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CARING FOR THE HARE AMD od. Both lots reCeived com silage
v ' COLT ' as the exclusive roughage. The
timp the steers were fed was 113
When Rightly Handled, Marea Can d including the preliminary or
Do - Most of - the - Farm - W ork ana
Raise Valuable Colts Besides
HORSES will never lose their place
on the farm, however much trac
tors and trucks may be used, and the
raising of them will always be a
profitable business. I have found that
the greatest profit comes when the
mares are used to do the most of the
work on the farm as well as for
breeding purposes. Of course, if this
is done, it will be almost necessary
to kefeo draft mares. I have found,
however, that it pays to keep no oth
-nreoaratory-period. -
At first the velvet beans were
ground, but the steers were found to
eat the unground pods so readily
that grinding was discontinued after
the first two weeks of the test.
-Hence this is a comparison oi un-.
ground and unhulled velvet " beans
with cottonseed meal. t.
Beginning with a small amount
of each concentrate, r both rations
were increased until at the close of
the experiment each, steer in one lot
was eating 6.46 pounds of cottonseed
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er kind, anyway. The old idea , tnat meal per day, ana in tne otner lot
any kind of mare will do for raising about 12 pounds, velvet beans. No di
colts has been exploded again and gestive ,or other disorders were evi-'
Mares for breeding should be dent. , -, "
The daily gain per steer was, on the
cottonseed - meal ration, iJdQ pounds
per day and on the velvet beali" ration
1.50 pounds. -
The finish oMhe two lots was re-
a era in.
of good disposition as well as of good
wpicybt. The colt will be much like
o
the dam in disposition.
In fair weather the mare should be
nltnwed to foal in'a clean pasture. If
the weather is bad, she should foal in garded as equally good, and no' ap-
a clean stall, free from danger of any
infectious diseases. The bedding -ought
to be dry and perfectly clean.
Colts foaled on dirty bedding in a
foul stall are in danger of being in
fected with p navel ill, a disease that
kills many Colts each spring. It is
more necessary that the mare have
rest after foaling than just before.
I have worked my mares right - up to
foaling tittle with no harmful results,
but it will' not do to t work the mare
fof several days after foaling. The
mare will not want much feed for the
first few days. When she begins eat-,
ing heartily she should have plenty
of milk-producing feeds, such as oats
and bran. Little corn should be given
unless the weather is cold. For rough
age I find legume hays best. I prefer
to give the oats and bran in a warm,
wet mash. Feed the mare regularly,
preciable difference between the car
casses wer found by-the packing
house experts.
The amount of food required to
make 100 pounds of gato was as fol
lows :
lot No. 6 ' j Pounds
Cottonseed meal ,............ 258.18
Corn silage ................... .2408.58
Lot No. 7 -
.. Velvet beans in pod........ 63F.12
Corn silage ............. ......,,1654.76
From this it appears" that about
two and one-half pounds of velvet
beans in the, pod Itook the place of
each pound of cottonseed meal. But
the final comparison is somewhat
more favorable to the velvet beans,
since the ration containing the hulls
ofthe beans resulted in reducing by
about one-third the amount of corn
silage required for making 100 pounds
of gain.
POWER
. ini nunwirnilii ii7nTiMl
At t1 C na tn
1 J 1. -1 ,U1'1Uf" lUU iWl,WV,5l UCU 111 IUC
? u v y pod per ton for cottonseed meal,
in tne ration. a 7 en .a,, .-i.u-
umu yb.v lUJi VUUt sildC) lilt;
When the colt is a week old it will
probably be best for both it and the
mare to be put on pasture. They
should be brought to the barn each
flight for some little while, however.
If the marje and Colt are doing well
the mare may be worked in two of
three weeks after foaling. Increase
the corn in her ration when you be
gin -working her. I prefer to leave
the colt in the barn when working:'
the mare. I bring the mare to . the
barn at noon, and let the colt suckle.
If the mare should be kept away all
day, the udder might get too full, and ,
the colt would perhaps gorge himself
at night. After the first day or two,
the mare will work better when the
colt is away.
KOLB PERKINS.
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cost of making 100 pounds of gain
was practically the same for the two"'
lots, namely, $7.52 for the cottonseed
lot, and $7.77 for the lot fed on velvet
beans.-
Making allowance for the saving
in corn Silage in the velvet bean ra
tion, a ton of velvet beans in the hullj
was worth jn this experiment about
half a ton of cottonseed nieal.
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Feeding Value of Velvet Beans
THIS isa large subject on which
there is comparatively little accu
rate data, A distinct contribution
to our knowledge of the value of vel
vet beans is made by G. S. Templeton
and E. Gibbens, in Bulletin No. 192,
ust issued by the Alabama Experi-'
tnent Station, This gives the results
of feeding experiments - made with
steers on a plantation located on the
line of Hale and Marengo Counties in
the prairie, or lime region of central
Alabama.. ' 'C- . " '
Forty steers were furnished by the
owner, Judge B. M. Allen, and the ex
perimental f ending was done by Mr,
Gibbensassistant Husbandman of the
Experiment- Station. The total num
ber of steers fed in the entire series
of the experiments on this farm dur
ing the winter was ,100, but the pres-
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entijoniiexm aeais wun oiuy xnc re
sults secured from two-lots -of 20
steers each, '. . , k V 1
One of these received as its con
centrate the usual ration of cotton
seed meal The coflctntrate for the "
Missouri Sheep Feeder Tells How
; Gains Are Made' s "
R. C. G. $tarr, who buys and feeds
ATA. several thousand lambs each year
in a taiic to tne Missouri sheep feed
ers at the University of j Missouri
said:
"To be a successful feeder requires
more use of brains than any other
line of agriculture.
'The successful feeder must be on
the watch for things to happen in the
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varcin Deing punctual with break
fast for. lambs will do wonders.
lhe greatest trouble we have in
feeding is to induce our partners and
(.usiwiucis iaj icci pieniy. jno one
ever made sheep fat by stunting them.
"Lambs really, do best in drv into
when the feeding begins too late to
use green blades of corn and
They have a disposition to wander
and will not stay with the feed unless
more or less closely confined.
'Enough troughs should be provid
ed for grain feeding so that all can
get all the grain thev desiri-.
"The water should alwavft fi trU
and clean ; have plenty of it in enough
troughs so that sheeo can eauilv drltil.
" "Pieniy of corn is alwave nmmAA
Cottonseed meal is Very useful -ts-
Fvianjr wiicu Biiagc IS USCO. A pound
of silage per head per day is -about
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