The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 26, 1911, Page SIX, Image 6
SENATOR B. R. TILLVAAN
ON CATTLE FEEDING
Tells His Brother Farmers of His Re
cent Experiences With Fatten
ing Beef Cattle.
Editor The Record:
Last summer the newspapers had a
great deal to say about my new feed
ing barn and silos which were then
under construction. The campaign for
more manure and better manure is
over and I have felt it worth while t
tell my'brother farmers about it. It
is only by honestly telling our mis
takes that our brother farmers can
get the benefit of experience.
B. R. Tillman.
Trenton, S. C., May 19.
The Senator's Experience.
The feeding of cattle for the maa
ure has become so important and so
Wnteresting to the farmers that I feel
any authentic information ,on the
subject will be welcomed by the peo
ple generally. During the last year I
experimented along this line quite ex
tensively and obtained some valuable
experience for which I paid quite
heavily. I feel that it is a public duty
to let others have the benentt -of tns
experience as it may save some man
less able than myself to stand the
loss from making the satne mistaKes
I did.
I bought 108 steers last October in
Tennessee and fed them until March.
I have kept books on the whole trans
action, so that I am not guessing, ex
cept where I indicate I am estimating.
I have made so many mistakes that I
feel ashamed to confess them, but as
they are the same mistakes that other
men would be likely to make and will
make unless they take warning, I feel
willing to stand whatever ridicule
shall be caused by reading the story.
I shall, if I live, follow up the busi
ness this fall, and I am preparing to
profit by my own 'lunders and write
this to warn others or to help them to
make a success of it.
Now for the figures:
Expenses.
108 steers f. o. b.
Trenton.. .. .. ..$4,251.99
10 cars of hulls.. .. 1,093.72
4 cars 'of cotton seed
meal.. .. .... ...1,165.14
Ensilage in two silos
(estimated).. ......600.00
Freight on meal and
hulls.. .... ......225.50
Total expenses. -.- $7,336.35
Receipts.
1 car steers (26 head)
sold in Washington
at 6c.. .... ...-.$1,502.10
3 cars steers (80
head) sold in Wash
ington at 6c, 5.5c,
5c.... .... .....3,795.29
2 steers sold to local
butchers at 4.5c .. 89.00
Total receipts . .. $5,386.39
Loss.... .-.--.----.--.-$1,949.96
Although I used my best efforts
and sought information from every
available source, I blundered egre
giously in ~buying the cattle. I only
fou.nd this out when I went to sell,
and I then discovered a great man3
dbigs to which I will direct atten
some Errors.
My .farm in Edgefield county is be
low the quarantine 1.ine which the
Uinited States government has estab
liehed and beeves from below tha1
sline can not be marketed anywher4
north of it without a 'handica'p of a
least one-ialf a cent per pound and
the buyers take advantage of that.]
was in Washington when the cattl4
were sold and found out that South
ern cattle have to be sold for "imme
diate slaughter," have to be kept iI
separate pens, and in every way thi
Southern feeder is handicapped.
The cattle were too small, averag
ing when bought 869 pounds; anm
when sold they weighed 937 pounds
In explanation of these weights I wil
say that I give the weights in Ten
nessee when purchased, and I giv<
the weights in Washington when sol<
after four days and nights on th<
cars. If I could have sola at nomo 1
would have been more satisfactor:
and far less loss. I en satisfied somi
of the steers gained less than 5'
pounds each, while others gaine
more than 200 pounds each- Some c
the animals were not of the beef type
although they were grade Herefords
Shorthorns and De'vons a.nd were i.
good thrifty condition whaen purchas
ed.
I weighed three cars of these cat
tie the day they were loaded for mar
ket e ad they averaged 1,030 pounds t
the steer. Fohur days later on th
Washington market these same steer
weighed 928 pounds, or a loss of 10
pounds each.
There were too many cattle for m
feeding barn, which is about 60 fet
by 60 feet and can accommnodat
comfortably only 60 head. I notice
fro te st.,+ thae sma steers wer
better feeders than others; always
hungry, apparently greedy, and would
not be shoved aside, but would
squeeze in and get tbeir share. Oth
ers were puny and timid and would
fall in behind the rest when feeding
time came, and these of course could
not and did not take on flesh as they
ought to have done.
I did not have scales to keep tab
on the gain in flesh month by month
as I should have done and will do
hereafter.
I started with a reasonable amount'
of bedding, mainly pine straw. This,
gave out Christmas and owing to the
demoralization of labor which always:
comes at that season of the year, I
could not get the necessary bedding
and was compelled to turn the cattle
out of the barn, which is situated in
one corner of a four-acre lot. Thus
I lost a great deal of manure.
Value of a Silo.
Last summer I had built two silos
16 feet in diameter and 33 feet high.
One of these was half filled in Sep
tember with corn which would have
made 40 or 50 bushels to the acre run
through a machine and cut into half
inch lengths. The other was filled
three-fourths full in October with sor
ghum, corn after oats, and pea vines
and crabgrass after oats. This last
silage was fed first. I commenced
feeding the steers on October 15 with
pea vines and crabgrass cut and haul
ed direct from the field into the barn
without wilting. I never saw animals
eat anything more ravenously. Be
gan feeding cotton seed hulls and
meal at the start and alternated be
tween hulls and meal and ensilage
and meal daily until the ensilage gave
out. The cattle were crazy to get the
ensilage and never wasted any of it.
They would nose over the hulls and
meal and root down in the troughs so
that from the very start there was
a loss of hulls and meal which were
rooted out of the troughs. This dis
inclination to eat the hulls grew as
the campaign progressed and the su
periority of silage over cotton seed
hulls grew upon me with overpower
ing force.., So I early decided that I
would not buy any more hulls. I now
declare as the result of my own per
sonal experience in' feeding that I
would not haul cotton seed hul-ls five
miles if they were given to me. It is
very certain that no man can afford to
buy hulls at anything like the prices
they have sold for this year, and any
one who intends to carry on the busi
ness of feeding cattle economically
should build a silo. The value of en
silage as compared with hauls can be
estimated by the chemists, but my ob
servation and experience, to say noth
ing of any reading, all teach me that
ensilage can be so cheaply made and
is in every way so superior as a ve
hicle to mix with .concentrates like
,cotton seed meal that any one who
has stock to feed can not afford to buy
hulls at even $4 per ton.
I advocate the growing of sorghum
for ensilage. On rich land the yield
of sorghum is enor'mous, I would say
not less than ten tons per acre, and I
have seen what I thought was a yield
of 20 tons per acre. I believe that
ensilage made of sorghum is fully as
valuable in fattening properties as
ensilage made of corn with the ears
left on and yielding 15 or 20 bushels
to the acre. The seed 'of the sorghum
seems to take the place of the grain
of the corn.
My cattle at all times had access to
a plentiful supply of pure water, and
I always lkept rock salt in .large lumps
in the troughs.
There was a disposition among the
;steers to ride a weakling and I de
Kcied that this was a manifestation'
of nature's way of having only the
fittest survive. Thus it Is important
to have the cattle as near a size as
possible when they go into the barn.
' After a week or two the puny, timid
weaklings must be given a fair sbow
at the food by dividing the herd, put
ting the strong, greedy animals to
Igether and the others in a separate
pen.
IThe figures above show a deficit or
-los of $1.949.96. which is attributa
Sble to the purchase of the cattle when
they were very high and their sale
Swhen they wcre very low. As an off
tset I have the manure, which, owing
to the reasons I have mentioned is
only half as much in quantity as I
)should have. I made 500 loads of ma
Inure hauled out in a manure spreader
fwhich has a bed 17 inches deep, 40
inches wide and 10 feet long. This is
a light four-horse load and is sup
Iposed to be 65 bushels. In addition
:I have four acres of land which was
cow-penned for three months and
-ought to be very rich. I will know
-just how rich when the crop comes.
SA reasonable estimate of the value of
the manure would be $1,000.
s A Few Don'ts.
2Don't feed cattle at all unless yo'u
build a silo or can get hulls at less
;than $5 per ton and have only a short
:distance to haul thetm.
eDon't be alarmed at the cost of a
dsilo. My two, which together wil
e-nrd 260 +ns. niv est all told $500
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