. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. variably eaten first. Thi3 to see which they preferred; then, by careful records, it was found that our grain ration could be reduced 20 per cent and the same re- sults obtained in milk both as to quality and quantity. We figured this paid for the labor in preparing the cut fodder. Try it. _ Age to Feed Cattle. Hazel Kinney 2;0D£ It requires ?bout one-half as much grain to produce a hundred pounds of gain on calves as on two year-olds. The woik of the Missouri Agricultural College has definitely demonstrated that the most profitable age to fatten cattle is whil
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. variably eaten first. Thi3 to see which they preferred; then, by careful records, it was found that our grain ration could be reduced 20 per cent and the same re- sults obtained in milk both as to quality and quantity. We figured this paid for the labor in preparing the cut fodder. Try it. _ Age to Feed Cattle. Hazel Kinney 2;0D£ It requires ?bout one-half as much grain to produce a hundred pounds of gain on calves as on two year-olds. The woik of the Missouri Agricultural College has definitely demonstrated that the most profitable age to fatten cattle is while they are still young. The older the ani- mal the more food is required to produce a given gain. Other stationB have also investigated this question and have ar* rived at the same result. The Central Experiment Station Farm at Ottawa, Canada, found by comparing Feeding Barley Pulp. Assemblyman Atkinson of San Francis- co has introduced in the legislature, un- der the "pure food" classification, a bill which is designed to stop the feeding of barley pulp to milch cows. The bill proposes to amend section 382 of the penal code, relating to the adulter- ation clause: "Every person who feeds his cow, or cows with refuse grain from a brewery or any malt house, after the same had been used in the manufacture of beer, ale or malt, and offers for sale for human consumption, and milk, butter or cheese, which is a product from such cow or cows, is guilty of a ; It is a well known fact .that many of the dairymen of San Francisco purchase the Larley pulp thrown out by the San Francisco breweries and use it as fodder for their cattle. The arrangement is satisfactory to both them and the brew- ers, and the trade in this class of food. Dollexa 2:21l by Alexis Died at San Jese last week. Owned by C. F. White of Cosmopolis, Wash. one thousand pounds live weight in the case of calves, yearlings, two and three- year-olds, that the profit for each one thousand poun
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