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Show ! TKST FOOD VALUES I EXPERIMENT AT KANSAS AORI- ' ' CULTURAL COLLEGE. Facta Learned Ars of Much Vslue Is' j Csttle Raisers Wsrmtna the ' - Drinking Water Is Absolutely Ntc- i easary in Successful Feeding. t f ' , In the latter part nf October, 1900. ' t tho KautuiH experiment station put )t Into the f I Ima U0 head of catvoe ' that had Juat I n weaned Thoy .'j f . were divided lulu Iota, to test the vol- J ue of alfalfa hay. prairie bay, corn, V Kafir corn and soy beans in the pro- i i duel Ion of baby beef. 5 l . . Sixty head of heifers were pur- : chased in the Kansas City atoek- ; ynrds. weighed an average of 411 ; f pounds each, cost $4.25 per hundred- , I weight at the yards, and coat on av- j f, erage of lis:.'", per head delivered In j 4 tho college reed lots. These were J k range calves grade Shorthorn, Here- , I ford and Angus. Fifty head wore I purchased of farmera near Manhat. t tnn, and had been kept with their ; I dama through tho summer In small ; 1 pastures. Twenty bead were mixed- ! F bred calves that had been purchased j around Manhattun when born, and I had been raised by the. college by 1 hand, ten being raised on creamery skim milk and ten on whole milk. ; i Tho rnlvca were vaccinated lo pre- ... " vent blackleg. Without this sufinnard I uo would hot have dared to under- j take thla oxpurlmi nt. j The cnlvea were fed seven months. ' At the closo of the experiment, May f i7, tho entire lot averugml 800 j pounda per head In the college foed I lots. The shrinkage In shipping to I Kansas City wss II per cent. Thirty- j twn steers averaged h:1H pounda and ! sold at f 40 per H pounds, seventy- j four heifers averaged 7!iK pounds and ( sold for r.Xb. and eighteen holfnre averaged 741 pounds and sold for r,.iri. Six head of heifers went aa I springers. The packing company which slaughtered tho calvea made the for . lowing report: j - 8J steer calves Live weight US pounds; dressed weight, 480 pounds; tallow, 02 pcuuds; dressed weight, 67.3 per cent; tallow, .l per oonL 74 heifer calves Live wolgM, 761 pounds; dreaaed weight, 431 pounds; tallow, 49 pounds; drnssed, weight, per cent; tsllow, 6.2 per osnt 18 heifer calves Live weight, 741 pounds; dreaaed weight, 420 pounda; tallow, 49 pounds; dressed weight, 66 per cent; tallow, I I per oent . The calves ware fed twice dally, beginning at 7 a. m. and at 4:10 p. m. , jus), ,ta.,, ls?--i.r rtx Tr-r,""i,,;"; were mrrmnitZf mm !m!jt"M did , ' ail the work of sating In daylight V Koch lot wns given at each feeding all I the grain and roughage It would eat i up clean within three hour! after ( feeding. In each lot the grain wai ( fod mixed with the roughage and the i roughage was fed whole. Fine barrel ! salt was kept In boxes under the I sheds, where the calves had free ao-cess ao-cess at all times. Each lot of oalvee was sheltered with a common board shed, closod on the north, open to the ' , south. I Water was supplied In tanks reg- ! ulaled by float valves so that the tanks were kept full and the calvea could drink at WIL Frtl December J to April 1 a tauk heimr was kept going In each tauk and the water was kept at a temperature of about fifty degrees. j This showed an average consume- 6 Hon of K 8 pounda of coal dally per J tank. With ooal at 14 per Ion, this I would make the dally cost of warming warm-ing a tauk a small fraction over S ouuta por day. A healer will warm , water for forty bead appa-ently aa cheaply as for five or ten head. We j found tho previous whiter that It required re-quired no more labor to keep a tank ' heater running than It did lo keep 1 tbe Ice out of a tank not heated. We ' would urge every feeder to use a tank, benter. A successful feeder of long experience recently made the statement state-ment thst gains In feeding follow very closely the amount of water drank by the fattening animal; the ' larger tho quantity of water drank the greater the gains, provided there la no unnatural stimulation to drinking. drink-ing. With clean, palnlablo watnr, froe from Ire, kept where the animal can drink at will, the animal drinks often, and each twenty four hour! consumes a large quantity, but at no time Is the stomach overloaded or unduly un-duly chilled. Tho coat of using tank heater is trilling and tha return are good. The remarkable feature of thla aa perlnient wss the small amount of grain required to make 1"0 pounds ol gala. The skim milk calves fed al- ' falta hay and corn averaged 100 poiiuds of gain for only 4:19 pounds of corn, end this In seven months' feeding. feed-ing. The other lots f"d alfalfa and ' corn required 470 pounds of oorn for ; 100 pounda of gain. |