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"CAREFUL FARMING DID IT" 'MOSTLY LONG YEARLINGS' 



Modern Farm Bulfdings. Soyoll Painted, go With Ferfile SolL Part of Georges 115 Head on Feed. He Likes Calves Better. 



They're Not all Dairymen 

 in Kane County 



\ \ ANt county and its hipn dairy 

 ^^L' district have been tamous the 

 ^^^y_ country over for more than ^0 

 years. Cattle buyers from all parts of 

 the United States and foreign countries 

 have come there to purchase high-pro- 

 ducinc dairy cows anil breeding stock. 



Not so well known is the fact that 

 this county has some of the best beef 

 cattle feeders m the country. The rich, 

 brown, silt loam soils of western and 

 southern Kane county grow large crops 

 of corn, clover and alfalfa, ideal for the 

 production of tjuality beef. 



A leader among Kane county's cattle 

 feeders is George Dauberman. an out- 

 standinc larm Bureau member who owns 



GEORGE DAUBERMAN 

 "Oon't Push the Clock Back.' 



310 .icres of this fertile soil one mile 

 north of Kanevillc. The list of offices 

 and titles Dauberman has acijuiretl 

 should make him a candidate for AX'ho s 

 W'lio. He has been sought out trc 

 t^uently to serve his township, county, 

 state and nation 



Among these various offices he holds 

 is the chairmanship of the Kaneville 

 township soil conservation committee 

 He was a member of the countv lommit- 

 tee on the corn-hog program. Soiiic 

 time .igo he served as a sihool trustee 

 for the township, and is now a high 

 school director and secretary of the sihool 

 board. Director of the Kane ( ounty 

 Farm Bureau, member of the managing 

 committee of the Kane County Scrviic 

 Ciompany, and livestock chairman of 

 Kane countv, are other oftKCs he nou 

 holds. 



But all these arc side issues. Mr. 

 Dauberman s chief interest is feeding cat 

 tie. When interviewed for this story Ik 

 was feeding 1 1 "* head. Of these. SO 

 were Herctords. the rest Angus mostly 

 long yearlings. He usually buys calves 

 and feeds them all tlie wav. but high 

 feed prices intiuenccil' liim in buving 

 them a bit older. 



In I9s(> Dauberman planted no 

 acres of corn, ■I'i .i<res of oats, J^i acres 

 of barley. 'Hie remainder of his land is 

 in meadow and pasture. Although no 

 soybeans were planted in lMs(S. Daulxr- 

 man has tried them in the past and in 

 (ludtil a few .acres in his rotation this 

 year. He highly recommenils the use of 

 soybean oil meal VMth corn in starting 

 cattle off in the feed lot 



George Dauberman s land is probably 

 in as high a state of cultivation as any in 

 the state. Hverv foot of the farm is till 

 able. ( areful farming did it Onlv 

 twice in the iO years has his corn vield 

 fallen belovi- 60 bushels to the acre. 



Hybrid corn - now you're talking 

 about a real crop! he said enthusiasti- 

 cally when the subject was raised Tve 

 never tried it mvsclf, but Ive seen wh.U 

 It tan do and Tm planning to plant a lot 

 of it. 



Hybrid corns the coming crop in 

 mv opinion, ^'ou'll see the v^liolc lorn 

 belt turn to it before long. 



Dauberman is a firm lH.liever in crop 

 rotation for preservation of the soil. He 

 now plants two vears of corn and ful 

 lows with barley or oats seeded with 

 alfalfa or ilo\cr 



George Dauberman Doesn't Know 



Much About Milk Cows But He's An 



Accomplished Cattle Feeder. 



OCTOBER, 1937 



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