| Show RAISING AISING CATTLE A TOO SPECIALIZED i There Is too much tendency to tonic look n live stock production as u dis- dis I j ct specialized Industry tint that Is sep sep- ate wate and from other farm furm oper- oper l lions dons with no Influence on those op op- r f i says H. H l P. P Husk Rusk h head ud of or the HIA husbandry department college collee if agriculture i University of Illinois Under present economic conditions Cre We e stock production Is an absolutely vy 8 part purt of or American u agriculture Y show that the th only ta nl al income from more than half of ot J total land urea area of ot the United t t C tes Is Income from rom pasture also alson Tc n the products J from about 70 per lier pert Et t of or our crop area al are used used In the eding n of or live stock Live Lh stool stock pro pro- action Is the avenue through which jl N products of ot much of lit our oua al I operations reach the he markets of ot ott t world while profitable pro production 3 crops depends upon liberal utilla rn n of ot crop products lIlts through live livek livestock Ck k jl stock production has become re and more a u specialized business I ile this as us illustrated d the production of calves lu 10 the t t est nud and currying carrying of them us as for In th the theiss a n year cur or more wore ass iss regions to the north of ot the breed breed- grounds and amI the lie final nIal finishing In belt 5 belt feed teed lots might make for 01 na na- r 1 C pal 1 economy It does doc ud add to tho the tards ards of the enterprise from the of ot the individual operator Corn belt farmers might reduce this 1 Id I'd rand and at the same time Ume find c at for tor more more of the pro pro- cd ed d on their farms if It the they main main- d their own breeding herds of Eu H f cattle That this Is la n a possibility f t gown own by results of a n series of Ini InE In- In fig i E obligations by the college of or University of ot Illinois In n the theof t 1 of a n breeding herd With jur ur year e u rotation of corn corn oats ed to sweet clover and sweet clo- clo d lt It was possible to maintain one oneto oneto to every eer four acres in the rotation 1 nII ut taking a n single ncr acre out of ot the tile f for tor permanent pasture or Ds Ded r ut tit using a u stogie single bushel of grain fA e Sit Jt aced J or or several sC years the tho colle college e hasp has hns p maintaining one cow to the acre Tweet Jeet clover er pasture grown In to this loll n. n The rue second years year's growth of ot h co clover cor r Is utilized for this pur- pur Jur- Jur c n arrom from om m early spring until euI early full he ie le sweet clover er In the aftermath N D a e oats stubble Is used for fall full pa pasOn pusa pus pas FL S iX On u few occasions it has been gar sary y to supplement this I pasture r 0 or three weeks before the aft aft- h h Ii In the oats stubble Is far I I h advanced nd to pasture and ina lu in a I Il Imely nely wet falls It t has hus seemed adle adle ad- ad Tie le to remove remo cows from the first I Sn U Cra s j seeding g without utilizing utilising g all nil of ot rr pasture In order to pre pre- l serious damage b e to the stand ver er in most years a combination e e acre of spring seeding sweet In to oats and aud one acre ocre of ot second secondi E ant i B growth grO swe sweet t clover will yield one and u half times as much 1 t rage iise ge as one acre of our best blue blue- blu pasture Ilter maintenance of the l herd was bused based on the S t f silage made mode from the stover t died cited corn About half hult of the Lak Jn n the rotation was vas cut and mod and when the Ule ears curs were mn ma- Chough ln to crib the he shocked corn cOIn 1 pate oale Jm un din through a 11 husking buskins machine e N te cutter head hend Instead of n a shreds shreds' shred shred- l s' s coped d and the cut stover blown In Inid In- In ld id- id fm Q r silo where about one pound of ut that was us added for each pound of ot the W bOf vei e This makes n a silage which J d t i tt r g U used satisfactorily for m maine main main- ainie ain ain- Ie e c cot t e el of ot the breeding herd hord Sixty A to lou Ion iri Dor of this silage with one pound the t concentrates a n head bead a u arat rat lIlt part e jve e about n as good oo results ts as asto to 40 he be p rote l of t nor normal corn cOln silage with th the theor e or pt If bri bloed Joed ulong along with the stalks method of ot handling cattle mot possible to maintain a breed breed- d of one oue cow to every four tour 1 rd d eri e en the rotation on the prod by-prod- a 1 OU ace In l Fo JJ f that rotation During the ther r r Sd JO uR gt the experiment the average e eI I f grain on ou this experimental ia save r JIve materially Increased s 's S mi 1 |
