Feeding Outlook- 



(Continued from page 8) 



It takes about twice as much corn to 

 finish those same calves to prime grade, 

 Francis said — 63 bushels compared to 



39. 



This year's tests with calves are the 

 fifth in a series. Other trials with good 

 and choice yearlings and good two-year- 

 olds on pasture or drylot showed that it 

 takes a feeding period of about 200 

 days to finish them to choice market 

 grade. 



This summer's results on the feeding 

 study show that it is possible to finish a 

 good feeder calf to choice market grade 

 on 39 bushels of corn in 235 days. 



Other tests demonstrated the value of 

 grass as a steer feed. Steers gained an 

 average of 311 pounds in 158 days this 

 spring on low-cost bromegrass or blue- 

 grass pasture, both with clovers mixed 

 in. This gain was valued at about $90 

 an acre, the cost per 100 pounds of gain 

 19.94. 



Feeding tests by Fred C. Francis, as- 

 sistant professor, sought to discover 

 how much corn it takes and how long 

 a feeding period is needed to finish 

 known feeaer grades of cattle to any 

 given market grade. 



This season's tests showed that choice 

 calves weighing 480 pounds when feed- 

 ing started on Nov. 6, 1947, gained 

 1.95 pounds a day during an average 

 235-day feeding period to reach choice 

 carcass grade. They gained 458 pounds 

 and used 39 bushels of corn, 1,500 

 pounds of silage, 311 pounds of soy- 

 bean or linseed meal, and 600 pounds 

 of clover hay per steer. 



When slaughtered between June 1 

 and July 27, 1948, 12 carcasses graded 

 AA and three were A quality. They 

 dressed out 63 per cent. 



Miller, DeWitt ; Lewis Porter, 



Anita Reaman, Kankakee; 



Reeser, DeWitt ; Robert 



Tazewell ; Lorna Springer, 



lAA Entertains— 



(Continued from page 29) 



Delegates to the Club congress, se- 

 lected on the basis of their superior 

 over-all records for 1948 in project 

 work, 4-H activity and leadership in 

 other events in their community and 

 county, were : 



Edward C. Bates, Henry County; 

 John W. Bliss, Knox ; Denny Coleman, 

 Gallatin ; Margaret Cummins, Jefferson ; 

 Mary Elder, Christian; Bettelou Flory, 

 Warren; Jimmie Gahm, LaSalle; Margie 

 Groves, DeKalb. 



Kenneth Heisner, Will; Elaine Held, 

 Marshall; Rose Alice Howell, Fultop; 

 Floyd C. Hutchings, Lake; Gladys 

 Krapf, Will; Esther Kuster, Henry; 



Merle S. 



Adams; 

 Carolyn 

 Schrock, 

 White. 



Thomas C. Sussenbach, Bond; Bar- 

 bara Thiebaud, Greene; Will F. "Tracy, 

 Stark; John White, Jr., Kane; Joe 

 Arthur Wilcox, Lawrence; and Mary 

 Lee Wilson, Montgomery. 



Local 4-H leaders. Dale Donley, 

 Adams county, and Mrs. W. J. Steven- 

 son, Henry county, will attend Club 

 Congress in recognition of their fine 

 local leadership and length of service. 



Instructor H. P. Erwin takes look at map 

 of farm as Fred Turner and son. Bill, 4, 

 look on. At right is Bob Dale, hatcheryman 

 and veteran's teacher. Wagon is one 

 Turner made in Gi class. 



Gl Training— 



(Continued from page 18) 



ber of dependents. Single men can earn 

 up to $210, and of this amount the gov- 

 ernment will pay $65 for employed and 

 $67.50 for self-employed veterans. 



For veterans with one dependent the 

 ceiling is $270, the government paying 

 up to $90 for an employed and $93.75 

 for a self-employed veteran. For two 

 or more dependents, the ceiling is $290, 

 the government paying up to $90 for 

 an employed and $97.50 for a self- 

 employed veteran. 



"The financial payments are attractive. 

 They draw veterans into the program. 

 About 15,000 are enrolled in Illinois — 

 5,000 as self-employed and 10,000 as em- 

 ployed veterans. "The payments mean a 

 larger salary check for the employed vet- 

 eran and insurance against failure as well 

 as payments for the self-employed vet- 

 eran. 



Whether veterans go on, as Turner 

 and Wither have done, and gain from 

 the educational training, depends as 

 much on the instructor as the student. 

 This is true of any educational program 

 and the farm training program is no ex- 

 ception. 



Farm Woodlot- 



(Continued from page 17) 



they are better suited to timber growing 

 than to other crops or pasture. 



Growth under present management 

 on this acreage is 100 board feet per 

 acre or less. Growth after reforesting 

 and under good management is placed 

 at 500 board feet per acre. 



Speakers at the congress also were 

 emphatic in declaring that timber land 

 should never be pastured. Timber 

 land, it was asserted, should either be 

 managed for timber production without 

 the presence of livestock or it should 

 be cleared and improved for pasture, 

 perhaps leaving a few scattered trees 

 for shade. 



The forestry department of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture reports that 54 per 

 cent of the farm woodlands are grazed. 



In other talks, Dean H. P. Rusk, of 

 the U. of I. College of Agriculture, 

 was convinced that for much of Illinois' 

 farm land in forests and lying idle "the 

 immediate problem is one of research 

 and education on how these areas can 

 be profitably integrated into general 

 farming operations." 



"Public ownership, development, and 

 management seems to be the best solu- 

 tion of the problem on large areas of 

 non-agricultural land where forestry 

 cannot be integrated with profitable 

 farming operations," he added. 



Dean Rusk also foresaw larger 

 ownership of forests by industry, and 

 called'for expansion of farm accounting 

 in southern Illinois to include forestry 

 income and expense. 



The Wise Farmer Looks 

 To The Future — Buys 

 U. S. Security Bonds j 



THE wise farmer looks ahead. He 

 plans for the lean years that follow 



prosperous times. The wise farmer 

 knows there is no better way to secure 

 his future than in buying U. S. Security 

 Bonds. 



Security Bonds provide a 10-year crop 

 of security that will never fail you as an 

 investment. For every $3 you invest. Se- 

 curity Bonds will repay you $4 in only 

 10 years. 



By saving your extra dollars now you 

 will make a real contribution to con- 

 trolling inflation that has made the 

 booms and busts so painful to farmers 

 throughout the years. 



Security Bonds will safeguard your 

 future and help keep this country free 

 and strong. Invest your extra dollars 

 now. Buy U.S. Security Bonds. 



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