Show RAISING CATTLE TOO specialized there Is too much tendency to look upon open live stock production us its a distinct specialized industry that la Is separate stud and apart ir other oilier farm oper attolis with no influence on those op dillons striations lons says 11 P ithak ilusak head of tile the animal husbandry depart wea it college of of illinois under economic conditions rondi lions live lire stock block production product luu Is mi all essential purt part of american agriculture statistics bhoj that the elie agrical euial income fruin from more thad half of the total land urea isrea of the united states state in ig income from pasture pu sture also that the products from about 70 per cent of our crop urea area are used lu in the ella leeding ceding or of live stock livia live stock production Is the lie through which the products of much of our agi agricultural operations reach tile the markets of tile the world while profitable production of crops depends depend upon liberal utilization of crop products through live stock live stock production ling has become more and more a 11 business while this as illustrated by elie alie production of cahen in tile the southwest and currying carrying of them as stockers lookers for a fear or more in the grust regions to the north of lite hie breedin ing grounds unil arld the final fill folling in corti corn belt ivri feed lots might make fac or national economy it dues does add jao 0 o the hazards of the enterprise e froni from the standpoint of alie individual operator PIL belt bell failers might inight reduce this hazard and at the same annie little lime find profit rot for more of tile hie hages produced on their farkas birins it if they maintained bained their own breeding heidi i of beef cattle that this his is a possibility Is shown py fj results of a series of investigations by the college of agriculture university of illinois in the maintenance of a breeding herd with a four 3 bear ear rotation oo of cot coin it corn vats oata seeded to sweet clover and sweet clover it was possible to maintain one cow to every four acres in the rotation without taking a single acre out of the rotation for permanent pasture or without using a single bushel of grain produced for several years the college has bern been maintaining one cow to the acre on sweet clover pasture e grown in tills rotation the second years growth of sweet clover Is utilized for this purpose from early spring until early full and the sweet cloer lu in the aftermath of tile the outs oats stubble is used for fall pasture on a few occasions it lias has been necessary to supplement this pasture for two or three weeks before the aftermath in the oats stubble Is far enough advanced adva to pasture fled and in extremely wet falls it has seenia seemed d advisable to remove cows from elie first bears ears seeding without utilizing all of the available pasture pas lure ln in order to prevent serpoui ser ioui 3 damage to the stand Ho however weer in most years a combi combination nation of one acre of spring seeding sweet clover in oats and one acre of second years growth sweet clover will yield about one and a half times as much pasturage as one acre of our be best st blue grabs pasture winter maintenance of the experimental herd was based on the utilization of silage made from the stover of shocked corn about half of the I 1 corn a the rotation was cut and shucked chucked shuc ked and aad when tile ears ear S were mature malure mas enough to crib the shocked corn was run through a husking machine nith alth a cutter head instead of a shredder head and the elie cut stover blown into the silo where about one pound of water was added for each pound of cut cui stover this makes lakes a silage which can be used for maintenance of the breeding herd sixty pounds of this silage with one pound of nitrogenous concentrates a head a day gave about us as good results as 40 pounds of normal corn silage with the ears allied along with the stalks this method of handling cattle makes it possible to maintain a breeding herd of one cow to eiery four I 1 acres la in the rotation on tile the by prod i act of that rotation rota tinn during the course of the experiment the average yields of grain on oil this experimental tract have materially increased |