. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. How is the Country to Increase Its Beet Supply? It is very plainly seen that in the rapid narrowing of the western cattle ranges in public land by entry and settlement, the increase of beef must come from some other source, says the Indiana Farmer. What is it? Plainly, it is a fact that this increase must come through pure-bred cattle. The coantry can come to this aB certainly as it did to pure-bred swine, which is the rule now, and not the excep- tion as in beef cattle. Pure blood will in- crease the beef supply by making 1200 to 1400 cattle in twenty-four mon
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. How is the Country to Increase Its Beet Supply? It is very plainly seen that in the rapid narrowing of the western cattle ranges in public land by entry and settlement, the increase of beef must come from some other source, says the Indiana Farmer. What is it? Plainly, it is a fact that this increase must come through pure-bred cattle. The coantry can come to this aB certainly as it did to pure-bred swine, which is the rule now, and not the excep- tion as in beef cattle. Pure blood will in- crease the beef supply by making 1200 to 1400 cattle in twenty-four months, whereas such beef now requires, as a rule thirty- sis months—that is, the same acres which now produce feed stuffs for 1000 pounds of beef will, with pure-bred cattle, produce 1500 pounds of beef, though growing no more grain or forage. But another condi- tion toward which we are moving rapidly, and which, of course, must add in a marked measure to the additional increase j in beef production, is that of feeding a balanced ration, in which protein, carbo- hydrates and fat are duly proportioned, j and so saving much of the feed products \ now grown on the farm. Corn, now the! chief reliance for feeding in all stages of, livestock growth, is low in protein, but; the latter can be produced abundantly on j the farm by growing the cowpea and soy bean, both rich in protein, and so used as forage to balance corn in its high qualities in the other respects. And so the beef supply is to be increased by pure blood in breeding; by growing protein foods as well as fat and by a large savh g in feed stuffs by using them in ba anced rations. The agricultural colleges and experiment stations are doing a great work along all these lines, and a marked advance is being made by farmers. Live Stock at State Fair. mal Industry at the University of Madi- son, AVib., has been secured to judge all classes of live stock, and Henry Berrar will judge the poultry classes. The State Dairy Convention
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