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paid), and a grain ration of 3 parts corn, 2 parts wheat bran and 1 part 

 oil meal. Weight September 1, was 822 Ibs. He was then put on two nurse 

 cows, fed green corn, stalks and ears, clover hay and roots, with boiled 

 wheat and oats for grain. On October 1 he weighed 941 pounds; Novem- 

 ber 1, 1,060 pounds. During this month he was eating from nine to 

 eleven pounds a day of the cooked feed, about twenty-five pounds a day 

 of roots and five pounds of clover hay, in addition to the milk of the 

 nurse cows. He never missed a feed from May 1 until sold in Chicago; 

 and never appeared the least bit nervous or restless. 



He weighed December 1 when sold at auction 1,120 pounds and 

 brought the show price (of course a fancy price) of 60c per pound, 

 netting $672, the second highest price on record. 



This development was phenomenal, but one rather expects the phenom- 

 enal when a calf is sent to college and given all possible early advantages. 

 The lesson is plain. It "takes two things to make a baby beef," breeding 

 and feeding. 



Look around. Maybe on your place there is some promising young- 

 ster. Maybe you yourself can show something as good as Kennedy's calf. 



3. Feeding the Horse 



TIMOTHY OATS It's little we give the horse that is little variety. 



Timothy hay for roughage, oats for concen- 

 trates- that's the usual menu in most horse mangers. 



Of course the roughage varies with the section in the south maybe 

 a horse would be given corn blades, on the western coast mostly barley 

 or alfalfa; in some western sections, prairie grass. But on the whole 

 there is a limited variety, and all in all, timothy is the leader. 



CLOVER ALFALFA Timothy has good fuel value, and lots of energy; 

 but clover and alfalfa are also excellent, if not 



fed too liberally. A good plan is to combine clover hay and timothy, 

 making a substantial, not too bulky roughage. Oats, with these, make a 

 combination of all the needed elements. Oats are bulky as grain; so 

 when oats are fed less hay is needed. 



FEEDING POINTERS Most horses get more hay than is good for them. 

 Hay is bulky and 'distends the digestive organs. 



Feed enough and just that. More only hinders, and much more is pos- 

 itively dangerous. 



Never feed musty hay. The fine mold is sure to get into the lungs 

 and windpipe, and set up disorders. If dusty, sprinkle the hay in the 

 manger, so that the dust will not seriously affect the animal in breathing. 



Some feeders don't stop to consider that the horse's stomach is small. 

 If he is fed grain first, then a bulky ration of hay, then watered, clearly 

 all this cannot find place in the stomach at once, and the most important 

 nutritive first part of the meal is pushed out before fully acted upon by 

 the stomach. 



Water first, then feed a little hay, and then the concentrated grain 

 part of the ration. Besides, feeding grain first encourages bolting, as the 

 horse is usually hungry. Hay cannot be so easily bolted. 



Mixed grains have a better value than the same grains fed separately. 

 This seems to be true with all animals. 



