The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-09

gay that they must send good iuN.
well and honestly packed, if they tX-
rerL to receive saIi, factory returns.
Il will only pay to export apples oil
the finest quality and appearance.
The Alliance circular to The farm
ers advising them to hold back then
wheat has provoked a good deaf Of
comment favorable and Otherwi s-..
la il4elf there is nothing wrong about
the cirrnIar, ana thf +nd II aims at II
good. This IL nothing more than I"
encourage. farmers TO withhold ne
bulk uI III, crop from the market un
iii i!,r iriGt has advanced 10 such
point as IuakHr IL certain that there
will be no vide margin left Tor specu-
latora. II the crop should be sold al
present prices it would go into the
hands of the latter class, and there De-
held until the price had reached its
highest limit, so that the consumer
would not be behtited at all, and the
legitimate profit Of the producer
would 90 to the Speculation. The A.
lance does not advise Il CORNER"
Bearing directly upon the question:
of the relation or tue value OF the
mauuriai product to the cost Uf Iced
ing, which we have alluded to III
another paragraph, some recent tH-
perin,eul~ at Amherst are of inteIts 81.
Tr,.fe '.-t- IA - car. ful feeding re-
suited in Iho =! oducLiUn OF beef at
cost, per pound of grain, OF . cents
with ona=ytar old steers, ar 81 Z ~
cents with two-year-Old steers. or
course, there can not be much proht
| in that, at present prices, il there IL
10 other source OF gain; but the mau-
urial value of the food consumed was
| accurately determined, and, deduct
ing this, the net cost of producing n
| hound OF beef was reduced to 2S2
! with oue-year-Oid steers, and > Us
with tlyn-year-plds. This, it will be-
seen, leaves very good margin oil
profit, and IL will also be noted That
| hV this process Of estimating the sec
ond years growth is made at a less
net cost than th4 fir t years. This l.
explain d 10y the fact that greater
| pr0pnrtion of tie fGCd IL as i1nilatrd
by the animal during the earlier
stages of growth:
Whatever may he the other con-
ditiuns necessary Tor successful sheep
| growing, one thing is certain, sheep
Gust have dry coil. \ rocky hill
! side is better for them than the rich
est Of low-Iying and always moist
lands. In making our scit elton oil
! breeds we must have reference "a
th-iF origin and apeHsthned AGAt'"f
and to uiir ability ia supply in he"
!ncaiity The Conditions trat are Eects'
s4ry To the nIaiutainauce or the
characteristics that have been de
veIoped 10y the originators. II We
can not supply these 10 some &c IL
ait!erubln Il, gree We can not we'll tX-
pcrt Ia nuintai:i or inIoHsify Tao is're
in feeding sheep it luIst he X. ut III
mind that bile they VIII consume
much "roughncss" or cnalsa fodder
and even such "a has been pickles.
over and left by other animals, they
will also respond to good feeding IA
well and as uNicEiy ID RuN ether {"
! our domestic animals. GRAIN ah'
clover are appreciated; and whatever
the amount of rough food allotted Il
them, there should never be Il failure
to even up the ration with suitable
allowance of grain and other gooC
food. > bOve all other animals they
need an ample supply OF succulen
food at all seasons of the year, and
hence roots, especially turnips, anC
ensiIage should be provided for then
throughout the winter, ROOTS assis
more than any thing else to make the
winter feeding of sheep profitable.
We have all learned that there is 1
vast difference i'm the values or com
mercial fertilizers and 80 we now lool
closely to the guaranteed analysis
Our next step Of progression will h'
to learn that there is an equal difier
ence in the value of barnyard ma
nure out Of straw alone. The value
OF ton OF barnyard manure depends
primarily upon the kind OF feed 1t il
made from. Bran is very valuable
for this purpose, because it Is rich il
the three elements which give value
to fertilizers. Corn meal is not 81
rich in these elements, hence manure
made from feeding corn is not 81
valuable as that made from feedins
bran. Timothy and clover hay
make more valuable manure thar
J straw, because they are richer
: in three ferliIizing elements. Thus
with farmer who considers a
all the value of his manure, this ques
: ton has All important bearing in de
terminiug what to feed. An apparent
Iy expensive ration may be the cheap
est IN the end, because 1t returns thu
greatest value to the land; and 1T il
: Just as well to buy your fertilizer an'
your feed in one as in two parcels
Our space here is too brief to pefmi
an elaborate treatment of this sub
iect, but we would advise our reader
to procure some standard book ant
study up upon it during the lonl
winter evenings that are coming.
2 j. r. f.