Show LIVE a NEW MARKET MILLET HAY BY STEERS that millet hay can be more economically no marketed through feeder steers than cane hay wis shown at the washington county cattle peed ers day at abron colo before a crowd of interested farmers and live stock men forty six head of aberdeen anang steer calves were divided into two lots and fed two rations made no largely of home grown feeds millet and cane hays two of the surest dry land roughage were used in the test to determine their value in producing fleshy feeders ane results indicate that the farm er with cane or millet hays for which there has been almost no market can convert them into cash through at tie to advantage the steers in one lot were fed ground barley corn and cob meal cottonseed meal cane hay and a small amount of mineral and salt the other lot received identically the same ration except millet hay was for cine hay the millet hay lot roade an aver age dally gain of pounds for the 76 days of the lest at a feed cost ot per pounds gain after figuring feed interest shipping and selling costs the animals must bring 48 per pounds to pay out this allows a margin of profit in the light of present prices the calves in the cane hay lot gained an average ct S 18 pounds per day at a feed cost of per pounds gain andja will show a profit if sold for over per pounds the were shipped to denver immediately after the feeder day program where t they will be exhibited at the stock show a few days before sold I 1 the cattle were owned and fed by A A fanker of ahron who cooperated in the demonstration alth J C foster extension agent in wash ington county and B W lle stock specialist of the colorado agricultural college pasture Is essential I 1 to brood sow and pigi it possible the brood sow while nursing a litter of pigs should be on a good green pasture of some kind if it Is late in the fall or early in the spring so tint pasture Is not avail able the sow hould should s have all of the good green alfalfa liay she cares to eat cora can then be fed astle principal grantt to the brood sow pro 1 aided vided it Is properly supplemented with other feeds feed in addition to the corn either some oats middling or wheat bran then in addition to this the sow should have either some milk product pio duct such as salm milk or butter milk or some dried protein supplement such as or a mixture of tank age with linseed or cottonseed meal A ration of 75 per cent corn 20 per cent either oats or aran and 5 per cent or a protein mixture of and or cot meal would make a very at Is factory ration for such a sow it salm milk or buttermilk Is used two to four gallons of milk per sow per day could be used ripe millet hay haid on kidneys of cattle ripe millet hay has much the same kind of food value as timothy hay ex capt that it seems to be rather bard on the kidneys also there seems to be some tendency tor the haira on the heads to accumulate in the stomachs of cattle on this account it is best to be on the safe side and feed it about half and liala with some other roughage it seems to be especially important to do tills with because the kidneys of hors seem to be more susceptible to the influence of hay than the kidneys of cat tie llope millet hay when not more than one half the roughage should bo satisfactory O i live stock o o o o oa alfalfa pasture Is the foundation of clieaf pork production on thousands of farms equal parts of shelled corn and oats will make a good grain mixture to use in getting the calf started on feed alie amount of feed at the ata will depend somewhat on the size 01 tho calf about three pounds of silage one halt pound of bay for each iw pounds of live weight of the calf about nil the roughage that should w fed if more Is allowed the calf not eat enough corn to fatten raple rickets in cattle swine and poultry and a are very common troubles causing considerable loss for growing out and feeding breed ing animals legumes are Inva lua they can be used to a very alon nd vintage in fattening silage hay and fodder with the a t of a pound of cottonseed or 11 seed cake for each cow dally carev them through the winter in S |