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Page Ten THE McHENRY PLAINDEALEH Thursday, November 16, lyi CATTLE ON FEED ARE UP; MARKET PRICES MAY RISE . . . Cattle feeders (and beef consumers) got some important news in October. It was the USDA quarterly report of cattle on feed. The news was about neutral. It was neither strongly bullish nor strongly bearish. The report covered t w e n t y - s :x p r i n c i p a l r a t t l e - feeding states. It gave estimates of numbers, classes and weights of cattle off feed and a forecast of the number of fed cattle to be marketed in this fourth quarter of 1961. According to the report: marketings of fed cattle in this last quarter of the year Will be about 5 percent greater than they were a year before. This increase would not be excessive. It could be offset by the increase in consumer buyirtg power this fall compared with a year ago. But there are other price factors on the bearish side. One is that beef may get some 5 to 10 percent more competition from pork than it did last year. Another is 1hat the supply of turkey is 20 to 25 percent larger than it was a year ago. Everything considered, it appears unlikelv that prices for fed cattle, will be ns high this fall as they were lasl fall. Last year prices of Choice steers at Chicago averaged about $25 in October $26 in November and $27 in December. A year aeo the fat cattle market was in a four-month rising trend which carried prices for Choice steers from $24.80 in September to $27.42 in January. The rise of fat cattle, prices last fall covered only four months - an unusually short period. The deteriorating business situation a year ago probably had some price-depressing influence on the fat cattle market. This year the price rise beean from a monthly low of $22.38 in July. If business continues to improve, we would expect prices of fat cattle to work upward for several months. Competition from pork, turkeys and broilers is expected to ease off considerably after the holiday season. It seems dangerous, however, to bet that prices for choice steers will go as high as the $27.42 average posted last January. But let us get back to the report of cattle on feed Oct. 1. The total number in feedlots in the twenty-six states was estimated at 5,551,000 head. That is 8 percent more than a year ago. Most of this increase was in the com belt, where numbers on feed were up 14 percent. By contrast, the number on feed in the western states was down 2 percent. The ten leading states in cattle feeding, with the percentage fed in each state, were as follows: Iowa, 21 percent; California, 14 percent; Nebraska, .11 percent; Illinois, 8 percent; Colorado, 6 percent; Minnesota, 5 percent; Kansas and Arizona, 4 percent each; and South Dakota and Missouri; 3 percent each. L. H. Simerl Department of Agricultural Economics LAUNCH PROGRAM TO REDUCE TRAIN. VEHICLE CRASHES A nation-wide program to reduce the number of motor vehicle-train accidents has been launched by the National Safety Council. The program will be directed by the newly-formed committee on motor vehicle traffic safety at railroad grade crossings of the Traffic Conference of the Council. Collisions of .motor vehicles with trains cause a disproportionate number of deaths and injuries, said Howard Pyle, council president. They annually destroy more than 1.300 lives, cause 3.500 disabling injuries and result in losses of millions of dollars. "Most or the committee's educational work will be directed to the driver of the family auto," said George M. Dempsey. assistant superintendent of safety for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad and chairman of the committee: "Private autris are involved in 73 per cent of the motor vehicle-train crashes." Improved traffic law enforcement at railroad crossings, uniformity of state laws governing vehicle friovement at crossings, school and inter-city bus safety at crossings and safer operation of commercial vehicles of all kinds are among the objectives of the group. The committee will encourage state, county and municipal police agencies to increase enforcement efforts directed at law violations at railroad grade crossings. Many Disobey Warnings "Reports from trainmen from all parts of the country show a serious increase in the number of drivers of school buses and trucks carrying EH OE PARFlSi RJfeSl SPRAY VISIT IN EAST Harold Nye left Nov. 5 to attend a school of bank management at Princeton, N. J. His wife flew there to join him on the tenth, and together they visited his brother-in-law and sister, Capt. and Mrs. Craig Baldwin, at McGuire Air Force base. Later, they spent a few days sight-seeing in New York City before returning home. TOO auu MAVI AMJOU WHfUVflt TOO 00 /YIKHI CQNQWU MMI SO UTTU BOOM fid V@2a ssd caioous SHUTS 1)3 caes CS an RAOMNCI rea CBSM A I Devastating oa Apmpos Side Glance Ce&tUU so MILLSTtiAM •'Walgreen Agency" 3720 W. Elm Street, Jewel Shopping Plaza flammable and explosive products who fail to obey the various laws which require that they stop for all railroad crossings," Dempsey said. "The number of near misses because of the failure of school bus drivers to stop at railroad crossings is alarming. We know from experience that one of these mornings we can expect to read ol' a train-school bus crash which has snuffed oui the lives of twenty-five to thirty youngsters. "Our committee will work lo prevent this needless loss," he stated. Dempsey said special efforts will be made to place educa* ttonal materials in the Hands of school bus drivers and drivers of truck.* carrying flammable or explosive materials. This Business - Farming Marty se 1 f-m a d e men' knocked off work too soon. Few farmers can afford to pay $2,730 for a boar, but veterinarians at Virginia Polytchnic Institute know of one who did. Actually, the . farmer paid $50 for the boar and thought he had a bargain. Along with the boar came the disease, "leptospirosis." The boar was bred to forty purebred sows and at farrowing time all 280 pigs were born I dead or very weak. ! When these sows were bred 1 again, only half of them had pigs, so twenty sows had to be ! replaced. Figuring the 280 pigs at $5 each, this was a loss of $1,400 The loss on the sows came to $1,280 and the cost of the boar was $50, for a total of $2,730. In addition there were drug costs and losses resulting from interruption of the production schedule. The cost of preventing this tragedy would have been about $15 for a blood test. , When buying breeding stock, check the history of the herd, and be sure the animals are free of atrophic rhinitis, virus pig pneumonia, transmissible gastrenteritis, and external parasites.* Feed dealers can help their customers by steering them to the light sources fur breeding stock. ! The veterinarian can help j with blood testing and various j c i i s e a s e c o n t r o l p r o g r a m s . I Teamwork here is important. Feeding sprouted oats to dairy cattle in an experiment caused no apparent nutritional improvements in the cattle on the test rations. During the last 100 years there have been several periods when some kind of apparatus to sprout oats for feeding has been available to farmers. At 1 present there are several sprouted oats machines or hydroponic units on the market. If any advantages do exist for these machines, they must be very small or inoperative under normal conditions of cattle management, researchers believe. Sprouted oats did not increase milk production during tests when fed in addition to a usual heavy grain ration, but they did increase production when the cows were fed a limited amount of grain. The cows responded only when slightly underfed. The digestible energy and digestible dry matter of the sprouted oats was less than that of the original oats. The sprouted oats contained less TDN and showed a 10 per cent decrease in digestibility due to sprouting. In the trials, 16 per cent of the original dry matter of the oats was lost -in converting it to the sprouted product. The best investment a cattleman can make this winter is to make sure his cattle are fedrthe extra protein supplement they need. Lack ol protein is still one of the most common nutritional deficienc ies encountered during the win ter. Experiments have shown that for every dollar spent for needed protein supplementation dur ing the winter, a cattleman can expect two dollars in increased returns. EDDIE the EDUCATOR says SALES Sale* and us* lam provide $6% of Illinois' J tale revenue. They could extend in areaV-not covered. Revenue reform it essentia^ ' Illinois Education Attociation HOTTEST Tl imm Jet Mfd CM! lions! dLUN-Ata. to eliminate clogged! nozzejd, oDuMe, M|rus| For a eSoaEi©/ hottor^flfirajQl (hoot units for everj? drop . . . and qM N@ iXTHA €@§T # # . insist wj/v.i glut Jot or Help Jot. HESTE 4) (/?Z 1 SHOP AT HOME DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK POULTRY GUARANTEE ... I# you or* not completely satisfied in evory way with your poultry purchase, wo will pay you DOUBLE your money back--we're so sure of our "Pick - of - the - Flock" Turkeys, Ducks, Cornish Hens, Geese, Capons or Roaster, that we dare make this sensational offer! Buy your Holiday bird with confidence, shop A&P! (Offer expires Wednesday, November 92 nd.) 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