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Show I FARM NEWS NOTES I j By LEW MAR PRICE j j County Agent 1 Beaver County Feeds Fine For i Fattening Livestock Utah is fortunate in having a wonderful won-derful variety of fattening feds, and feeders who take advantage of th.s variety will find it in itself to be a valuable lactor in securing heavy gains at low cost. Corn silage and beet molasses are excellent fattening feeds with which to add variety lO the ration. Beaver county feeders could secure the beet molasses at an economical cost. In fattening lambs with barley and alfalfa this grain ana hay combination combina-tion may be greatly improved by the addition of a half pound of sugijr beet molasses or a half pound of wheat bran per head daily. In many instances this fall, barley at 45 cents per cwt. and alfalfa at per ton are being used in fattening operations. Last winter each ton of beet molasses added to a barley and alfalfa ration in lamb fattening experiments ex-periments conducted at Monroe saved sav-ed or replaced 944 pounds of barley, 2636 pounds of alfalfa and 39 pound i of salt. Even at the present extremely extre-mely low prices of grain and hay this beet molasses has a fee replacement va'ue equal to eleven dollars per ton, nearly twice its cost not to mention its conditioning value in the ration, which has proved very worth while. Wheat bran when added to a barley alfalfa ration in a recent feeding tost increased gains on the lambs by 5.2 pounds per head in a little over 100 days. Two pounds'' of corn silage per day, per 100 lbs. liveweight, may be counted upon to improve and cheapen a barley-alfalfa ration for fattening lambs or steers. Wheat bran has been used with excellent success also to supplement a barley-alfalfa ration. In a recent feeding experiment the use of approximately one-half pound of wheat bran with barley, wet beet pulp, and alfalfa hay increased tiie gain per lamb by 8.5 pounds at the same time decreasing the feed cost and increasing the selling price per cwt. Cull Potatoes for Livestock Cull potatoes, when fed in rations to livestock, are comparable to good corn silage. They contain about 20 per cent dry matter, which is largely made up of starch. This means that they are high in available energy for the amount of dry matter they contain. con-tain. Potatoes may be fed raw to cattle, horses, swine, and 3hccp. Although raw potatoes have u ily about two-thirds two-thirds the value of '.ooked potatoes when fed to pigs, they have proved to be just as good as cooked potatoes ; when fed to cattle or sheep. Potatoes should not renhicp ninio than half the grain ration in fattening fatten-ing pigs. They have an acrid, with a tendency to increase the digestive juices in the stomach and intestines. "For this reason they should be gradually grad-ually introduced into the lation. Alternate freezing and thawing of potatoes causes a fermentation of the starches and sugars, ,iml a concentration concentra-tion of a piosonous material, making them unsafe for livestock feed. With potatoes as cheap as they are this year, it is advisable to cull lather lath-er closely and feed the culls to livestock, live-stock, leaving a high grade that will sell more readily and at a more satisfactory satis-factory price. The Red Cross By Director William Peterson, Utah State Agricultural College Extension Service Prior to November 10 the Red Cross organization had distributed j during this year 59,384 barrels of floui , valued at $150,000; 55,600,582 ' pounds of stock feed, valued at $450,-000; $450,-000; 169,360 yards of cotton cloth valued at $16,930. In addition 14,010 I cotton garments have been made up and distributed to the needy. It is evident that if everyone of the 100,000 families in Utah should take 'out a Red Cross membership at $1 each, it would take more than six years to pay back to the organization ; the amount which ha already been distributed in this state, j These figures do not take into consideration con-sideration the amount of food distri-I distri-I buted during this time of shrunken j incomes. The distribution of food and feed in Utah was fundamentally necessary I in view of the 1931 drouth and finan- cial reverses. Hundreds of families which were (Concluded on last page) |