| Show MOST IMPORTANT THAT GREATER USE BE MADE OF CHEAPER FEEDS 95 14 4 1111 1 4 Z N I 1 fi I 1 ordinary wire fencing used to Rain torce concrete construction of a silo to far farmers and stockmen in feeding feuding biff cattle economically lur dur ing the coining winter specialists of the blates lit of agri 1 culture point out tho the mid mcd for a lib crul eral ube u of roii gluie ohp went situation in lie the statts a maximum of in fee feeding it if production lg Is to be maintained in ili the face of nigh high costs for feed and lal lat or of the tile follow economy should le be ti tie e keynote in production discretion must be used so that cco eco noni mill bo be con il latent with nith good ruins A ration might bo be so economical as to mcimely maintain the nil animal linal but tills this would not be economy when gain in ili weight eight was saas lie the object sought greater use of cheaper feed feeds at the present when grain and concentrates are so it IL ie 4 all the more important that a u bo be made of cheaper clie aper feeds the cheap er r feeds are those raised on the farin and onslo cansis primarily ut of hages then greatti economy will ill depend upon a granter of fcc properly balanced with ith sonie or erohin in concentrate it should be borne tome lu ili mind that a balanced ration Is not nece sailly the tile most economical A ration having a nutritive ration of I 1 Q 1 I might produce the greatest dally daily gains on a two bear i earold slier yet it maht show better judgment and more profit to fet fed 1 I a ration v with ith a ratio of 18 produced by utilization utilisation of a giester gi eater amount of cheaper hages and a lesser amount of high priced concentrates the practice of high priced feeds and not making a full use of hages is quite fineral U the corn belt in some of the tile middle western estern s very little straw la is used for feid but aliv nil all for bedding quite often the cattle are al allowed loed to run around the straw kotack resulting in a waste maste of at leosi least 50 per cant of the straw straw strai as dry roughage forma forms a very prominent place in a ration for cattle either in the fattening lot or when fed to stockers and feeders in some sections of indiana oat and wheat hent straw make up the entire dry roughage for the greater grenter part of the feeding perica in certain parts of nebraska where here alfalfa Is produced abundantly lie the straw Is used only for bedding men el en where here alfalfa fa hoy tiny Is fed cattle will ill eat more or lesa less of good straw it if trey hae haie access to it it Is to a food idea to keep kap some adraw before them let the cattle alek it over and re rm what Is left for bedding wate waste no straw now Is a good time to look at your straw stack trim up the tile stack by raking down don the sides and arid properly topping so a to shed the fall full rains uy by spending a day on bour our straw attacks nw nv you will fao many a ton of straw which can be used in replacing mn considerable hay next winter in in pome states mo it of the coin Is cut shocked and blackd oui out by hand later in the tile edason why not et a shredder do the husking and have a roughage left the greater part of which aich will be relished by the cattle hip ilip shredded fodder which Is refund by the cattle makes one of the viry vi ry best bedding materials corn com fodder while it Is a it good roughage in 1 not an one there Is a very large in handling A large tag tagi of the leair are lost and be the corn coni wilt la Is about all the cattle get from the en elf tire corn plant atun our rodd fodder er through a shredder feed the tile car corn and the greater part of the corn plant will mill b h utilized util lied corn tod fodder ho however eer ian tali be used genously at the beginning of the tile feeding period in the fall or earl winter range bittle that have nei r sten turn or ir grain of any kind can be put or feed moro rapidly by starting on oil green tyreen or cured corn fodder this kind of cattle will begin nibbling at the tile lemes end and gradually get to eating the im tim t on uie the other hand it ear car corn corr waa as placed before them it would be das da a before they mould begin to cat it 14 the use of legume hoys buys where grown on the farm will obviate the use of high priced concel good hay however hoever Is high priced and should be fed in inch such a a as to avoid any waste co corn stalks in the field after the ithe orn ba has v been removed should be util wl by turning a sufficient clent dumber number of cattle on tin in ili to cl el air ir flient up coin eoin before r fare arc victir and anti sno a come protect content contents of silo ilic ilip most inot so ro fur far us as allf litt f production pro luction I 1 li coneL med ts Is att it to hi be and that 1 silage Sl lait Is I 1 no longer a climp fall but ili ill tin ost ff e of the word there Is 14 no chal I 1 id alac Is inorio orth lit it tile fl aiom oin 10 to 11 a ton it pending pon lion local labor conditions and upon the lie ond 1011 loll JOI of corn ln l n nt at the ae e bricis jt it wahib ono one of the lie most inot econ onil nl al cuttle cattle filda an fn da mure more cattle can call be handled on oil if jheri lun farm area ill ans the lulic I 1 lie of HIP the rough nie more feed enn be stored per cubic foot toot of space than by nn an otier ieans crittle tin be fill it anul on mth ft ath a andall of a concentrated protein eted such ag cotlon cottons td or lin bed intal and a little dr boughn e such us its ont oat straw strai Stock eia and fod ers call be wintered hit ered on silage nione alone |
