Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — AN EXPERT'S NOTES ON CATTLE FEEDING [ARTICLE]

AN EXPERT'S NOTES ON CATTLE FEEDING

Manure is worth considerably more than the labor involved in feeding cattle. Practically half the corn grown In Illinois is shipped out of the state, enough to fatten two million steers. If the manure from these were properly preserved and properly applied to the land, it would increase the producing capacity of the farms of this state $12,000,000. Pasturp is the most expensive cattle feed. Silage makes cheaper beef than anything else. It can be kept throughout the year or two or three years. 1 have never found a man who fed silage to beef cattle that has abandoned it. At the University the beef breeding cows were wintered cheaper on silage and hay than they could be kept in the summer. A silo 18x36 feet Is ample to supply silage six months for 50 steers. A good ration of cotton seed meal or linseed meal is three pounds per day per 1,000 pounds of I fve weight of the arimal. We get more oat of the corn by feeding the meal; the corn 1s digested better.