PROCEEDINGS CORN BELT MEAT PRODUCERS' ASSN. 581 



until — I have opened two of the silos and I can tell you about what 

 was in them. The first one I mentioned, 20x40, settled down nine 

 feet ; the next settled, well, it would be pretty nearly the same, about 

 nine feet, and the third one, the small one, I haven't opened yet, but 

 I f.gure it has settled about the same as the other, and I put sixty 

 acres of very good corn in them. 



Q. These heavy cattle that you are talking about, when do you 

 plan to have them in the market? These cattle that are 1,200 pounds 

 now, that come off the pasture good and fat, that are fed lots of 

 corn and alfalfa and lots of straw and everything to go with it, when 

 do you plan to have them go on the market ? 



A. Your idea is to make — 



Q. I want your idea. 



A. I will give you my experience. My experience has been to 

 feed those cattle. My main business is feeding light cattle. I carry 

 them from September on until — whenever I can market them. I 

 may pick up heavy cattle in between, but I don't figure on keeping 

 those heavy cattle very long. I give them a quick feed and send 

 them along, maybe, about the first of the year. 



Q. They are just now off pasture — second grass pasture? 



A. You have asked something that I never do. I would be 

 getting out of my sphere when you ask about that. I suppose I 

 would feed them until they got fat or until the market suited me, 



Q. Do you feed much oil meal at $40 a ton now? 



A. Do you mean linseed oil meal? 



Q. Yes. 



A. I wouldn't give them very much with corn as cheap as it is. 

 I don't think they need it, if you give them a lot of clover hay. 



Q. Do you give them any molasses on their corn to sweeten it? 



A. No, sir; I wouldn't. 



Q. Even at $28 a ton for molasses ? 



A. No, I don't think it is worth that. I have got some at home 

 there that is in barrels and has been there for a couple of years, and 

 it didn't cost me that, and I am not using it ; I don't think it is worth 

 using. The only way it is worth using is to bore a hole in the 

 barrel and set it over a trough and let the pigs lick it up. 



Q. What do you figure that your calves cost you at weaning 

 time? The cost of the cow and the interest and the keep of the bull 

 and everything? 



A. I try to get that down to about $30. I don't believe I can 

 get them below that, and that is the reason I said I didn't feed them 



