The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-04-05

cause. II animals and plantG live by
food and drink moisture and air how do
they change these qualities into animal
forms or plants.
To know how will be worth millions
to US farmers who feed animals, and will
add millions Of bushels of grain and tons
OF hay to the farmers sale crops We
assert without the least fear whatever of
successful contradiction that large pro-
portion OF the feed produced in Brecken-
ridge county today is wasted-an abso-
lutte loss. Our present methods are
shoCkingly wasteful.
can name men today who do not
pretend to fatten their hogs until they
reach twelve months old. II these same
farmers could only see the small part of
a grain of corn they get the benefit of in
feeding hogs after they get their growth
their eyes would stand wide open in sur
prise. We hope to be able to show
them.
We insist that what the progressive
farmer wants to know is to get MAXI
mum results at a minimum of expense
The agricultural press and the institutes
are doing a great deal to help us.
Well says one, "why is it that DR..
Foote puts so much store on the protein
part of feeding ration ?" Simply be-
cause protein is one OF the most import
ant elements in feeding stuffs, for when
1t is absent in the food, or present in in
sufficient quantities, there can be neither
growth nor complete repair OF worn out
tissue. Every ounce of bone, all the
lean meat, muscle, hair, hide, hoofs,
horns, lungs, feathers, wool, the casein
and albumen in milk are formed and
made up OF the protein in feeding stuffs.
will assert that il is just as important
in balancing rationhand as indispensa-
BILE in feeding stu6s as the frame work
is in the erection of house. l will 90
little farther than that, it would be Just
as much folly for farmer to attempt to
develop pig on a food entirely desti-
tute OF protein as it would be for a car.
penter to attempt to build house with
a million kegs OF nails, plenty Of mortar,
but no lumber.
l heard man say few days ago that
just such talk as this was all theory, and
that it could not be put into practice.
What man OF us can put anything into
practice without he fist has the theory
In his head2 We must first make our
figures, and then work TO them.
The great trouble with the filming
world today is that we are not studying
our business. l asked a farmer, a few
days ago what papers he read ''Noth.
ing but the Courier Journal" was his re-
ply. Well, the Courier-J ournal is a
great paper, but is 1t educating that
farmer In his line OF business ? One
farmer reads q political paper while
another reads an agricultural paper.
The first Is under the tutorship OF
WateFson and Blackburn, the other Is
under Professor Henry and Professor
Kicker Well the former IL trying TO
make Watemon or Blackburn, bat
am inclined 10 think Il would be 10 his
interest TO follow Henry or HsokeE
Brother farmer, II you are In pose ision
OF any knowlsdge that You think would
be OF any benefit 20 the rest OF your class
tell Is about Il tGod has given you a
talent and you wrap Il In a napkin and
hide It In hsld, you know full well the
condemnation. This iu Gods way OF
helping Us, for BY giving II 70 Others 1t