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Timely Tips to Cattle Feeders 



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They had come into the feed lot at 606 

 pounds in October and were crowding the 

 900 pound mark on the day of the tour. 

 Although the ration was inexpensive it 

 offered some variety. It was Mackey's 

 opinion that the care he had given them 

 was responsible for their good condition. 

 Professor Robbins agreed with him. 



Mackey plans to sell his steers on the 

 September nurket. In order to do that, 

 he will soon begin to finish them on 

 ground barley. Later they will get corn. 



After lunch at the Coldbrook Church, 

 Robbins discussed the questions which 

 had come up during the tour. He said 

 that Warren county feeders are doing 

 much to build up the fertility of their 

 soils by feeding cattle in lots located at 

 some distance from the farmstead. He 

 indicated that the use of trench silos had 

 saved all the feed it was possible to get 

 from their drouth damaged corn. 



Durham Lucas, chairman of the War- 

 ren county livestock marketing committee, 

 led the party to his farm, not far from 

 the church, where he showed them an 

 ingenious method for taking some of 

 the work out of feeding. He had dug 

 his trench silo in the side of a hill and 

 had left the lower end open. He laid 

 a wooden track on the floor and made a 

 small push cart to run on the two-by-four 

 rails. The bottom of the trench sloped 

 enough so that the loaded car would 

 run out of the pit of its own accord. 



"I put a feed bunk at the bottom and 

 all I had to do to feed my cattle was 

 fill the cart, ride it down to the trough, 

 dump it and roll it back into the silo," 

 Durham chortled. "If that's not saving 

 labor I'd like to know what is." 



Lucas raises his own feeders from his 

 herd of 30 pure bred Aberdeen Angus 

 cows. He has plenty of bluegrass pasture 

 which yields a good return of beef. 



During a special evening meeting, 

 more than 50 cattle and hog feeders 

 and producers gathered in the Farm 

 Bureau building in Monmouth to hear 

 Walter Howe and Lee Miller of Chicago 

 Producers discuss the future trends of the 

 markets. 



Illustrating his talk with charts, Howe 

 stated that the cattle survey indicated 

 a liquidation of cattle during Ma^and 

 June due to high feed costs. Policing 

 that period the market is expected to 

 climb somewhat and remain steady dur- 

 ing the summer and fall. 



"Since there is a shortage of high 

 quality, heavy, well-finished cattle now, 

 it looks like prices for that type of stock 

 will get better as the season progresses," 

 Howe said. "But don't buy too much 

 feed trying to bring your cattle into 



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that class because the cost will amount 

 to more than you will gain. Take your 

 profits just as soon as you can. Nobody 

 ever went broke taking profits." 



Miller told the farmers that hog prices 

 are likely to advance some during the 

 summer and that little change can be 

 expected during the next 50 or 60 days. 

 The improved economic condition of the 

 country with more men going to work 

 will probably be reflected in better prices 

 for pork, Miller said. 



TTie question of pork imports was 

 raised. Adviser Walworth instructed 

 Farm Bureau members to contact the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association which is 

 working closely with the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation legislative committee 

 in Washington in an effort to bring about 

 legislative changes concerning imports. 



While the dollars and cents value of 

 the Warren county feed lot tour and 

 market meeting cannot be computed, it 

 was evident that the event pointed the 

 way to better feeding methods and more 

 orderly marketing plans for the county's 

 livestock producers. ' 



What's Going On At 

 > Springfield 



(Continued from page 6) 



posed these bills on the ground that 

 the present revenues should be main- 

 tained and insofar as possible should 

 be used for the construction of low 

 cost, all-weather, farm-to-market roads. 

 For the same reason the Association 

 has opposed bills to divert gasoline 

 taxes to non-highway uses. 



The Motor 'Vehicle Law has been 

 amended to repeal the provision re- 

 quiring a motor vehicle license for 



tractors and other motor driven farm 

 machinery which are operated on the 

 highways incidental to their use for 

 farming purposes. This amended law 

 is now in effect. In the case of trucks 

 which have a corn sheller or other 

 similar machinery permanently mounted 

 thereon and which are used solely for 

 the transportation of such machinery, 

 a S5.00 license fee is required. 



Senate Bill No. 1 as originally intro- 

 duced created a State board of educa- 

 tion and gave this board rather broad 

 powers of administration and control 

 over the school districts of the State, 

 particularly with reference to consoli- 

 dation of school districts. This bill 

 has been amended and as it passed the 

 Senate the provisions conferring these 

 powers upon this board had been 

 stricken from the bill. Under the bill 

 as amended the board would make 

 recommendations as to the school law, 

 policies to be followed in the schools 

 of the State and in the accounting 

 for expenditures and in the distri- 

 bution of the school funds. The board 

 would become merely advisory except 

 that no new high school district could 

 be created without the consent of the 

 board. Certain organizations are now 

 trying to restore the administrative and 

 mandatory powers of this board. The 

 lAA must oppose any such change. 

 Until county roads are improved to 

 make possible regular daily attendance 

 and taxes are more equitably appor- 

 tioned we cannot support any legis- 

 lation looking toward compulsory con- 

 solidation of schools. 



Other bills relating to schools would 

 increase the State distributive fund to 



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JUNE. 1937 



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