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Show wir red tM 1HTEW COWS Experts Favor Corn Silage and Wheat Straw With Hay or Cottonseed Meal. EXPENSE GF RAISING CALVES Experiments Conducted in Blue-Grass Regions of Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia Rations Used for Cattle. (Prepared by the U S. Department of Agriculture.) Com silage and wheat straw with either mixed hay, soy-bean liny or cut-tonseed cut-tonseed meal is a much cheaper ration ra-tion for wintering lteef-hreedinj; cows than shock corn, mixed hay and wheat straw as tried out in feeding experiments recently carried .on liy K, V. Siieets and E. H. Tuckwifler of the bureau of animal industry, and described de-scribed in Department Bulletin 1024, "Feeding Experiments With Grade Beef Cows Raising Calves," which lias just been issued by the United States Department of Agrieullure. The work described In the bulletin has to do with the advantages of certain practices, prac-tices, tile economy of a mnjiher of rations ra-tions and the cost of raising calves to weaning age. It applies to the blue-grass region of the Appalachian mountains, a region that furnishes most of the grass-finished beef for the Eastern markets. Conditions Similar in Other States. The farm on which the feeding was lone is In the southeastern part of West Virginia, but the conditions there are similar to those in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Ten-nessee. The conclusions also apply In part to other nearby regions. The rations used for the four lots of cows were : Corn silage, mixed hay and wheat straw; corn silage, soybean soy-bean hay and wheat straw ; corn silage, cottonseed meal and wheat straw ; and shock corn, mixed hay and wheat stoaw. As mentioned in the first paragraph, corn silnge and wheat straw, with either mixed liny, soy-bean hay or cottonseed meal, is a cheaper ration than shock corn, mixed buy and wheat straw for wintering win-tering beef cows. As tlie cows fed on the mixed hay and soy-bean rations produced a larger calf crop than those fed the cottonseed meal, the average cost per head of raising their calves was practically G per cent less. As sources of protein, mixed hay and soybean soy-bean hay, where they are grown successfully, suc-cessfully, have additional advantages in that they can be raised on the farm, while cottonseed meal must be pur-' pur-' chased. Cost of Raising Calves. Actual costs of raising calves vary with the time and locality, but by I L t,Z i vi 'C ? 5 k i 4 4 x j - - v - I r,, t u - f f v k .-- v w . vl.ai.ut j... Virginia I'asxurc. study of tlie tables in this bulletin any farmer In this blue-grass region may determine with considerable accuracy what it will cost him to grow feedei calves to tlie weaning age. Tlie bulletin bul-letin should be studied in connect inn with Department Ilulletin 1042. "Effect "Ef-fect of Winter Rations on Pasture Gains of Calves." These bulletins may be obtained by addressing the Department De-partment of Agriculture at Washing ton. |
