Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1914 — PRACTICAL FEED LOT NOTES [ARTICLE]

PRACTICAL FEED LOT NOTES

Keep Salt Where Cattle Can Get It Instead of Mixing With Feed—Have Regular Feeding Time. A good, plan is to keep salt where cattle can get at it when they want it instead of mixing with the feed. A steer generally knows what he wants better than the feeder himself. Always feed fattening cattle to the minute as near as possible. To keep them waiting an hour after the usual feeding time causes a loss of weight. Why is it that so many locate their feed lota, in the lowest ground on tbS farm? Now that the big western ranges are passing away the supply of beef for the future must come from the farms. Better get ready to supply the demands. Hogs, sheep and cattle may be forced to upon the same rations, but they will not all thrive, alike. There is an indescribable feeling when you touch the skin of a highclass feeuing steer, that, once recognized, Is never forgotten. Skim milk with ground corn and a little bright hay will make calves hump. 'v.