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Show ! FARM NEWS NOTES I I BY LEW MAR PRICE j County Agent j Experimental Results Valuable to Beaver County In a concise article in the Utah Farmer this week Professor Maynard of the U. S. A. C. Extension service gives the results of a feeding experiment experi-ment in which the value of steamed bone meal, which is a concentrated i supplement, was determined when led in conjunction with the sugar beet by-products in a ration with alfalfa hay and grain. The fact that sugar beet by-pro-; ducts were used in this ration does not make the tests of no value to us with our rations. In an analysis of our feeds we find a short-: age of phosphorus; and our stock on. heavy rations are found to respond ( readily to a phosphorus supplement.! In the experiment reported they; found that gains were increased 74. per cent and cost of gains were reduced re-duced 37 per cent, 1279 pounds of bone meal effecting a saving of S1035. ! One-tenth pound of steamed bone meal per head daily raised the daily gain from 1.5 pounds to 2.6 pounds per calf, and decreased the feed cost per 100 pounds gain from $2.42 to S1.52. The average total gain in the 129-day feeding test was 336 pounds for the 100 steers receiving the bone meal and 193 pounds for those receiving re-ceiving everything but the bone meal. Range stockmen, both sheep and beef cattle, report extremely good results from the use of cottonseed cake, because the stock will eat so ravenously of all available forage. There is no discounting this very valuable feed, especially if the roughage, rough-age, which is the major part of the ration of range stock, is carbonaceous. carbon-aceous. But it is found that the very great stimulus given the appetite of those range stock is the phosphorus content of the cotton cake, and, with prevailing prices of corn and cotton cake, equally good results can be secured se-cured by feeding corn and bone meal, and at a greatly reduced cost. Detailed figures of the experiment by Professor Maynard, reported ibove. can be secured by anyone interested by writing the Extension Service, U. S. A. C, or your county agent. Plan This Year's Cropping System Now It is not too soon to start planning this year's crops. This is one of the (Continued on last page) |