Show BEEF CATTLE IN COHN BELT STATES F 7 7 4 47 4 V A V 9 W j f 0 jr 9 V lot HERD OF HEREFORDS ON WESTERN PASTURE no from the united states department of agriculture that cattle in most caseb add to the farm income in the corn belt Is indicated by the lie results of a investigation vesti gation conducted by the united bantes of agriculture aa as part of a study of 0 tho the meat situation la in which its specialists have been engaged for some time the direct profit from the raisins raising of calves in this section the averages seem to establish la Is usually small but the investigator point out that there fire other factors which make tho the practice more advantageous than would mould appear at first sight among these advantages are the tact fact chrit live the stock on the farm fam p provides 0 o a home market and a mean menna of utilization of farm roughage some of which might be wasted masted if it not fed and anti the uso use of pasture pastures which could not be employed emp loed profitably in any other nay may live stock also alfords a ready home market for certain other crops chich nt at times would havo have to be hauled considerable distance to ho be sold old I 1 binally the presence of live tock on the farm ghee gives productive employment throughout the sear car to labor which nt at certain seasons might other otherwise mise ba die idle live stork also gives some interest in capital invested on n equip equipment nent which hieb would mould produce nothing nothing if not utilized nt at nil all the fertilizing value of manure also must be considered when the these re factors are taken into consideration oen even though there appears to be little or no profit as by cost figr fl figures gr it Is believed that in most instances the farm income Is grenter greater because of cattle having been kept on the farm the keeping of live stock it ere fore la Is to bo be recommended on farms having large quantities of cheap roughage available or having land which can bo be lest utilized as pasture summary of result results tho the figures of costs cited by tho the investigators are purely averages baa bas ed cd on actual farnia farms and herds invest rated gated the investigator ra obtained 10 1914 and 1015 COCO BOW records from frow farma farm 11 in indiana illinois minn IQ missouri south dakota nebraska Te braska and huso records dealt with 14 cons balls find and 2 1 culves calves produced from them oc of which 2023 23 were classed as oil baby beef classification of record records these were more arranged in six groups based baaed on six distinct practices follow loaded pd by the farmers of thia this region these are 1 bolfe farms where nil all the cow cows are kept strictly for beef he except baby beet beef in which there la Is no eala sale 0 of f milk and butter 2 kaby baby beef farms devoted to the production of high grade calva calves fattened and anti sold at from 12 to IS 18 months of age 4 1 dual purpose farms on which nil all the rows cows are milked anil and the calved enned w lined at birth and raised on skim milk 4 mixed farm farms where the beet best cov cone a are milked their calves being at birth while title calves from froin othir cows run with their dams thia this I 1 Is a combination of beet beef and dual purpose 5 partially milked farms on which calves are not weaned but on walli a part of the milk la Is drawn from the cow cov the calf taking the remainder ma inder 0 double nursing damns when soine of the cows coms are milked and that calves riven to other cows of result results the following anini narles are based on these six classifications and ast as given laven ns as averages from tho the record ut the farms and live stock actually 1 I the a are averages nver agea ages for th the entire stu studied lied and the rinder act bear in mind that there are wide mide divergences in coat in the several steles sti stes for hia this reason the report after considering the general problem deals in great detail with mith tit the range of coats costs in the saver U states and the averages for the several sections the follow iner are the more important facts cited la im the summery pry |