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I have a good shed whore I feed hay, so that in stormy weather the 

 cattle can all get in. I like to feed four cars in one bunch, although one 

 car will make better gains. If I can I like a hog and a half after one 

 steer. I usually get 200 pounds of pork from one steer. 



I have tried different kinds of stock foods and fed them the whole 

 feeding period to one bunch, but made no better gains than when I fed 

 straight corn and clover hay or whole fodder. I look after my cattle 

 every day and feed one bunch myself and my cribs are so arranged that 

 I never load up in wagon to feed. Two of us feed 150 cattle and do a 

 good lot of other work. Other parties I know have ground feed and feed 

 shelled corn, but I do not know the one who has put on more pounds 

 thereby. 



I like a lot for four loads of cattle to contain one to two acres. I 

 keep salt always in the lot. In my experience not so many founder that 

 I have to keep them away from hay or corn by itself. The cattle I ship- 

 ped to Chicago in August were a mixed bunch. Some I bought of my 

 neighbors, some in Missouri. They w.ere not all up-to-date. I had 

 Shorthorns and Herefords and some black ones. I got them on full feed 

 March 1. I fed whole corn and hay, breaking the corn, and let them out 

 on 40 acres of good blue-grass on May 15. I kept them on full feed of 

 corn but quit hay and kept them on fullfeed of corn until shipped 

 They made 400 pounds' gain. There was a barrel of salt in the yard 

 I never keep track of their weight, for I find the more quiet I keep them 

 the better they do. I think for winter feeding long twos or coming 

 threes the best, for they have their growth and can stand the rigors of 

 winter better, but for summer I like long yearlings. 



You may ask why I feed whole corn. They cannot get their fill so 

 quickly and they get exercise which all animals need, whether they walk 

 on four feet or two. 



I have tried all kinds of cattle separate and together but the cattle 

 all over this country are mixed. The best bunch of cattle I ever fed, 

 about 30 years ago, were mostly picked roan Short-horns. As to the 

 question of whether I find trouble in getting good feeders, I will say 

 that we do, for the breeds are so mixed and crossed it Is hard to find 

 them. If a man has to pay for a farm it does not pay to raise calves on 

 $150 land. 



AN ILLINOIS FEEDER'S EXPERIENCE. 



Wm. Chesney, Jr., Bureau County, Illinois, in Breeders' Gazette, 



With reference to the car loads of steers I sold in Chicago July 10 at 

 $5.75, I would say there were twenty head in the bunch which I think gen- 

 erally makes a nice load of that age and size to feed. They were all about 

 twenty-six months' of age and were nearly all pure bred Angus with th- 

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