. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 114 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED eastern part of the corn belt will generally crowd his calves to rapid growth on a heavy allowance of grain and fatten them as baby beef. Or he will raise no cattle, but fatten feeder steers from the western ranges on a liberal allowance chiefly of corn. On the other hand, in the West, where pasture is cheap compared with grain, the stockman will usually follow a
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 114 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED eastern part of the corn belt will generally crowd his calves to rapid growth on a heavy allowance of grain and fatten them as baby beef. Or he will raise no cattle, but fatten feeder steers from the western ranges on a liberal allowance chiefly of corn. On the other hand, in the West, where pasture is cheap compared with grain, the stockman will usually follow a less intensive system, roughing his growing stock thru the winter and marketing them from grass as 2- or 3-year-olds, having been fed little grain at any time. Milk for our cities must come from the surrounding districts which are within shipping distance. Dairymen maintaining herds on high-. Fig. 31.—Beef Cattle on the Western Range In the range districts of the West pasturage is cheap, but concentrates are high in price. Hence beef cattle are raised on the range and sold as feeders to be fattened in the corn belt or other grain raising districts. (From Breeder's Gazette.) priced land to meet this demand properly tend to use a minimum acreage as pasture, relying largely on corn silage or soilage during the summer months. They often buy much of their concentrates, for grain can be produced on land farther from market and shipped in at less expense than it may be possible to grow it on their farms. Such a system is not, however, economical for the dairyman remote from the large markets, whose milk is used in the manufacture of butter or cheese. He must adopt a less intensive system of dairying, where the herd is maintained largely on pasture in the summer, since with him land is relatively less expensive than labor. The student will realize as he goes on in this book that, while there are no hard and fast rules for successfully managing live stock, a clear understanding of the
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