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buy the molasses myself and mix my feeds than buy the prepared feeds, 
though I have fed a little of some of them. I like oilmeal better than 
the cottonseed meal, for the calves, though I have fed a little cottonseed 
meal when the oilmeal was high. More than a pound a day of the cotton- 
seed meal doesn't seem to be good for the calves, while I have fed three 
pounds of the oilmeal at a profit. 
" 'I like alfalfa best of all the hays I ever tried. My own patch of it, 
though, has killed out and I'm just getting it started again. The last 
bunch, those in the yards, had only clover and oat hay. Of course they 
got silage. The silage is great stuff, but the cows get more of that than 
the calves do. I reckon I never feed more than 15 pounds of silage a 
day to the calves, and seldom that much. I used to feed some roots to 
the calves, and a lot to the cows, but not any more since I have silage. 
They cost too much to grow. Labor is too high and I don't like to bend 
my back over them myself. Silage is better anyhow. 
" 'I've made yearlings weigh 1,200 pounds at 16 months in the way 
I've told you. The bunch in the yard will average a good bit better than 
1,100 in June at 16 months. Sometimes I sell at 1,000 pounds or less. 
Sometimes I carry them to 1,250 pounds or better. Usually when they 
are fat and prime they are better sold even if they are a bit light in weight. 
There 's not much money in holding after they are ready to go. 
" 'I like to feed the babies better than the older cattle. It's a surer 
thing and to me it's a pleasanter business, too, breeding them yourself.' " 
— By Rex Beresford, Iowa Beef Producers' Association, in the Prairie Farmer, Chicago. 
Two of the Six Reinforced Monolithic Concrete Silos at Arcady Farm, Lake Forest, Illinois, owned 
by Arthur Meeker. 
