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EXPLAINS 



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SYSTEM 



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PRODUCTION 



^, V "i'OU 1'1:1:D year Jttcr year, you 



g can take the gamble out ot tattle 



. feeding. It is a matter ot figuring. 



Just figure your profits on the dit- 



terence between your tat cattle sales 



and your feeder cattle costs in the same 



year. Keep about the same number of 



cattle on teed year after year. 



You i.an do this because there is al- 

 ways a definite relationship between the 

 price you pay for feeders and the price 

 you get for fat cattle in July and Au- 

 gust. 



Our 192-acre farm is built almost en- 

 tirely around cattle feeding. We also 

 rent 120 acres which has no buildings 

 and is operated only as a grain tarm. 



The two large old barns on the farm 

 we own were remodeled into feeding 

 sheds. Now we have plenty of room to 

 store hay and .straw. 



Since the fall of 1937 we have con- 

 tracted Texas calves through the Chi- 

 cago Producers in July or August for 

 October delivery. We like this way of 

 ge;tting calves. We also sell through 

 the Chicago Producers. 



For three years we have been feeding 

 from 150 to 200 heifers. They use 

 more roughage, fatten faster, and finish 

 quicker on less corn than steer calves. 



When the calves arrive in October 

 they are kept in a shed for a few days 

 to rest, and are given all the hay they 

 will eat. In case the weather is nice as 

 it was this year, they are turned out on 

 pasture right away and left there. 



They run on pasture and through 

 corn fields until the feed gets too short 

 or until snow covers the ground. They 

 are then started on silage which is in- 

 creased until they are getting all they 

 will eat. 



In addition to the corn silage, the 



This is heart of Woods feeding plant. Ail hay 

 and straw are stored in barn. Cattle have 

 easy access to hay and barns are easy to bed. 

 Silage and grain are fed in feed bunlcs on 

 concrete floor. Bacle-scratcher made from trac- 

 tor tire is shown at right. 





steers get a pound of protein daily 

 (one-half pound with grass silage). 

 They also are fed all the chopped hay 

 they can eat from racks inside the sheds. 



All our calves run out through the 

 winter as long as the fields stay frozen. 

 We didn't yard them last year until 

 January. 



In the meantime, the lot of light 

 weight heifers are kept on the same 

 silage and linseed meal ration after 

 the March sorting. 



They are fed silage until it is nearly 

 all gone, about the last of April. We 

 then supplement the silage with crushed 

 ear corn until the silage is used up. 

 At this time the cattle are getting all 

 the corn they can eat. 



About May 5 the light weights are 

 turned out on the pasture and fed 

 corn once a day, just what they will 

 clean up. This year we pastured 78 

 head on 20 acres of sweet clover, alfalfa, 

 and timothy mixture. 



From the time they were turned out. 

 May 5. until June 20 they were fed 

 corn once a day. averaging about five 

 pounds per head. After June 20 the 

 corn was increased to eight or 10 



A simple wooden ramp allows hogs to drink 



from cattle tank, saves up to 15 minutes o 



day. Wooden guard in tank keeps pigi< 



when smaller, from drowning. 



pounds, and linseed to one and a hali 

 pounds a day. 



They remained on pasture until Aug 

 15 when they were placed in dry lo: 

 and given a full feed of corn. 



On Sept. C) we sorted out 39 of the 



(Coiiihiued on f>jge 28) 



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