Show ROUGH LAND AND FEED FOR BEEF cows can be made to pay nice profit to owner beef prices are away up it seems as if there should be on opportunity in cattle for a good many men who have lots of rough land with plenty of grass and and grain to keep th stock thrifty beef cowa can be m ide to p ay iy nice returns this la proved by figures from 22 missouri farms haie been checked over by the bbate agricultural college it wn found that all the costs of keeping a beef cow for a year roughage grain taxes interest bull service and nil averaged 2530 and tb calves were worth about 32 a lead tills Is a good showing but to make it the cows must be carried on rough bcd as much as possible the report emphasizes some other interesting points are these calves fed grain while nursing their mothers can be made to weigh at least GOO pounds when eight to ten months old such calves will usually be fat enough for immediate slaughter calves fed grain while nursing their mothers were approximately pounds per head heavier and worth 2 a hundredweight more at seven and a half months old weaning than similar ones of the same age that received no grain prior to weaning calves that are to be sold for slaughter at weaning should be started on grain when two to three months old they majy follow their mothers and eat in a creep or be separated from their mothers and allowed to nurse and have grain twice a day calves fed grain while nursing and those receiving no grain prior to weaning may be fed and marketed as fat yearnings yearlings year lings this plan Is adapted to farms producing summer calves or growing a surplus of corn that Is to be marketed by feeding to cattle hopeful results come out of feeding testa hopeful results have come out of feeding tests being made by the col lege of agriculture university of illinois to help farmers cope with the critical situation which now prevails with respect to scab infection of barley throughout the mississippi valley it Is reported by prof II 11 P rusk head of the animal husbandry depart ment cattle fed the scab damaged barley have during the first month at the test made gains as high as any that can be remembered in local feeding tests it was announced birley fed to them carried about 50 per cent scab infection As yet however the hinves tl gators have met with little success in getting hogs to cat scab infected barley without harmful results barley throughout the mississippi valley this year was hit by one of the worst scab devastations in history hogs which ordinarily are the chief consumers of the barley crop refuse to eat the scab infected groin unless starved into doing so in which case the resulting sickness Is serious and sometime fatal unconfirmed reports have come from ohio that even cattle have died from eating the damaged barley while one case Is reported from northwestern illinois in which horses were killed by it so serious did the situation become that germany recently placed an embargo on all barley from america barley straw Is not satisfactory roughage barley straw Is not as satisfactory a roughage tor horses and cattle as corn fodder usually barley straw ta more woody iran fodder and Is not as palatable borses and cattle seem to have little trouble with beards from barley straw however the feeding value of the Is relatively low and a good grade of corn fodder should be worth considerable more generally speaking barley straw and wheat straw are quite comparable as feeds and oat straw Is to be preferred n J gramlich university ot nebraska intestinal worms A new method of treating domestic animals for intestinal worms that will be safe economical and effective la being sought by the south dakota state college experiment station if the experiment proves successful la producing a good remedy for tape worms in sheep in hoga and intestinal worms in other farm animals it may bo worth thousands of dollars to farmers and stockmen stoc kmen oats for hogs hole oils are suitable tor all clashes of hogg excepting small alga for these young pigs the oats should be finely gionna in order to avoid in burlous effects from too much course in the hulls fine grinding also adds to the feeding value of oats for older chotei and for fattening hogs and the ground oats can be fed without need for including corn with them in he rallou hole ants well for brood pow wi on pasture f |