St. Louis Producers Show 



Dates for the I6th Annual 4-H and 

 Vocational Agriculture Baby Beef Show 

 and Sale, sponsored by St. Louis Pro- 

 ducers at National Stock Yards, 111., 

 have been changed to November 30th 

 and December 1st, H. D. Wright, man- 

 ager reports. This change in dates was 

 necessitated by the Presidential proclama- 

 tion moving Thanksgiving Day up a 

 week to November 23rd. 



Prizes for the Show and Sale consist 

 of several hundred dollars in cash, silver 

 loving cups, plaques and ribbon awards. 

 When the Grand Champion sells for 

 over 25c per pound, 50 percent of the 

 amount above this price is distributed 

 among other exhibitors. Also, 50 per- 

 cent of the additional amount over 20c 

 per pound paid for other calves is di- 

 vided among the exhibitors. 



In last year's event more than 225 

 calves representing around 40 counties 

 in Missouri and Illinois were exhibited. 

 Howard Bradley, 4-H Club boy of Cal- 

 houn, Mo., won the Grand Champion 

 prize, while the Reserve Champion prize 

 went to Loren Dirks of Petersburg, 111. 



Stray Liwestock 



A landowner may recover damages 

 when an adjoining owner's cattle break 

 through the latter's part of a division 

 fence even though the owner's part of 

 the fence is also defective. When the 

 adjoining owner's animals break through 

 a landowners part of the division fence 

 the latter must show he was not negli- 

 gent in keeping his part of the fence 

 repaired, to recover damages. Unless 

 this can be proved he cannot lawfully 

 hold the trespassing animals. 



Under the state law farmers may use 

 stray farm animals for their own benefit 

 after they have posted notices of their 

 possession in at least three public places 

 in the township. 



If the owner appears and claims the 

 animal the taker-up is entitled to reim- 

 bursement for keeping, feeding and ad- 

 vertising. In counties which have not 

 prohibited animals running at large, the 

 right to take up strays is limited to a 

 period between October 31 and April 15. 



Illinois leads all states in the per- 

 centage (43 per cent) of corn har- 

 vested by mechanical pickers says the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In 

 Iowa and Minnesota 35 per cent of 

 corn is picked mechanically. The av- 

 erage Illinois rate for mechanical pick- 

 ing is 12.15 per acre, the labor rate 

 4.2c per bu. 



Mint has an abundance of oil and a long 

 history as a furniture polish. 



AT CATTLE FEEDERS DAY, URBANA 

 Prof. R. R. Snapp with Ray Walsh and Goodman Story, Chicago Producers S<d*sm«ii. 

 William Keating, Wilson & Co. cattle buyer, and Lee Devine oi St. Louis Producers 

 estimating values oi cattle. 



Si/ofe ^ed SieenA, 



Sell JtiaU in QoUetfe. Ve^ 



^^^^ HE highest selling pen of cattle 

 ^^T^on display during cattle feeder's 

 ^J day at Urbana this fall were 

 white faced steers wintered on eight 

 pounds of silage each daily and two 

 pounds of alfalfa over a 150-day period. 

 These two feeds, together with shelled 

 corn and soybean oil meal made up the 

 ration. 



The Texas steers cost $9.65 per cwt. 

 delivered in October, 1938, were valued 

 at $8.65 a hundred in the pen at the end 

 of the feeding period, and returned 60 

 cents a bushel for the corn consumed. 

 They were worth $79.36 a head in the 

 lot and returned $9.44 each over cost 

 of feed and cattle. For each 100 pounds 

 of gain these steers ate 398 pounds of 

 corn silage, 106 pounds of alfalfa hay, 

 480 pounds of shelled corn and 71 

 pounds of soybean oil meal. At the end 

 of the experiment they weighed 917 

 pounds, having gained an average of 1.89 

 pounds per head daily during the 262 

 day feeding period. 



A close second in sale price was the 

 pen which got 15 pounds of silage, and 

 hay during the winter period from Dec. 2 

 to May 1. The lowest selling lot of the 

 four pens was fed no corn silage but got 

 about five pounds of alfalfa per head 

 daily through the winter. These steers 

 returned 55 cents a bushel for the corn 

 consumed. 



In an experiment contrasting dry lot 

 feeding with feeding on pasture, the 

 dry lot steers outsold the pasture jsens but 

 the latter were more profitable. The dry 

 lot animals returned $5.60 a head above 

 the cost of feeding cattle. They gained 

 1.39 pounds p)er head daily. The pasture 

 lot which got grain only the last 28 days 

 of the feeding period was the highest 

 selling one. These steers were valued 

 at $8.40 in the lots which gave a return 

 of $11.16 a head over cost of feeding 

 cattle. They gained 1.29 fxiunds a day. 



Pasture lot steers which got a full feed 

 of shelled corn and soybean oil meal 

 throughout 112 days of pa.sture, gained 

 1.61 pounds daily average and returned 

 $9.88 a head above cost of feeding cattle. 

 Highest gains an acre in 1938 were 4l6 

 pounds from April 30 to November 1 on 

 a Haas mixture pasture which includes 

 two fHJunds each of red clover, sweet 

 clover, alsike, korean lespedeza, timothy 

 and rape seeded with 2.1 bushels of oats 

 per acre. ^ 



Approximately 1400 farmers and 

 stockmen turned out for the meeting at 

 the College of Agriculture, Urbana. 



The Oaober 1 estimate of 1939 corn 



production was 2,532,417 bushels, an 

 increase of more than 9,000,000 bushels 

 as compared with the September 1 re- 

 port. 



NOVEMBER, 1939 



