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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1956
Page
5
King Ranch hosts cattle tour featuring Santa Gertrudis herd as trailers load pellets across fields to avoid bare patches. Mr. Wilson describes cattle bred to grass with grades to good and commercial marketing. three-year-old steers 1400 to 1500 pounds are carryover from a drought, while other stock ranges pasture to Northeast shipping.
A Lancaster County agricultural gathering observed cattle feeding with a mixed pellet diet of five pounds daily since July 15. The blend, corn and barley with protein and molasses extruded into pellets, aims to push cattle toward butcher weight with grass-finished efficiency. Mr Wilson noted cattle Dress 60 percent off grass in some cases and discussed Santa Gertrudis as grass tolerant.
Mr. Watson reports pelletized feed raises beef dressed weight on good pasture to 50.7 percent and 60.3 percent on fertilized pasture. The study compares bluegrass white clover Kentucky 31 fescue cromes orchardgrass ryegrass ladino clovers. King Ranch conducts another ongoing test with a trench silo built in 1955 to study keeping quality.
A Lancaster Farming recounts an industrial tour to King Ranch in Texas with visits to Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms and the Ford Motor Co plant in Chester. The text notes three year silage use, large trench silos, cattle shipped north for market, and the closed breed program at King Ranch.
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