The Kansas Stockman from Topeka, Kansas • 7

June 15, 1922 THE KANSAS STOCKMAN PAGE SEVEN These results indicate that there is little difference in linseed oil meal and cottonseed meal as a protein supplement for lambs except that lambs fed linseed oil meal outsell those fed cottonseed meal, indicating that lambs fed linseed oil meal will show more bloom and finish at the end of equal feeding periods than those fed cottonseed meal. (f) Does it pay to feed silage with alfalfa to lambs that are being fattened for market? Two tests are summarized in the following table: properly balance a fattening ration. They also indicate that where comparative small numbers are fed it is more economical to hand-feed than to self-feed. (d) Can lambs be fed as satisfactorily and as profitably without as with a rich protein supplement? A test in which both linseed oil meal and cottonseed meal and neither were added to a fattening ration gave some interesting results: lambs. The self-fed lambs brought a slightly greater price per hundred indicating a slightly better finish, but the selling price per hundred did not begin to pay the greater cost of gains.

Thee results indicate that it is not economical to allow lambs free access to linseed oil meal which is usually high priced because they will eat larger quantities than is necessary to ALFALFA II A V. ALFALSFA II A AND S1LA(E rr. c.O nPHOTKIX SI I'PLKMKXT VS. XO PROTEIN SUPPLEMENT "3 o. v.

2 i to rt- 3 2 C. PftO 0 C0v-l it .27 Pi .29 Daily gain per head Selling: price per cwt .40 PC. IT? 3 $11.15 Si.01?. or 3 3 .40 $15.02 $19-00 The results of one test are given in the following table: 05 -0 53 (p rt- .34 $17.56 $18.75 (g) Can sweet clover hay be used satisfactorily as a substitute for alfalfa hay. V.

ALFALFA IIA1 V. SWEET CLCtVF.lt HAY .28 $19.44 $18.50 50 si 5. -5 Poo 3 o. Pd So 1 .37 Dailv ain per head Cost of 100 lbs. gain Selling price per cwt Each lot received shelled corn, alfalfa hay, and silage.

The lot to which linseed oil meal was added gained .40 pounds per head per day, cottonseed meal .34 pound per day, but where neither was added .28 pound per day. The cost of 100 pounds gain where linseed oil meal was fed was $15.02 a hundred; where cottonseed meal was fed, $17.56 a hundred; where neither was fed, $19.44. A further value of adding a protein supplement is shown in the selling price per hundred, as those receiving linseed oil meal sold for .39 242.00 Daily gain per head Hay required per 100 lbs. grain: Alfalfa Sweet Clover Selling- price per cwt $19 a hundred, those receiving cottonseed meal $18.75, and those receiving neither $18.50. These results show very strikingly the value of adding a rich protein supplement to a ration used in fattening lambs for market.

(e) Which is the more satisfactory protein supplement in a lamb fattening ration, linseed oil meal or cottonseed meal? The results of the two tests conducted during different years are given in the following table: 272.00 $17.30 $17.30 fellows have carried me for so long they might as well finish the job." These results indicate the fact that sweet clover hay is a very satisfactory substitute for alfalfa hay in a ration for fattening lambs and may well be used in the many localities where alfalfa does not grow but where sweet clover will grow. MEAL AS A PHOTEIX LINSEED OIL MEAL Fall Freshening in Favor The fall-freshened cow produces 10 to 15 per cent more milk than the spring-freshened cow, according to the dairy department of the North Dakota Agricultural college, while the large production of the fall-freshened cow comes at a time when dairy products are highest in price. VS. COTTONSEED SUPPLEMENT CO 3 Mitt Oo So Egs 1 ST CO i fij HI CP CO 01 K6 0.0 ajpn .34 $17.56 $18.75 A Cowman's Will How's this?" asked the lawyer. "You've named six bankers in your will to be pall bearers.

Of course, it's all right, but wouldn't you rather choose some friends with whom you are on better terms?" "No, Judge, that's all right. Those Sa h-(t o. 0 CO-l it- .40 $6.20 $19.00 "Pa, what are ancestors?" "Well, my son, I'm one of yours. Your grandpa is another." Oh! Then why is it people brag about them?" .39 $6.47 $19.15 Daily gain per head .40 Cost of 100 lbs. gain $15.02 Selling price per cwt $19.00 WASH NGTON ANS AN By J.

H. Mercer men as "dope" costs hundreds of dollars every day, and it represents but a very small fraction of the expenses incurred by those who are looking after the interests of the railroads, the steamship companies, and all sorts of manufacturing interests. I refer to these matters simply for the purpose of pointing out that about all the big interests are represented here in Washington and that the item of expenses seems to worry none of them. On the other hand the biggest of all the interests in this country, agriculture and stock raising, has no general organization. Yet in spite of the absence of any special representative constantly on the spot, the live stock men, according to my observation, have accomplished more through the efforts of the men sent here occasionally by them than has been accomplished by any other one branch of the agricultural industry.

Unfortunately there are several agricultural organizations with accredited representatives here who are apparently working at cross purposes. "A house divided against itself must fall." I believe that agriculture should be recognized as of equal importance with "labor." Labor through organization, has obtained for the FOR more than a month I have been in Washington, especially for the purpose of aiding in the passage of legislation to authorize the payment of the losses occasioned by the carelessness of the Federal agents through whose negligence heavy losses were sustained by Kansas farmers and stockmen in the Texas fever outbreak in 1919. Through the persistence and splendid co-operation of Senators Curtis and Capper those claims were recognized as just and a bill to direct their payment was passed in the Senate. It is still pending in the House and I am hopeful that it will be agTeed to and that the president will sign it before the present session comes to an end. During my stay here I have had several conferences, in company with Judge S.

H. Cowan, of Fort Worth, with the secretary of agriculture, members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and with the internal revenue authorities, upon various matters affecting the interests of agriculture and stock raising gener-aiy and especially the interests of the people of Kansas. Perhaps the most important of these conferences w-is that in which Judge Cowan and I had a very satisfactory meeting with or a new hearing on the subject of the provisions of the Uniform Livestock Shipping Contract. My observations during my present stay in Washington have convinced me that great interests like the railroads and the manufacturing organizations and similar interested bodies employ the very best obtainable talent to look after their affairs before Congress and in the Department. I do not charge that those interests use improper arguments or crooked methods to accomplish their ends.

I do not believe these stories of improper activities of the "lobby." Those lobby days passed long ago. But it is unquestionably true that the great industrial concerns are thoroughly organized and that they are liberal in their expenditures in the accomplishment of their, purposes. For instance, I was shown in the office of a newspaper correspondent no fewer than ninety-six pages of typewritten "arguments" in support of some thirty or more matters pending in Congress which had been received that same morning by the correspondent. That vast bundle of information, designated by the newspaper Chairman McChord of the Interstate Commerce Commission, during which we discussed the provisions of the law relating to uniform live stock shipping contracts. What is known as the "Cummins Amendment" to the transportation act defines "ordinary livestock" and also defines the duties of carriers and shippers.

A few months ago the Interstate Commission granted the carriers the right to include in the uniform contracts certain provisions which are in direct violation of the law, as amended by Congress and known as the Cummins amendment. This is especially true as relates to a certain memorandum of the Commission wherein the carrier is granted the right to demand of the shipper "written notice of any claims for damage before the removal of the injured animal or the carcass of any that might be killed shall be removed from the premises of the carrier." This is in violation of the specific provision of the law which gives the aggrieved shipper ninety days in which to file his claim. The result of our talk With Chairman McChord is likely to be the revocation of the order of the Commission,.