DONALD MACEAY 

 "Range cattle raiseiB ore increaaing the 

 size of their herds." . 



manure and improve your pastures." 

 This astute feeder cooperates in the 

 agricultural adjustment program, thinks 

 the AAA is a sound approach to the 

 problem of stabilizing corn and live- 

 stock prices. 



Fred Guenzler, one of Northwestern 

 Illinois' big cattle feeders finishes 400 

 to 500 heavy steers annually. His 

 cattle are often market toppers. His 

 lot of 1325 pound averages sold early 

 in May for $12.85 on a market with 

 a $13.50 top. "There were three loads 

 •ahead of me," he said. 



Guenzler self-feeds ground corn and 

 cob meal and shell corn mixed with 

 cottonseed meal and a little commer- 

 cial molasses feed. In fall and winter 

 the cattle get corn fodder, later ground 

 corn which is gradually replaced with 

 shelled corn. Corn silage, alfalfa, and 

 clover and timothy hay are also freely 

 fed. 



Guenzler recently bought some 870 

 pound White Face range yearlings for 

 $10.10 laid down. Wilhelm paid $9.70 

 delivered for some 972 pound cattle. 



Donald Mackay and his father are 

 carrying on a different, yet interesting 

 type of cattle feeding operation on their 

 100 acre farm near Chadwick. Back 

 in 1888, the elder Mackay went to 

 eastern Montana and acquired 40 sec- 

 tions of low cost range land around 

 Miles City. At first sheep and later 

 horses were raised. The lambs were 

 shipped to the Carroll county farm for 

 fattening. Later Hereford co-cvs re- 

 placed the sheep and this year there 

 will be approximately 400 females to 

 calve in the Montana herd, an increase 

 of more than a hundred over last year. 



Drought, grasshoppers, flies and 

 shortage of water during the middle 

 '30s greatly reduced the carrying capa- 

 city of the great plains but during the 



JUNE. 1939 '-'^' 



past two years grass has been more 

 plentiful and Mackay says the cattle 

 raisers are increasing the size of their 

 breeding herds. 



When the Mackay Montana calves 

 weigh around 350 pounds they are 

 shipped to the Illinois farm for further 

 growing and fattening. The calves get 

 corn silage and legume hay, shell com 

 self-fed and a concentrate such as lin- 

 seed, cottonseed, or soybean oilmeal. 

 Mackay likes this type of operation be- 

 cause it reduces the risk in cattle feeding 

 to a minimum and utilizes to good 

 advantage the feed produced on both 

 the Montana ranch and the corn belt 

 farm. — Editor. 



Alfalfa, Swpet f^lover 



Silage Proves Popular 



A number of Carroll county cattle 

 feeders and dairymen are discovering 

 that alfalfa, sweet clover, and soy- 

 beans makes excellent silage that con- 

 tains more protein than corn silage. 



Albert Derrer of Lanark is feeding 

 alfalfa silage both to fattening beef 

 cattle and dairy cows. "The cattle 



HEREFORD YEARUNGS IN 

 WILHELM FEED LOT 



'They'll be finished on com 

 and cob meal, cottonseed meal 

 and blue grass pasture." 



ALBERT DERRER WITH aliclfa sUage 

 "The cattle like it fine." 



like it fine," he said. "They clean up 

 everything and do just as well if not 

 better on it than corn silage." Derrer 

 believes that the extra protein in the 

 alfalfa justifies cutting down on feed 

 concentrates. 



Ted Kingery, a dairyman finds sweet 

 clover silage just as palatable as corn 

 .silage but he advises that the sweet 

 clover be cut high so as to leave about 

 16 inches of stubble. The coarse lower 

 stems do not make good silage and 

 the cows leave them in the manger, 

 he says. Last winter his alfalfa and 

 that of many neighbors killed out while 

 the sweet clover stuck. A barrel of 

 diluted black strap molasses is mounted 

 beside the ensilage cutter and run into 

 the blower by a hose. The molasses 

 supplies the necessary acidity to pre- 

 serve the silage against spoilage. 



MODERN NEW HOUSE ON GUENZLER FARM 

 "His $12.85 cattle will help pay for it" 



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