Ag- Ag cultural colle college e serves serve to indicate the lack of phosphorus in sugar beet byproducts rations and means for supplying this deficiency through h the use of f supplements high in phosphorus such as cot cot- cottonseed c ton seed meal steamed bone m meal mealand mealand cot I 1 and wheat bran Cattlemen who will scrutinize their th ir rations well wellmay w may be able to s save ve hundreds or orI j I even thousands of dollars by rem rem- remedying simple deficiencies rem rem-I that at have developed on ranges s and in in lot feed rations of the west I Little Marion and her next door neighbor Donald were engaged in in conversation con What are anarchists Z asked little Marion Donald swelled with wisdom They want everything anyone else has haa got and they never ne w wash sh themselves he replied I see sec said little Marion They y is jest little boys up Smith Hows your your new home hom Jones JoDes Fine We had enoi enough h soap wrappers to get furniture for forono forone one ono room Smith 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