PROCEEDINGS CORN BELT MEAT PRODUCERS' ASSN. 549 



SUGGESTIONS ON THE FEEDING AND CARE OF BABY BEEF 



CALVES 



There are three factors to be considered in the feeding of baby beeves, 

 viz: What you feed, how you feed, and how well you make use of the 

 feed. These factors will largely determine your success in the showring 

 and in daily gains. 



Feeds — Concentrates and Roughages 



In general, feeds may be divided into two groups, concentrates and 

 roughages. The concentrate group includes the grains and such com- 

 mercial feeds as linseed oil meal, cottonseed meal, bran, etc. The rough- 

 age group includes the hays, corn stover, ensilage, grasses and feeds of 

 like nature. 



Concentrates furnish the materials for building the tissues, muscle and 

 bone, and also furnish heat for the body. Roughages furnish the same 

 things, only in much smaller amounts in proportion to the bulk, and, in 

 addition, they furnish "body" to the feed, which insures regularity of 

 the digestive functions. 



Concentrates, as their name implies, have a large total amount, in 

 proportion to their total bulk, of the muscle building and fat energy pro- 

 ducing compounds contained in feeds. Two of the most concentrated 

 concentrates are linseed oil meal and cottonseed meal. It has been defi- 

 nitely proven by experiment that these two concentrates increase daily 

 gains and that the use of one, from the experience of most of the club 

 members, linseed oil meal is to be prefered, is necessary. 



First prize Hereford and champion over all, Iowa State Fair, 1922. 

 by Clifford Benson, La Moille, Marshall County. 



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