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| AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.X- .. * . ■ft •//'ft•/#•#/•//■//'tf'ft'ft • // 'tt'a•i* %%* % %•CATTLE FEEDING TEST.Prof, Murr.fcrd Markets 34 Steers and Finds Advantage in Use of Self Feeders and Mingled Grain and Roughage.—Prof. Herbert W, Mumford ha* fin-i/*hed another cattle feeding experiment. On Thursday, November 2c*. he marketed in Chicago 31 head of ,«teers averaging 1313 pounds at $5.60. When bought in i Chicago last fall these rattle averaged 1073 pounds and cost $4.25.The cattle were fed in two lots, bothreceiving corn meal, oil meal and clover hay. One lot received these feeds a/ter the common method of feeding, while for the other lot the clover hay was chopped (cut into two-inch length by being run } through an ordinary ensilage1 machine at j a cost of about $1 per ton) and mingled , with the grain part of the ration. This , mixed feed was then fed in a aelf-feeder to which the cattle had access at all times.Good Use of Self Feeders.Prof. Mumford has been working on a plan of mingling roughage and concen-Iof the city on the Ixroy road, has already made a King road drag, and his neighbors. Mr. Goetach and W. and A. Chambers, have agreed to make and use drags ' upon all the road from Mr. Sayers' house i to the corporation of Bloomington. Mr. Joseph Stokes, living the other side of Mr. Sayers Is also expected to dray the ( road on to hia house. These men »11 I milk in Bloomington and are Interested to improve the road that they have to haul over. JThis piece of road also forms part of rural mail route No. 3. This Is a very practical move to make, and no doubt | will prove of much advantage if the dragging Is faithfully can led out. The Pant a graph would like to record reports | of this kind from hundreds of localities in central Illinois.Mr. S. B. Mason has also promised to make and use a drag upon the road1 in thf* vidlnity of his farm In Dowms towm-shtp.FARM NEWS~AND NOTES.—Mr. M. M. Spence, of Fairbury, got $4.92% for 306-pound hogs In Chicagolast week
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Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 01, 1905
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