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The Maximum Utilization of Silage in Fattening Baby Beeves

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

The farther one gets from the heart of the corn belt the more important becomes the matter of substituting roughage for grain in fattening all classes and ages: of cattle for market, because of the abundance of roughage and the uncertainty of grain crops.

It has been demonstrated that calves return a greater profit than cattle of any other age, largely because of the cheaper gains which they make and the higher selling price when finished. Calf feeding, however, has not expanded as the practicability of feeding cattle of this age justifies, largely because of a quite generally prevailing idea that calves are more difficult to feed than cattle of any other age and that they will utilize but little roughage. The first objection can be dismissed with the statement that our experiences covering a period of ten years convince us that cattle of no other age feed so easily.