The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-30

For Milch Cows-Interesting ExperIra ents
Made at the Ohio Agricultural Experi-
mcnt Station A Comparison of the
Efficiency of Commercial and Green
Manures on Wheat.
A bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station, now in press, gives
the results of an experiment in feeding
| sugar beets to milch cows, made during
the past winter, together with sum-
mary of two similar experiments, one
made by the station in 1889 and one by
the farm department Of the Ohio State
University in 1879.
In the last named experiment eight
COWS were kept under test for eleven
weeks; in 1889, twelve cows for eight
weeks, and in $780, twelve COWS for nine
weeks, the COWS in each case being
weighed daily, as we'll as their feed and
milk.
In each of the three experiments the
COWS ate more hay and more total dry
matter when feeding on beets than on
other foods (hay, meal and bran in 1870,
corn silage in 1889 and 1S90) and in each
case more milk was given from the beets
than from the other foods, but it is not
yet demonstrated that the increase OF
milk was produced economically.
For twelve years records have been
kept on the farm now occupied by the
station, which shows that the average
yield of beets over this period has been
nearly sixteen tons per acre, against an
annual yield of about fifty-five bushels
of shelled corn per acre.
But crop of fifty-five bushels of
shelled corn, with its fodder, will con-
tain nearly twice as much dry matter as
sixteen tons of beets and these expert
ments indicate that whether fed dry, as
corn meal and dry fodder, or as corn
ensilage, the dry matter of the corn crop
will be found about as effective, pound
for pound, as the dry matter OF the beet
crop.
1t Is possible to raise much more than
sixteen tons of beets to the acre. One
crop of two acres is reported at 371a
tons per acre, and smaller areas have
given still larger yields, but such crops
require very rich land and thorough cul-
ture. Whether it is possible to produce
a pound of dry matter in beets as eco
nomically as it can be done in corn is
not yet definitely settled, but the proba-
bilities are against 1t.
COMMERCIAL AND GREEN MANUREs FOR
WHEAT.
In an experiment made by the North
Carolina Experiment Station, a series of
plots was laid out in such manner that
one end of each plot should be on land
on which COW peas had been previously
plowed under, and the other end ON land
without peas. The whole was sown to
wheat, and kainit, acid phosphate and
cotton seed meal were applied to the
several plots, singly and in combination,
two plots being left without any fer
tilizer. ot
Thesresult was that on tho land which
had had no fertilizer the highest increase
of any of the fertilized over the un-
fertilized plots was four bushels per
acrr (for 800 pounds cotton seed meaD.
while on the green manured land the
increase from the pea vines was from
six bushels at the least to fifteen bushels
per acre, averaging ten bushels.
Worse aud more of it.-Irate Poll
acian--"Look here, you published lie
about me this morning-an Infamous
lie. won't stand it." Serene Editor
-"But just think where you would be
II we were to publish the truth about
you. "--Terre Hauts Express