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Show Cattle Feeding at the Missouri Agricultural Agri-cultural College. A communication from the Missouri Agricultural college says: A carload of two-year-old high-grade steers fed by the Agricultural Experiment Station Sta-tion at the university, averaging 1,466 pounds, sold in Chicago this week at $6.85, which was more than $1 above the top of the .market for that day, and Is the record price for cattle in any market this year. These cattle were purchased for the fancy New Tork trade. A live stock paper of Chicago Chi-cago referred to this sale as follows: "Standing up.Jike the. Eiffel Towel above other sales to-day was one of a load of fifteen prize Hereford steers averaging 1,466 pounds; which sold at. $6.85;' It was an exceptional load of cattle and the best seen here since the Fat Stock Show. They were fed by the experiment station at .Cojum-. bia, Missouri, under the supervision of Dean H. J. Waters. The load attracted, at-tracted, considerable attention for being be-ing so far superior to anything else on. the market." These steers were purchased in the vicinity of Columbia at a cost of $4.10 for the feeding experiments conducted at the station, in which the feeding value of cottonseed meal, linseed meal and bran,, in combination with corn, was compared witu corn alone, on bluegrass pasture. They have been on full feed since July 1st These cattle cat-tle were also used by the students in the stock judging exercises required of the students in the agricultural college, col-lege, and were used to impress upon these young men the importance of handling only high-grade stock. Four of the best steers in the original bunch purchased by the station were taken out last spring to go with a load of show cattle that won at the International Inter-national Fat Stock Show at Chicago this fall. These steers were considered consid-ered by all authorities to be the best and to be carrying the finest finish of any animals that have been on the market since the Fat Stock Show, and were considered by some to have been capable of winning in that contest. The station now has eighty high-grade high-grade calves with which it is comparing compar-ing the influence of age upon the cost of beef. One-third of these calves will be marketed next fall as yearlings, year-lings, another third the following fall as two-year-olds, and the third bunch will be carried until they are three years old, a careful record being kept of all the food consumed during the progress. of the experiment.' The United Uni-ted States government is co-operating with the station in conducting this experiment and has a special officer located here to collect data and report the results to the government, Nebraska Live Stock Breeders. The annual meeting of the Nebraska Nebras-ka Improved Live Stock Breeders' Association As-sociation was held. Jan. 21 at the State University at Lincoln. The attendance at-tendance was good and the interest excellent. Among the papers read at the meeting was one by Prof. Smith on the feeding value of wheat He declared it to be more efficient than corn in the feeding of steers, and that 100 pounds of wheat would equal 105 pounds of corn for that purpose. A very good paper on ergot was read by Prof. J. L. Sheldon. Ergot contains properties that are poisonous to man and beast When cattle have been fed through the winter on hay containing ergot, the poison begins to manifest itself towards spring. It reduces the cuculation to such an extent that the blood collects in the extremities of the animal, such as the tail and the ears. The preventive is to' see that no grass containing ergot is eaten by cattle and that none of it is cut for hay. Dr. W. H. Dalrymple of Louisiana Louis-iana talked on the immunizing of northern cattle. He expressed his confidence in the value' of inoculating northern cattle against Texas fever when taken . South. Other ; papers were read by well-known professors and stock raisers. ' ' |