QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO PRESENT METHODS OF 

 BEEF PRODUCTION IN INDIANA. 



EXTENT. 



1. How long have you been feeding cattle ? 



2. How many cattle do you feed annually ? 



j. Is cattle feeding on the increase or decrease in your locality? 



4. Are you feeding as 'many cattle this year as usual f 

 EQUIPMENT. 



5. How many acres of land in your farm ? 



6. How many acres devoted to pasture ? 



7. How many acres devoted to corn ? 



8. How many acres devoted to hay ? 



o. Do you grow clover f Alfalfa? Roots? Cow peas ? 



Sorghum ? Soy beans ? 



10. What kind of shelter do you provide for fattening steers f 

 Barn ? Open shed ? Straw stacks ? Timber lot f 



Open lot ? 



if. Do you make any provision against flies in summer or mud 

 in winter? If so, what? 



12. Do your cattle get lousy in winter ? What do you do for them ? 



ij. What is the source of your stock water? 



14. Do you use a tank heater? 



75. Do you use a self-feeder? If so, with what success? 

 FEEDERS. 



16. Do you raise feeders ? 



17. What are the advantages in growing your own feeders ? 



18. Do you raise calves on skim milk or allow them to suckle cow? 

 10. What kind of grain and roughage doyoufeed a skim milk calf? 



20. At what age do you wean calves ? 



21. Do you feed grain before weaning ? 



22. Do you produce baby beef ? If so, do you allow them to lose 

 the calf fat ? 



23. At what age do you put calves on full feed ? 



