The Yale expositor., 1896-05-01
Roots for Iowa Stock.

ROOTS Tor iowa STOCK.
Prof. James Wilson, of the Iowa sta
ton, in an address said: The questions
are prominent whether we can main
tain the excellence of imported animals
without roots, and whether perfect
health can be maintained easily with
out them in winter, and what can be
most readily and profitably grown to
keep dairy COWS in milk during Sep
TENDER and October drouths, such as
we had last fall. In order that the
farmers of Iowa might get some facts
regarding root growing, we have been
growing different kinds during the two
years we have been at Ames. Inquiry
was rife whether the state could grow
sugar beets profitably. We have grown
two crops under rigid rule and careful
note-taking, and find that the average
per cent of sugar in the beet was 14.14,
that the average tonnage per acre was
20, that the highest tonnage per acre was
%, that clay soils give the highest per
cent of sugar, that subsoiling gave the
best shaped beets, that early planting
is every way better, and that no fertil-
izer we could buy gave us any benefit.
We have had most success and profit
from growing mangles for stock. They
are healthy, hardy and yield well. They
are valuable for cows, keep well, and
are very acceptable to cattle of all
kinds. The harder varieties of turnips
are good for stock, but seem to be liable
to insect ravages and do not uniformly
give the amount of feed per acre that
mangles do. The yellow turnips sown
in the fall on early potato ground or
on early fall blowing, for early winter
feeding, are valuable. By carefully
preparing new land in the fall and
planting early we can grow the man
gle with very little hand labor, and we
are convinced that it can be proftably
given a place in the Iowa farm system.
Too Much Corn Fed.-People more
and more are demanding bacon and
hams that have not too much fat On
them. They want meat that has a good
proportion Of lean. We have noticed
in the great butcher shops of Chicago
that the dealers have the hardest work
to get rid of the fat pork. This excess
sive fairness comes from feeding too
much corn. People think that 1t makes
no difference in selling hogs, but the
market generally is affected. What
makes Irish bacon the best in the
world IL it be not the food upon which
the hogs are grown? Not having ac-
cess to Indian corn, the Irish do not
feel themselves obliged to feed It al
together.
Market Demands Lighter Hogs
There was time when the market paid
the top prices for heavy hogs, hogs that
weighed between 300 and 400 pounds,
but that day has gone forever. There
has been gradual decline through a
long series of years till now in the west
a $50 pound hog and in the east even as
low as $50 pound hog is the kind de-
manded This Is to the advantage of
the feeder, for he can produce that kind
of hog at less price. 1t is to the adj
vantage of the consumer because he is
surer of getting the lean meat he wants.
United States Cavalry Horses
There are about 1000 horses in the
United States cavalry service. They are
purchased at from $125 to 5000 each.
Seldom does the price go beyond these
in either direction. A gelding is the
only horse that stands show of being
accepted, and he must be very perfect
in all points. Five years Is about the
minimum age, unless the animal has
been handled exceptionally well.
Good Name for 1t.
"My bicycle has been injured in the
w,ndpipe," said Gildersleeve.
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