PROGRESSIVE BEEF CATTLE RAISING 



Oil meal and alfalfa may be substituted for cotton- 

 seed meal and clover, and calves may be allowed all 

 the straw they will eat. 



RATION No. 2 



Corn 6 Ibs. 



Cottonseed Meal 3 Ibs. 



Legume Hay 10 Ibs. 



Straw No limit 



RATION No. 3 



Kafir or Milo 12 Ibs. 



Cottonseed Meal 2> Ibs. 



Silage 12 Ibs. 



RATION No. 4 



Barley or Broken Wheat 10 Ibs. 



Roots 10 Ibs. 



Alfalfa Hay 6 Ibs. 



Coarse Hay No limit 



In the foregoing rations oil meal may always be sub- 

 stituted for cottonseed meal, barley or kafir for corn, 

 and any of the legume hays (alfalfa, clover, velvet bean, 

 cowpea, soybean, lespedeza or peanut vine) for any 

 other. It is important that the feed of the growing steer 

 calf contain plenty of protein and mineral matter, hence 

 such feeds as clover, alfalfa, and silage should be given 

 in abundance with some oats, and cottonseed or linseed 

 meal. Calves that are to be fed out as long yearlings or 

 two-year-olds, or to be sold as stockers at a year old, 

 may be fed quite largely the first winter on cheap rough- 

 ages but it pays to give small amounts of concentrates 

 in order to keep the calves growing in a thrifty condition. 



It is highly important that calves be castrated when 

 young, usually at six to eight weeks of age, because there 

 is less danger of checking growth. The object of this is 

 to prevent reproduction, to increase the fattening pro- 

 pensity, to make the animal easier to handle, and to 



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