The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-07-25
PROFITABLE FEEDING.

Not Enough Consideration Given to this
Value Of the Manure from Fattcning An.
finals. t1.,
The value of the manure from fatten.
ing animals is matter less within the
positive knowledge of the average farmer
than should be the case. The effect of
different kinds of feed on the value of
manure is also a matter not SO thor.
oughly appreciated as would be for the
advantage of farmers. Much of the
feeding. so far as the value of the ma
nure is concerned. is at haphazard.
Farmers can generally give some idea
as to the best feed for the production Of
pork, beef and mutton. BY the feed
ing of so much corn, hay. oats or bar
ley they expect to make certain guam.
tity of meat. But how much the ma
nure from this will be worth is to many
an unsolyed and often an unthought Of
problem.
The truth is that the value of the ma
nure from tor of some kinds of feed
IS much more certain quantity than
the weight of meat that it will produce.
During the past winter. for example,
the manure heap viii in some cases be
worth far more than anything else OBJ
tanned from the feed. 1t is possible to
make this the fact nearly always, and
that, too, while giving kinds of feed
that are excellent for making fat and
flesh. We have lost much in this country
from our inattention to this point, while
England has profited by the popular
ignorance prevailing in this and other
countries of the varieties of feed essen
tial to making the richest kinds of
manures- Many years ago Sir John b.
Lawes published tables showing the
value of manures made
from ton of the various kinds of food.
Linseed cake and cotton-seed cake stand
at the head of the list. and it is note
worthy fact that for very MANY wears
these 0ilcakes were the staple food for
beef cattle.
In this country fully three-fourths of |
he food given to fattening. or other
stock. is corn. 1t does not become MS |
% speak against corn. Growing and |
eeding it largely are evidences of i'm |
proved farming. We rather exalt our
elyes on the fact that farmers here can
row corn, while those in England can |
lot. But, after all, corn is not among
he more valuable feeds for manure.
specially on lands requiring phos-
'hates, as most OF our long cultivated
oils do. What has been called the
snglish farmers prejudice against feed
ng corn is possibly recognition of
his fact. According to Mr.. Lawes'
ables, based on values in England, the
manure from ton of Indian corn meal
an be worth only $6.65. That from
on OF hnseed cake is worth 1872,
rom beans 1855, and from peas
1910. The manure from a ton of
lover hay is worth 1865. while that
rom coarse to fine wheat middlings
aries from sl3.53 to $3.50. These
CURES are very suggestive They
how not only that many kinds of feed
ave more value as manure than corn,
ut that some of these are worth more
II the manure alone than the money
alue OF their cost 1t is not unconi.
ION to have wheat bran selling very
ear to what it is worth as manure even
the East. At the West it can often
, purchased for $40 or S1I per ton in
re fall IL must be remembered. that
e above figures are made in England,
4 the matter of comparative values is
Iually applicable here.-N v Herald