| Show HE WHEAT rR PROBLEM webber of Z C M I 1 and idahoan s from our neighboring IT IT jin cm the narth have essayed rn to the w wheat best problem an aa pro jH abed haded by a cache valley nalley corres o some home weeks ago they agreed 0 i taip th pro probable bable low price of wheat offered intelligent views be for that commodity and the best beat manner of disy f r a eurbia araus eur pia the letter will wiil be regarded as aa a ifal and practical contribution jj n discussion JP seret news your idea of opening up a general die dia concion 0 of the probable price that wheat wm will bring this fall and what is to be done as with the large crop that la is now being threshed to is a good one I 1 doubt if wheat will be as a low as aa it now seems t be Y yet it will be low enough the corn crop in kaneas and will be very short and wheat will go 90 up some partly through m and d partly from the shortage bahn ra should hould ani prices rices rule as aa they now i and san Frano Franal isoo sow it is 0 ae that goo or all wheat that is shipped aprice 41 as will be from 25 cents to 30 cents mcie for the probable price the what todo do with it Is in I 1 think the most topic 0 at present veed feed it to and t the e battle and the cows is in gnawer answer people who live in the y ot a creamery can get about 70 juif wp per cat cwt for milk give the cow r I 1 art of bf grain per day with all the hailand hai and straw she can eat and she will about 20 lb 1 be of milk this will 14 besides the grain she WW eat from 20 to 30 iba ot hay and this ff per ton tn will come to from 6 to 9 ate letioa from 5 to 8 ate to pay for the 4 ita of grain in on t the e other hand if steers are fed they too will do fairly well on 4 lbs ib vt amin erain per r day if fed for about jmj months in 0 n 49 4 or say days this wat ua require haq atre ten bushels busfield to each steer ateer if hiding bibins the first of january the steam W will III be ready to ship the first of kitoe at that time they will bring beef omaha or chicago the fairly 1 product can then be shipped of stockers ers and feeders that weigh no so little and generally generall fie e lowest figure by feeding the steer this ten bushels of wheat he will weigh at least pounds more than if fed on hay bay alone and will sell for about half a cent per pound more on a 1200 pound steer at 3 34 cents per pound this will give for the ten bushels of wheat it will pay every one who has the wheat and steers to try it for quick and sure returns the hog leads unless it be the cow when under favorable conditions she gives sure returns twice each day wheat however is in an excellent food for hogs he is in a poor man in the business who cannot feed wheat to hop hogs and make it bring over 65 55 cents per bushel let all of the early spring and late fall pigs be put up in large yards or if fed in the fields so much this the better make them good troughs and feed the wheat to them either ground or whole on the average it will take about 4 lbs ibs of the wheat to make a pound of pork this will return 60 cents per bushel for the wheat with pigs fed at the experiment station this last winter we obtained much better returns than this our bulletin on the subject is now in the press and will be out soon pigs that weigh say may from to pounds now may be made ready for the market in from 60 to 90 days next look out for the fall pigs and begin feeding them all they will eat just as soon as they will eat at all at seven months old the balance atten at ten months one half ot them will be for the market and will sell at a good figure either at home or if shipped during the winter more care la Is needed but this need hinder none as aa thereto therein generally less of other work to do during the winter season A pig should be fed heavily from the beginning to the end in order to make a paying investment of him then he be can be put on the market as a finished product in this connection it mar baynot not be out of place to say lay a word in regard to the our cur rent fear that our kansas kans and nebraska market for stockers ers and feeders is gone for this year I 1 consider this a hardship for them but a bles sinar in for us da an aa the matter now stands we raise the hop hoga and cattle and sell them sit at the lowest figure u re while they are yet imma immature tho those people buy them and feed them well for a short period and sell them at the top price at the ruling price ealce of grain they can buy both our liaga and grain ship them there feed them make them up into hams and bacon and ship them back how long the utah farmer will stand this thin I 1 for one am unable to say the utah farmer alone can answer surely not many years yearn more A A MILLS supt bupt farm exp eap work aarl college eap exp station logan utah |
