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DONALD MACKAY 

 "Range cattle raisers are increasing the 

 iize of their herds." 



manure .ind improve your pastures." 

 This astute feeder cooperates in the 

 at;ritultural adjustment pro^'ram, thinks 

 the AAA is a sound approach to the 

 problem ot stabiiizini; corn and hvc- 

 stock prices. 



Fred Guenzler, one ot Northwestern 

 Illinois' bii; cattle feeders finishes iOO 

 to 500 heavy steers annually. His 

 cattle are often market toppers. His 

 lot of ! ^^"i pound averages sold earlv 

 in Mav tor S12.s^ on a market with 

 a S!3.'^0 top. ' Tliere were three loads 

 ahead of me." he said. 



Guenzler self-feeils 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 _t;et corn fodder, later cround 

 corn which is t;raduallv replaced with 

 shelled corn, (^orn silage, alfalfa, and 

 clover and timothv hav are also freelv 

 fed. 



Guenzler recently bought some 8~0 

 pound White Face ranye yearlin_t,'s for 

 SIO.IO laid down. Wilhelm paid S9 "0 

 delivered for some y~^ pound cattle. 



Donald Mackay and his father are 

 carrying on a different, yet intercstini» 

 type of cattle feeding operation on their 

 100 acre farm near Chadwick. Back 

 in 1S8K. the elder Mackay went to 

 eastern Montana and acquired -tO 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 cov. s re 

 placed the sheep and this year there 

 will be approximately lOO females to 

 calve in the Montana herd, an increase 

 of m.ore 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 ot their 

 breeding herds. 



When the Mackay Montana calves 

 weigh around 3''() pounds thev are 

 shipped to the Illinois farm for further 

 growing and fattening. The calves get 

 corn silage and legume hay, shell corn 

 selt-ted and a concentrate such as lin 

 seed, cottonseed, or soybean oil meal 

 Mackay likes this type of oj^eration be 

 cause it reduces the risk in cattle feeding 

 to a minimum and utilizes to good 

 advantage the feed produced on both 

 the Mont.'.na ranch and the corn belt 

 farm. — Editor. 



Alfiilfa, Sivi'i't rimer 



Silugr I'riiii's I'npiiliir 



A number of Carroll countv cattle 

 feeders and dairymen are discovering 

 that alfalfa, sweet clover, and sov 

 beans makes excellent silage that ton- 

 tains more protein than corn sil.ige. 



Albert Dcrrer of Lanark is feedint: 

 alfalfa silage both to fattening beef 

 cattle and dairy cows. The cattle 



HEREFORD YEARLINGS IN 

 WILHELM FEED LOT 



"They'll be finished on corn 

 and cob meal, cottonseed meal 

 and blue grass pasture." 





ALBERT DERRER WITH alfalfa silage 

 "The cattle like it fine." 



like It tine, he said. They clean up 

 everything and do just as well if not 

 rciter on it than corn silage.' Derrer 

 believes that the extra protein in the 

 alfalfa justifies cutting down on feed 

 lOncent rates. 



Ted Kingery, a dairyman finds sweet 

 1. lover silage lust as palatable as corn 

 silage but he advises that the sweet 

 clover be cut high so as to leave about 

 \(-> inches ot stubble. The coarse lower 

 siems do not make good silage and 

 the cows leave them in the manger, 

 he s.iys Last winter his alfalfa and 

 tluu of many neighbors killed out while 

 the sweet clo\er stuck. A barrel of 

 diluted black strap molasses is mounted 

 beside the ensilage cutter and run into 

 the blower bv a hose The molasses 

 supplies the necessarv aciditv to pre- 

 serve the sil.ige airainst spoilage. 



MODERN NEW HOUSE ON GUENZLER FARM 

 "His S12.85 cattle will help pay for if. " 



