a four-row corn planter and other power 

 equipment. Corn, oats, clover and alfalfa 

 are the mainstay crops. He also raises 

 some barley. 



"Although I rent the land I farm, I 

 have limed most of it," Hubert said. "I 

 buy and spread the limestone myself." 



All the grain produced is marketed 

 through hogs. Lately from 12,000 to 

 15,000 bushels of corn a year are fed, 

 part of which is bought from neighbors. 



"I have kept farm account books for 

 14 years," Hubert said. "We have fed an 

 average of 10,000 bu. of com a year over 

 a 10-year period and during that time the 

 hogs have paid about $1 a bushel for it." 

 Electric fence is used eflFectively to sep- 

 arate different lots of sows and pigs on 

 pasture. 



"I firmly believe you have got to start 

 at the bottom in any business to succeed. 

 I have observed young men start farming 

 with expensive equipment and generous 

 backing who in a few years went into 

 bankruptcy. My advice to young men 

 is not to try to start at the top, but to 

 begin cautiously, learn to keep down 

 overhead and improve equipment and 

 standards as the earnings from the busi- 

 ness justify." 



Burt Kellogg is a stocky, firm-jawed, 

 deliberate young man of Scotch ancestry. 

 He is farming and feeding cattle because 

 he would rather do that than live in the 

 city. Everyone listened intently as Field- 

 man E. G. Fniin drew him out on the 

 operation of his fertile 560 acre farm in 

 Kendall county where 300 or more heavy 

 cattle are fed out annually. 



"I seldom go to market to buy my 

 cattle," Kellogg said. "I'm cooperative- 

 ly-minded and depend on the Producers' 

 organization to buy my feeders and also 

 to sell them. I follow the advice of 

 Herman Conway (Producers' market 

 analyst) pretty closely and I usually come 

 out all right." 



He buys heavy feeding cattle weighing 

 close to 1,000 pounds. It takes more 

 money to handle that kind and there's 

 more risk, but Kellogg tells you there 

 aren't so many feeding that kind and 

 he has practically, no death loss which is 

 an item. 



Farming for 23 years, Kellogg fol- 

 lows a com-corn-small grain-red clover 

 rotation, uses limestone and rock phos- 

 phate where needed, produces from 200 

 to 300 market hogs the swine sanitation 

 way annually, maintains a profitable flock 

 of around 300 hens, and usually makes 

 money at it. 



Power equipment does the heavy work 

 on the Kellogg acres. Last year, the 16- 

 year old son took care of 210 acres of 

 corn with a Farmall tractor-cultivator. 

 The cattle are fed both in the dry lot and 

 on clover pasture. Kellogg doesn't pro- 

 vide shade for cattle because, he says, "I 



HYBRID CORN PLOTS ON SOLLIVAN FARM 

 Heavy crop yields and economical poik production bring success. 



find that the hot sun doesn't set them 

 back." 



The cattle get protein supplements, 

 such as cottonseed meal, linseed oilmeal, 

 soybean oilmeal, or any other good high 

 protein feed. Silage, shell corn, legume 

 hay, and the concentrates are the main- 

 stay ration except when on pasture when 

 com and cob meal are fed to prevent 

 scouring and bloat. Silage is fed in the 

 morning, grain at night. 



On Sept. 27, Kellogg bought 100 head 

 of white-faced steers averaging about 

 975 lbs. each through the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers for around $8.50 per cwt. He 

 uses the services of the National Live- 

 stock Credit Corporation freely in his 

 feeding operations. 



On the Bernard Matthews farm near 

 Yates City, the first stop on the tour, 

 the crowd saw the results of profitable 

 and practical, mixed livestock farming 



FRANK HUBERT 

 "Start at the bottom ior success." 



featuring cattle and hogs. This farm has 

 been in the Matthews family for 80 years. 

 It has had good care throughout. Ninety- 

 seven per cent of the half section is 

 tillable. The calves from a Hereford herd 

 of 30 cows are raised and fed out along 

 with others purchased from time to time. 

 Thirty-six per cent of the farm income 

 is from hogs, 32 per cent from cattle, 27 

 per cent from grain, the balance from 

 dairy sales and other items. 



On this farm there are also a half 

 dozen high-producing Jersey cows. The 

 Jerseys are bred to the Hereford bull to 

 produce a fairly good type of feeding 

 animal. Close to 300 hogs are raised 

 annually with the use of individual port- 

 able houses placed on rotated clover 

 pastures. 



The rotation is corn-corn-oats or wheat- 

 red clover and timothy. Not all the land 

 has been limed, hence the timothy in the 

 rotation. Perhaps the outstanding reason 

 this farm is a money-maker is its high 

 average yields, rating among the top 20 

 per cent among 400 in the farm account 

 project. Corn average is 76.2 bu. an acre. 

 The efficient way in which livestock is 

 handled, success in keeping overhead and 

 costs down, utilizing farm wastes, and 

 getting better than average prices are 

 all reasons why the Matthews farm stands 

 high in the profit column. 



Matthews is an AAA cooperator. Last 

 year he plowed under 20 acres of soy- 

 beans, this year the same, to comply with 

 the adjustment program. He thinks it's 

 good business to give the land a rest and 

 store up surplus fertility on idle acres 

 until market prices are more attractive. 



In late September, 160 hogs had been 

 marketed weighing 200 lbs. at 5^^ 

 months old. Duroc sows are crossed with 

 a Poland China boar. The pigs are far- 

 rowed in Febmary and early March. Us- 

 ing half gilts, Matthews raises about 7 

 pigs per litter from 25 sows. More sows 



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