WAUfcR HOWE AND FRED MOORE 

 "Make em heavy and take your profit." 



Warren County Tour 

 Uncovers Some Interest- 

 ing Experiences in Pro- 

 ducing Beef 



^ \ 4 —HliiN drouth and i;r,i>sliop[xrs 

 ^^y 1/ reduced >X'arrcn county's corn 

 j yields 60 per cent last tall, 

 cattle feeders ol' the county t'ound them- 

 selves in a hole. Paradoxically enouuh. 

 many ot" them succeeded in uetting out 

 ot that hole hy di^i^ini; another. 



To make the best of a had teed 

 shortage in a .year of good prices and 

 favorable (ceding margins re<.|uired mucii 

 careful thought and planning. Warren 

 county's feeders foresaw a chance for 

 profit from finished cattle during the 

 twelve months then just ahead. More 

 than that, they knew that it takes corn 

 to make cjiiality fat steers and they 

 didn't have it ! 



The information thev had concerning 



ADVISER WALWORTH'S HELPER 

 "She told feeders how to get there." 



Timely Tips 



to 



Cattle Feeders 



■ belli nd the eight ball so far as having 

 teed tor their cattle was concerned, was 

 Cilen Davis, operator of the first farm 

 visited on tlie tour. Cden had taken on 

 'i^ iKMil of SI'S pound calves last liinc 

 As the lorn harvest grew nearer the crop 

 prospcits tyew poorer and (ilen was liard 

 pressed td linil .some means of saving all 

 the feed value of the crop in order to 

 uinler his >.ittlc 



How to make beef from nubbiny. hop- 

 per stripped corn was dlen s problem. 

 Aii\iscT W.ilworth told him to make a 

 I rent h mIo. Cilen shook his head. His 

 farm is ItAcl .mil w h.it would prevent 

 the trench from filling with ram w.iler^ 



Cilcn took his problem to the annual 

 lattle Iceders d.iy at the Lniversity. 



DURHAM LUCAS 

 He's chairman of the Warren county live- 

 stock marketing committee. 



the cattle m.irket was correct, and. ac- 

 cording to Walter Howe, cattle salesman 

 lor the Chicago Producers Commission 

 .Association, the six months just ahead 

 are expected to offer good markets for 

 all cattle, especially the better grades of 

 heavies. Ihis prediction was made on 

 the strength of information received from 

 thousands of beef producers in all parts 

 of the corn belt by the National Live- 

 stock Marketing As.sc)ciation. How to 

 take advant.ige of the strong market 

 without spending a barrel of money for 

 corn they coul-dn't raise was. and still 

 is. the problem of Warren county s cuttle 

 feeders. 



Fn order to demonstrate methods that 

 make beef in spite of feed shortage. 

 >X'arren county's aggressive farm adviser, 

 E. H. Walworth, arranged a county icuA 

 lot tour a short time -igo. Durini; the 

 trip five farms were visited where cattle 

 are being fed out, mostiv on feeds grown 

 on the farms last season. 



On hand to answer marketini: and 

 feeding c]uestions were. I.. D. Hall, field- 

 man for Illinois Livestock iNLirketing 

 Association. Walter Howe. Chicago Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association, and I:. 

 T. Robbins. livestock specialist, lniver- 

 sity of Illinois. 



Among those who, last fall, stood 



AT THE END OF THE TOUR — 

 "Warren county feeders found a man who 

 raises his own." 



Anmi.d husbandrv professors cited ex- 

 periences other farmers had had with 

 pit silos on flat land and urged him to 

 dig one. 



.Still unconvinced. Davis returned to 

 his farm, .ulcd ar.iinst his own icidi;- 

 ment. dug a trench !.:(! teel long, is 

 Uct wide and six and one half leer deep. 

 Into this hole, looted near a well be- 

 tween two corn fields. Cilen blew and 

 packed all the silage from ^1 acres of 

 hopper damaged corn. He covered the 

 mass with six inches of earth and waited 

 until his calves would need the feed 



His cattle were civen a full ictiX of 



JUNE, 1937 



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