Show the livestock Sil galion by L A mcnaughton Mc los lo angelou angeles feb ibin IB 15 in answer to the growing public demand for small email cuts of 0 poet beef from tidy well finished carcasses university of california authorities are enczur aging demonstrations dt creep feeding of at calves on several ranch ranches in n the state this method consists 0 of putting in feed troughs near bear central watering avid salt sait ticks licks and putting in fences that tant will not vermit permit the cows cow to rain gain access to the teed feed but with openings through bich the calves can can got get to the teed food the cives alves are given to grain brain feed rations when four to six of age while cows remain on pasture thus the calves continue to nurse nuree their mothers but at tha same time obtain concentrate feeds at times alae it to la neca nary to supplement I 1 pasture daguro feeds eed tor for the cows cowa la in order to maintain a good anink flow A very small mall amount of teed feed la 10 required per calf yet tho the little follow biake excellent and rapid gains until after a period of seven or eight months the calves are almost t large M their mothers particularly it thoy they happen to be first calf heffers heifers of the usual art arl soma iiona type in going oyer over a recent demonstration we find aln that the calves at the outset mo ate only 68 pound of teed feed per day nl at the next month the average increased to pounds while during the clos clo log ing months of at the test the calru required to pounds per day after eight monab months of creep feeding one lot weighed pounds and the youngest you ngit tot lot pounds they were then placed in feed lots and the cows turned back on ra pasture sture the calves gained an av ar erase of better than 25 26 pounds a day eating what they wanted from elf feeders after 74 days in the feedlot feed lot the he oldest lot tin nn ti n n of which was waa yet a year old averaged pounds atter after a three por per cent shrink not every ranch Is equipped tor for creep feeding of calves important appear to bol be well bred cows good quality thick and deep bodied bulls bulb central watering good pasture mixed home grown feeds of good quality given these requirements creep feeding appears to offer an economical meang of producing choice light beet beef which to Is in the greatest demand at the markets and ell ells at relatively higher prices the importance of good breeding breading and good quality fw feeds can hardly be b over emphasized emphasis ed |