Show lui j to 0 IQ N WS N ayi tf aw i 61 pays AYS TO GRIND 04 ik J B GRAIN FOR STEERS SS grinding feed for my young steers to cut the kilo feed bill about betro bles mo tle the I 1 lotee per cent writes D D stevens ln in success county co rowa iowa the hington I 1 1 toy l 1 I usually feed oats and aad bat iam both of ji which fire ground in ti bif 8 shape it Is easily digested and the bea a waste because of cattle bolting Is 01 corn Is eliminated of course ere la is very y little hos hog feed from shelled corn but the ground e alq to Beert erg fed up P a big share of this old 1 steers T this hii ch I usually buy young averaged pounds when I 1 after almost it ft year on dye TE ii 4 bought aught them be aund un grain hay and roughage they fell scaled aled close to 1000 pounds this la Is for forhia 14 very good increase in les less than la 11 relve m months usually I 1 buy these II 11 ba battle tue in november and through the pap i lInter anter give them silage clover tiny hay and aund feed the winter feed of grain b about two thirds of what they will sex set arat t when on full feed and even then h libbe b C be full feed la Is only about twenty coll rounds of mixed wound grain 1 ut alien my citver and blue grass crasa ls Is ready lendy nione along in may alay the battle attle are turned out there to Is no set f ack at first because I 1 still continue tc athe ile bay and grain after a bit they do H 11 eat but the corn and oats leaving toy loathe he hay along in september when the he corn Is in good shape I 1 turn tarn the cattle in the fields for a month with the e hogs hoa the grain Is ripe but not thoroughly hardened this does not al ad haake make any difference ii I 1 H the reason I 1 feed young cattle la Is of the initial investment it Is not very I 1 large so that the interest on the investment does not make very much n V difference then too there Is the sav 4 10 ing lo in freight rate in sending the stuff I 1 back from the marketto market to my feedlot T marketing of roughage Is another advantage I 1 which cannot be overlooked for the cattle are on the place for almost a year and consequently nothing gets away from them as aa to Is the case when a farmer has stock only parts of the year |