LUCAS USED HIS HEAD 

 He laid some rails in fhe bottom of 

 fad his cattle the easy way. 



silage and one and tliree-foiirths pounds 

 of cotton seed meal daily during the 

 winter. On April 30, Louis Hall and 

 Walter Howe "^timated that the calves 

 had ^gained 250 pounds per head since 

 June. Glen aims to rough the steers 

 along on pasture and silage plus some 

 oats and wheat until new corn is ready. 

 Then he hopes to finish them for the 

 November market. 



As Glen had anticipated, the floor of 

 his silo got muddy. So he floored it with 

 old railroad ties to make it easier to 

 back his two-wheeled feed cart into the 

 trench. 



According to H. M. C^onway s latest 

 cattle survey, prices for quality heavy 

 cattle should be favorable in November 

 and Glen Davis' feeders should return 

 a fair profit. 



In I-'red Moore's feed lot, farmers 

 found 1000 pound Steers that showed 

 the results of grain feeding. Fred got 

 his steers, 25 head weighing 588 pounds. 

 from the Nebraska Sandhill country about 

 the middle of last October. They have 

 been on a full feed of corn and cotton 



— SAVED HIS HEELS 



his silo, made a cart to run on them, 



seed meal since the first of December. 



As the cattle took on weight, Fred 

 changed the ration from time to time 

 until on April .30, the 25 head were eat- 

 ing 335 pounds of ear corn, 125 pounds 

 o( groimd barley, 125 pounds of black- 

 strap molasses, 50 pounds of soybean oil 

 meal and 1 00 pounds of cotton seed meal 

 daily. Moore pointed out that the molas- 

 ses and barley had been substituted to 

 take the place of corn which, at present 

 prices, is a more expensive source of 

 carbohydrates. 



Hall and Howe appraised the cattle at 

 a little more than ten cents. They advised 

 Fred to carry the cattle along on full 

 feed until they would weigh 1200 

 pounds. This, they explained to the 

 group, will bring the steers into that 

 class of well-finished cattle, now selling 

 around 1 3 cents, which are usually in 

 demand by eastern order buyers. 



GLEN DAVIS' CART 

 'Handy in a pit silo." 



They urged Moore to take his profit 

 on the stock as soon as the steers reached 

 the 1200 pound weight which should be 

 about the middle of July. To hold them 

 longer in hop>e of a rise would be a 

 mistake, Howe warned. At that weight 

 they would eat more feed than the extra 

 pounds and extra price could pay for. 



At Ralph Armstrong's, the next stop, 

 farmers were treated to a view of three 

 carloads of fat cattle almost ready for 

 market. Ralph s steers had gone into the 

 feed lot on December first at an average 

 weight of 1000 pounds. They had had 

 a full feed, measure for measure, of ear 

 corn and silage until about March first 

 at which time one and two-thirds pounds 

 of cotton seed meal and one-half pound 

 of shelled corn per steer were added to 

 the bill of fare. In addition, blackstrap 

 molasses was self fed. 



In appraising these cattle, Howe said: 

 "Here are steers, some of them weighing 

 1400 pounds, that are in the shipping 

 class and eastern order buyers can be 

 counted on to bid for them. That means 

 that they should bring a better price per 

 pound than lighter cattle with similar 

 finish might bring. When you have heavy 

 steers carrying good finish you can ex- 

 pect to get a few cents a hundred more 

 for them from buyers who ship to east- 

 ern slaughter houses than you might 

 expect to get from Chicago packer 

 buyers." 



Armstrong's silage had come from a 

 trench silo which had been dug near 

 the feed lot. When this supply gave out 

 he bought some from his neighbor. 

 Grant Mackey.- 



Over at Mackey's place the cattle men 

 saw an object lesson on the value of care 

 in feeding operations. Farm Adviser 

 Walworth pointed out that it is Mackey's 



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custom to save feed with a curry comb 

 and plenty of dry bedding. 



The Mackey cattle had been roughed 

 through the winter on silage plus a 

 little corn, cotton seed meal and molasses. 

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