TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV ISl 



more snap coru I use the better I like it. I raise from 6,000 to 

 9,000 bushels myself, and I put it on the ground and leave it out 

 for the 3'oung ones. Of course I have a crib with some in for 

 stormy or bad weather, but my experience is that corn on the 

 ground is much better for the cattle than corn in the crib. INIr. 

 Parsons spoke about his cattle's mouths getting sore. That will 

 never happen if he has his corn out in the open where it is S9ft. 

 Enough moisture fails during the winter so that the snap corn is 

 in good shape always for cattle, but if he has it in the crib, as I 

 have, and once in a Avhile pulls out a load, he will sea the difference. 

 After the}^ have been fed snap corn for sixty or seventy days, com- 

 mence giving one feed of shelled corn and one feed of snap, ^^ith 

 a little oil meal — up to about three pounds per liead per day — with 

 shock coru fed once a day and clover and timothy hay for roughage. 

 The steers that I feed have always made good gains and made 

 some money. I never m-cila 1 vuy cattle in the winter time. I alwaj's 

 commence to feed late. 



]Mr. Wallace: You leave considerable husk on it? You don't 

 thin-snap it? 



^Ir. ^lurray: Yes; T leave the husk on, but no shanks. 



]\rr. Smith : I would like to ask ^Mr. ]\furray, with an advance 

 on cattle of 4i/l> cents a pound, at what price must a 1200-pound 

 steer be sold to bring a reasonable profit? 



iMr. ^Murray : I never made any figures. I put 120 head into 

 the feed lot last Sunday morning, being forced to on account of the 

 storm. I did not expect to put them in until the first of January. 

 When I was a young man, if corn was 25 cents a bushel, I wanted 

 $1 a hundred ; and when it is worth 50 cents you want $2 a hun- 

 dred. I don't know whether that will answer the question or not. 

 I have always figured with my cattle that the hog feed would pay 

 for the interest on the money in the rough feed. 



]\Tr. Downing: I Avould like to ask Mr. i\Iurray hoAV he finishes 

 his cattle just before he sliips them to market — whether he feeds 

 them on corn up to the last hour, or a couple of days before he 

 ships he cuts out the corn entirely and feeds them on hay and oats, 

 or something of that sort ? 



Mr. iMurray: I have tried all ways. I have fed whole sheaf 

 and threshed oats, and I have fed them on corn, but I don't be- 

 lieve there is anythiog that v/ill beat snap corn. I don't like sh<^lled 

 corn for the last feed. I only have to drive my cattle a mile to 

 the shipping station. 



