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Show POTATO-FED STEERS I PROFITABLE Conserving potatoes that would otherwise oth-erwise have been allowed to rot. by feeding them t" cattle. Is a new meth-od meth-od of conservation practiced by A. M. Russell of QUI, Colo. Mr. Gill mar- i Ice ted the steers at 116.10 average Weight 1117 pounds, making a very j handsome profit on the deal, and he 19 convinced that conservation Days. Some weeks ago Mr. Russell marketed mar-keted the last of his cattle fed during1 the winter from his feed lot's He bad a lot of potatoes In his cellar, and a week or two later he went to Greeley to see what he could sell them for. After going from one dealer to another an-other be became convinced that it would be Impossible to move fh po-tato, po-tato, and that unless he did some thing vith them himself they would rot in his cellar before he could sell, them. "Well, 1 am not going to let these potatoes rot," he said to the last deal ei he talked to, "but m going to con-ert con-ert them Into food of some kind " The! next day he got on the train and wtnt to Denver and bought a carload of Steers, paying 11.65 for them lie took them home and began feeding them potatoes and straw, and that Is I all the ration they have had during the six weeks they were on feed. "They did not get on full feed until about two weeks ago." said Mr. Russell, Rus-sell, "but for two weeks have been! eating nicely and gaining rapidly. I fed the potatoes raw. The s'cers made a gain during the six weeks on feed j of 81 pounds each and the gain in price of $1.15 per cvvt. makes a very 1 nice profit on the deal a proin ol more than $50 per head, which pays j a good price for the potatoes and In addition converts into food value a lot of product that I would have been compelled to have allowed to rot for want of a market." Mr. Russell was highly pleased with thfl price received for his steers and with his experiment in feeding them potatoes an experiment which others who have potatoes they cannot market might follow with protit to themselvs. Exchange. rvn |