Show THE COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN by MORGAN P mckay mervay FEEDING PLANS inasmuch as there Is plenty of hay tn in millard county this year for sup plying all the winter needs of live stock and a surplus for outside teed feed ing it behooves each farmer to be gin making plans for securing some sort of livestock to use up tip this sur plus teed feed there Is a possibility of of securing funds from two tao different forces orches or cees to buy the feed used tor for cat tie tle or lambs providing the farmer has sufficient hay or grain to feed the livestock will probably be done by a number of experienced feeders in the county there Is an other possibility open which might be of interest to a number of farmers who have only hay that Is want ering livestock on a share basis in order to form some basis of judgment as to the cost of winter ing animals the following figures are given based on the experience of a number of feeders over the state when good alfalfa Is available ardi nary stoel steel I 1 attle might be carried aver over nicely by feeding from 1 15 to 24 pounds of hay daily this of course varies with the size and type of live stock fed where some grain is to be fed 12 to 18 pounds of hay may be fed ath 2 to 4 pounds of grain it is ordinarily figured that one lounh of grain will replace one and a halt half pounds of alfalfa hay with i liking cows more hay and also more in ore grain is required to w anter them successfully 20 to 30 pound of hay Is required daily where 4 to 5 pounds of hay is fed or 26 to 38 of hay where no grain is us ed with our good alfalfa hay in this county it Is a question or not net it pays to feed grain unless it can be obtained very cheaply ewes might be wintered very sue suc on pounds of alfalfa hay and one and a half pounds penn ds of grain or 4 pounds of hay daily in figuring your fattening lations tor for lambs the following figures tak len from the delta lamb feeding ex pediment perl peri ment conducted in 1930 might be of interest the average for 12 jots lots of lambs fed at that time were given 3 ibs lbs of hay dally daily and 7 ib of concentrate to make just a lit tie tle easier figuring however you can count on feeding 3 pounds of hay and 1 ib lb of grain tor for the entire teed feed ing period the best gains that have ever been made in the delta district are from a ration of alfalfa hay and whole barley these are easily ob tal tai here anid and should be the ba sis of all feeding operations ever in a more recent experiment conducted at monroe utah it was found that by a little wheat bran or beet molasses cheaper and better gains were made and that the amps lambs which ready tor for market as a whole were in very better condition in cases where beet mo me lasses was fed the grain ration was cut down slightly and the lay hay ration remains the same no special feed rack need be made tor for the feeding of molasses just J an ordinary coal scuttle may be used and a thin strip of molasses spread in the grain troughs before the grain is added in th s way the lambs re main clean they eat up their grain better and the results in all ments so tar far conI ducted have shown a marked superiority in the llila ie le suits beet molasses Is one of the cheapest feeds we can use at the present time especially it it is ship ped in car load lots in a recent trip to sc pio pla a nam num her ber of cattle men of that di district were contacted and they expressed a a keen desire to get together with the feeders of the rest of millard county on some sort of arrangement anan arian gement for the feeding of livestock this winter A ti p is being planned at the present time to get the feeders and the live stock men together anyone inter ested in getting cattle under thio thi ar ran Tan gement should get in touch biti wit i the county agricultural agent tu u excursion may be sakne son e time li LL the first part of october |