EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III. 107 



I was feeding- them for the Show, and of course wanted to make 

 them good. I don't think, during the entire feeding period, from 

 May until September, there was two bushels of feed thrown out 

 of their troughs to the hogs. The gains the hogs made on fatten- 

 ing these 60 head of cattle during the summer was 1,780 pounds. 

 A good many feeders would tell, you that they sold five hundred 

 hogs out of that feed lot. And those hogs had made a growth 

 during the summer on a good bluegrass pasture alone, besides 

 the corn they got. So that the gain the hogs made from the corn 

 actually consumed by the cattle is greatly overestimated. Yet the 

 hog question is a great factor in profitable beef production, and it 

 is almost impossible to feed cattle profitably without the hogs fol- 

 lowing ; yet we ought to feed the cattle so as to gain most from the 

 corn consumed by them. 



Question: What is your method of handling corn fodder? 



Mr. Emboden : I cut the corn and put it in the shock and 

 leave it in the field until it is fed. I feed all my feed under 

 cover. I feed all my shocked corn in the bam and the sheds. This 

 year I have about 300 shocks of corn in the field and expect 

 to shred it, because I don't expect to put any cattle in until 

 February, and I will probably feed these cattle late, and I want 

 this fodder for them during the spring. For that reason I thought 

 I would shred it in the course of the next two weeks and put it in 

 the barn to feed it shredded. But I would prefer to feed it whole 

 out of the shock. I don't think it pays to shred corn to feed. 

 The first I shredded two years ago, the weather came on a little 

 damp and I continued shredding, and I had 110 hogs in the lot 

 and about 70 head of cattle. After we got through, I think the 

 second day, the whole thing was steaming; you could hardly bear 

 your hand in it. I went, to town and took out insurance on all 

 the cattle and hogs I had in the barn. I told the agent I had 

 heard of spontaneous combustion and fire although I had never 

 seen any of it. I had the building insured and wanted the 

 contents insured; but it didn't burn. 



Question: Which is the most profitable, common cattle on short 

 feed or good cattle on finished? 



Mr. Emboden: That is a hard ciuestion. Now, I handle a few 

 cattle each year on long feed; they are principally Texas calves 

 that I give ten months or a year's feed. I fed 50 head last year 

 and made top cattle of them; sold one load at 8.90 and the other 

 at 8.50. At the last International I had two good loads, that 



