The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-04-20
OUR RURAL TOPICS.
Some Practical Suggestions for Our
Agricultural Readers
Young People on The Farm.

time farm boys and girls are Aattening their
noses against the window glass looking out ss
the desolate fields and sky, and wishing how
earnestly that they could be with the city chill
dren and could see the lights the show and the
brilliant streets. They wish beyond anything
that they could go somewhere. anywhere. away
from the drear mouotony. Meantime IN their
breasts is forming the firm resolve to get away
from tho country and into the city the very
hour their wings are strong enough to iy away
from the home nest. Well, shall We blame
them? Farm life in Winter in too many homes
is anything but an attractive one. Yet 10
might be made vastly better than it Is, even
by the poorest farmer. Agrioulturists some
times practice economy in a grinding, penny
wise way that is the mistake Of their lives. Il
Is bitter mistake not to provide their chill
dren with thu best of that food which can Be
had SO sbundantly in the country. The deli
cacies should not Do sold of and the children
placed upon skinned mill and bacon diet.
Children should be- encouraged to take in
terest in plants and animals watching their
growth and tending them. If farm parents
allowed their young people a pecuDiary IN
terest In the calves, chickens, lambs and pigs
they tend it would give life new zest. There,
too. is the reading matter, which is so scarce
In many farm home. We have seen homes
where there no reading matter, especially
that which pertains to farm work, etc LIS
real economy for farmer by any means to
subscribe for some Of the delightful and edu-
eating newspapers and magazines, which will
make his children love their homes aud their
parents more and be happier and more con-
I'll
instance. 1t Is full Of choice reading It will
teach the children about the late war and what
our soldiers had to suffer for their country, and
The TRIBUNE is also full of useful farm hints
aud helps, and is one of the best papers to have
in any home. The writer knows this from ex-
psrience.-W. r. ORDwAY, Milton, n. Y.
Who Can Tell Her?
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: viii some
kind reader of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE please
inform a comrades wife whore she can obtain
about three tiny trees of the crab-appls spscies5
They grow wild; are never cultivated, and
have very small. hard, green, round apple.
extremely sour, but delicious preserved. Would
also like to know where l can obtain some
pomegranits slips or roots, and ounce roots or
cuttings. Answers very gratefully acknowl-
edged by Box So, Clearwater, Kan.
A Start for the Poultry Business.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: am az old
soldier, now 81 years Of age, and am unable to
do manual labor on account of disability. I
am compelled to do something for a livelihood,
in spite of the fact that my right arm and leg
are useless. am seriously thinking Of en-.
barking in the poultry business, and with that
in view would like to call upon your readers to
assist me Ia some way II they can possibly do
so. l viii not ask them for money, but II they
can send me few sittings Of some good breed
Of chickens to help me get sstart will be very
thankful to them. Ifthers would be any way in
which can return the favor I should DO very
glad to do SOD. W. JACKS, Catlin, Ind.
Plans for an Incubator.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNEI VIII yea
through the columns of The NATIONAL TRrsL
UEE give instructions how to make an incuhs-
tor2 If you cannot tell how to make one, give
temperature one should be kept, and obligs
an old subscriber-C. FARRow.
THE temperature should be kept as near 1o4S
as possible. We would much prefer having
some of our readers send Us plans Of home
constructed machines, with the success attain
ed.-EDIroR NATIONAL TRIBUNE.l
ManuriaI Value of Food Products.
OF the composition of different kinds sf
animal food a certain portion is digestible and
assimilated by the animal, while the remainder
passes off as exerementitious matter and has
a value fertilizing material. In the crops
grown upon the farm this question would
hardly enter into consideration as a governing
factor in the line of production, but in case ID
becomes necessary to purchase food produetA
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matter becomes of Importance, since the COM
bined values-that is, the feeding value and
manurial value-of different foods do not bear
the same proportion to the cost. The feeding
value of food is its value for supporting the
animal to which it is fed and influence IN in
creasing milk or butter product in the COW,
pork in the hog, eggs in poultry, etc. The
manurial value depends upon the component
parts of nitrogen. phosphoric acid, potash and
fiber that contains some carbOnaceOus matter.
But by feeding some of this substance is appro-
priated, and yet much remains to be applied to
the soil. Now if the value of the combined
values remained the same in all kinds OF food
when compared to the commercial value OF the
food, it would make but little difference to the
farmer what kind of food he purchased when
necessary, for the results would be the same;
that is; il more was digested and consumed in
one kind than in another. then there would 90
less value of the manurial residue and it would
DO simply plain question that gain to the
animal would mean loss to the soil, and vice
versa.
OF course it is understood that these results
come from scientific analyses, feeding expert
ments ETC., and while they may not be absO-
lutely correct are sufficient to convey the
meaning intended in the consideration Of this
subject. Now by analysis cotton seed meal has
a manurial value of $26.66 per ton; applying
feeding tests and we have q feeding value OK
S45 per ton with manurial value Of the resi-
due of $18 Is per ton. making combined value
of 500. Is per ton. $36.47 per ton in excess OF
the original manurial value of the food If only
used for that purpose. Applying the same
rule to Indian corn, its original manurial value
is $3.50 per ton, its value for feeding, S23 per
ton and the value of manurial residue S4.52 or
combined value S27.5s. Here are two cases,
and by taking the market value of each, cOtton-
seed meal at. say, $26 per ton and cOrnmeal ct,
saw $50 we have in feeding gai:. of S43.13 or
$26 for cottonseed meal, with only 1852 gain
on $40 for the cornmeal, which shows the
necessity of studying the matter of feeding
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