1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
99 
FEEDING WESTERN HEIFERS FOR 
BEEF. 
Both Profit and Manure. 
We are running a nursery of some¬ 
thing over 300 acres. We grow all 
kinds of nursery stock, but especially 
large amounts of rose bushes and Cle¬ 
matis, and all ornamental shrubs and 
plants. We need large quantities of ma¬ 
nure. It has been costing us right along 
$2 a load delivered on our farms. Some¬ 
times we buy it in the village, some¬ 
times we get it from Buffalo, but the 
expense was so great that we have com¬ 
menced to feed cattle in a small way. 
Last year we fed something between 30 
and 40 head of scrub steers that we ob¬ 
tained in northern New York. We did 
fairly well on them, and made a fair 
gain, and realized a profit over and 
above the manure. This year we bought- 
51 Short-horn and Hereford heifers 
(yearlings) in October in the Kansas 
City stock yards. They weighed when 
they went into our yards on an average 
614 pounds each. This was good weight 
for yearling heifers. They cost a little 
less than three cents a pound delivered 
at our farms. 
We have a large canning factory here 
that cans the output of several hundred 
acres of corn and several hundred acres 
of peas. We erected three silos that 
hold 180 tons apiece. For the last two 
years we have filled them with the pea 
straw as it came from the viners at this 
factory, and we have fed this and two 
rations a day of this pea straw, the 
other ration of coarse fodder. We use 
cornstalks, millet, oat straw and a very 
little clover hay. We feed our cattle on 
this until about February 1. We have 
something over 100 tons of sugar beets, 
not sugar beet pulp, but the beets them¬ 
selves. On one piece we grew at the rate 
of 15 tons to the acre last year. On an¬ 
other piece of land we grew at the rate 
of 18 tons to the acre. An accurate ac¬ 
count of the cost is not over $1.50 per 
ton aside from the land, for the total 
expense of growing these beets and put¬ 
ting them into our cellars. About Feb¬ 
ruary 1 we commence to give the cattle 
a ration of sugar beets and also a very 
small ration of cotton-seed oil cake (not 
linseed oil). With the cotton-seed oil, 
cake we mix also a small amount of 
cornmeal. Last year the cattle did very 
well indeed on the pea silage and made 
good gains up to the time that we fed 
sugar beets and cotton-seed oil meal. 
Our 51 heifers at the present time are 
making a very good gain upon the silage 
and rough fodder. The gain is from a 
pound to a pound and a half per day on 
these rations. We have no doubt that 
when we put them on full feed we shall 
gain from 2 y 2 to three pounds a day. 
The object in buying western heifers 
instead of State steers was that the first 
cost is about one to 114 cent per pound 
less than what steers would have cost. 
Then again, the increase of weight on 
these Short-horns and Herefords is 
much better than it is on native steers 
or what we call scrubs. When we turn¬ 
ed off the two-year-old steers last year 
along in June they only weighed on an 
average 750 pounds live weight, while 
our 51 heifers without a doubt by May 
1, upon the feed that we have enumer¬ 
ated above, will weigh from 1,000 to 
1,100 pounds, and while the last year’s 
feeding did very well, yet they were not 
animals that we could send to any mar¬ 
ket and obtain the best price for them'. 
They had to be retailed, while our 51 
heifers, if properly fattened or finished 
off, will go to any market in the country 
and sell for the extreme highest price, 
as they will go for baby beef. If they 
were steers they would bring a little 
more money, and the writer has an idea 
that another year he will buy selected 
calves either on the range or from what¬ 
ever stock yard, like Chicago or Kansas 
City, he can do the best, buy these 
calves in October, winter them through 
with good feed, pasture them during the 
Summer and put them in our barns with 
silage to feed during the Winter, believ¬ 
ing in that way that we can get steers 
which are worth a little more money 
than heifers for a small cost, and get 
the entire growth from the time that 
they are six or eight months old until 
the time we turn them off. We are mak¬ 
ing from the 51 heifers an average of 40 
two-horse loads of manure a month. 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
“Grit’’ for Hens.—I was much inter¬ 
ested in J. R,’s letter on chickens, page 14. 
From past experience I have reason to be¬ 
lieve the moping and death of said chicks 
is due to lack of proper grit, which is ab¬ 
solutely necessary when feeding grain to 
chickens. I have kept chickens for the 
past four years, and I find where grain is 
fed plenty of several kinds of “grit” must 
be provided. I keep a pan of ground 
oyster shells, sand and chipped granite 
which you can buy for 75 cents per 100 
pounds, also giving them the sifted ashes 
from furnace; from latter I have seen hens 
pick up small pieces of fresh coal. I 
brought in five eggs to-day from my small 
flock of eight, and eggs are selling for 40 
cents per dozen retail in our town. 
New York. R. e. d. 
“Grace, can you tell me what is meant 
by a cubic yard?” “I don’t know exact¬ 
ly, but I guess it’s a yard that the Cuban 
children play in.”—Boston Christian 
Register. 
He: “Your brother dresses very quiet¬ 
ly.” She: “Does he? You should hear 
him when he can’t find his ties, or his 
collar stud rolls under the chest of draw¬ 
ers.”—Credit Lost. 
“So you were in London, eh? How did 
you find the weather there?” “I didn’t 
have to find it. It came and hunted me 
up and surrounded me in chunks.”— 
Philadelphia Press. 
Teacher: “You will have to bring me 
an excuse for your absence yesterday 
from your father.” Willie: “Aw! He 
ain’t no good on excuses; ma catches 
him every time.”—Puck. 
Teacher: “So you cannot remember 
the names of the great lakes? Can’t you 
keep them in your head?” Johnny: “No, 
mum; if I was to keep them lakes in my 
head I might get water on the brain.”— 
Credit Lost 
She: “You are very depressed. I didn’t 
know you cared so much for your uncle.” 
He: “I didn’t; but I was the means of 
keeping him in an insane asylum the 
last year of his life, and now that he has 
left me all his money I’ve got to prove 
that he was of sound mind.’ —Tit-Bits. 
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