Show ff S if t S f V county agent news v by leroy C funk agent V y ff ff y if y horace harace allred of roosevelt in an interview with the county agent gays that he was very much interested in the statement made by D W pittman of the utah agricultural experiment station anat the early pasteur ing of alfalfa is very detrimental to the stand aid the tutu e hay prospects mr air allred bays that his experience peri ence has demonstrated that it is not advisable to pasture alfalfa in the spring such pasturing weakens the plants packs the soil goll and injures the stand early spring plants chatain about ninety per cent wate milk contains eighty seven per cent early spring plants because of fleir high water content do not supply sufficient it nourishment for high producing animals they are very stimulating and while a milking animal tor for instance may gain in het her milk flow when pasturing t on early grass or alfalfa iuri it is I 1 likely that she Is also losing weight mr air allred also says that he does not lot pasture alfalfa fields in the fall except when the ground I 1 is dry and the stubbles haa baz not been grazed too closely when one rides through the county he be is impressed with the fact that many farmers are getting in the vicious circle of getting out of hay in the spring consequently their alfalfa with the result that they have less hay the folI following owing spring and hence must pasture early and thus do more anju y and thus have less nay farmers it is time we looked to the problem of feed for the livestock so vigorously that we seldom see the bottom of our hay moN mohand vand uever never see the bottom of the grain bins A good pasture is profitable but only when it has been sufficiently ciatu ed to supply very abundantly the nutriment needed by our livestock the requisite of a good livestock man is an abundance of livestock feed farmers look to your feed for ane livestock B E L land and albert patry parry of roosevelt are arc demonstrating the value of adequate winter maintenance rations for beef calves destined to bo be latt fattened ened the following winter as yearlings yearnings year lings A bunch I 1 of long yearlings yearnings year lings on tae cae patry ranch estimated to weigh bettez than 1000 pounds per head at present came in oft off the range last flail fall weighing between and pounds as a result of the system tor for winter feeding calves calva employed by the katrys it has become a well established fact that sub maintenance rations are never econom economical Idal in modern day beef production the katrys nave found that young lotrn animals make most efficient use of feeds land and consequently feed a fairly generous ration of hay bay to calves during their first winter on the ranch those growing calves utilize to good advantage the high quality of protein or org growth howth producing material contained in legume hay and produce most efficient growth during the winter they are then in condition to continue with good gains during the summer carbonaceous hays such as wild hay and dative or prairie bay make a poor winter ration tor for a calf cale unless they contain some legume such as alside alsike or unless wine isome protein concentrate la Is added the animal body can synthesis or change protein to car bon hydrate or fat but it cannot manufacture protein from baese other ing ingredients lack of protein the essential growth producing nutrient Is P a serious matter with young cattle and aad will cause an enormous increase in the cost of producing beef calves on experiment fed native hay lalone alane during five months winter feeding period iod consumed nine pounds per head daily and gained only 25 pounds per der head during the period while similar calves fed la L mixed hay including alsike alseike clover consumed 12 pounds dally daily aad gained pounds per head in vae tae same length of time similar improvement was secured when ben w an efficient protein concentrate was added to the native hay A calf starved through the winter on a sub maintenance ration will make heable summer gains than the winter fed calf but will not catch up with the latter on a year round basis it is generally recommended ceat stock calves on a well balanced winter ration should be made to gain about a pound per head bead dally daily through the winter if most efficient year round lound gains are desired |