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cows now rather than in the fall and consider getting rid of those to calve late In 1967. If you have to sell young cattle, take another look at those replacement heifers. If you must sell calves let the heifers go - perhaps even the lightest steers - those that can’t possibly make 300 pounds by fall even if pastures were 100% normal. If you have fields providing better grazing than others - give the best to cows suckling calves. A dry cow can get-by on skimpy pastures. Creep feeding calves, based on research, has generally paid when; (a) pastures are short, (b) cows are old, (c) first calf heifers or (d) when the cattleman is selling a specialty such as purebreds for seed stock at premium prices. CONSERVE FEED, FEED JUCIOUSLY AND BUY WISELY Forage is'the primary feed for cattle. Unless you have over half, the forage you normally need for winter don’t feed it now. Feeding some grain now on skimpy pasture likely will be less costly. Cattle can get by on 50% of a forage ration in winter plus grain (cow 10 lbs hay equivalent plus 4 lbs. grain.) With hay at 2 1/40 and grain at 3 1/20 you would save 6 1/20 per cow per day on her winter ration by buying grain rather than buying hay. Whether you can feed the grain as cheaply as you can hay?; or whether you have facilities for feeding grain are other points to consider. (These prices may not be actual; rather they serve only as a guide line,) however 4 lbs. farm grains can replace ten pounds of average hay in a cows daily ration allowance. Save straw (small grain or orchard grass) . . both will ilin ar.owKl,|Q% T.D.N. rj< Prepare to handle feed with as little loss as possible to rats and in the feeding process. Don’t let mud - there will be some next winter - swallow a mouthful of grain or forage Intended for livestock.
Buy on basis of protein content, or a T.D.N. content, which ever you are after. Don’t buy purely on a cost oer ton or 100 lb. bag.
CONSERVE WATER Many farmers would be without livestock water were it not for forethought evidenced by construction of farm ponds in past years. -Need I say to forget washing cars, watering shrubs, trees, etc. This may
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