The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-22
LATEST SALTWATER BULLETIN
Contains Advice on Tree Planting
and COOlkin StOck-Eeed

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Guthrie. o. T., Nov. 21.-The latest bull
letin issued by the agricultural expert
ment station at Saltwater is as follows:
Few things can be done that will add
more to the beauty and comfort of home
than the planting and cultivation of a
number of shade trees about the house
and yard There are several kinds of
trees that grow along streams and in
timber belts that if planted and cared for
will make fine shade trees. The common
red and slippery elms, when transplanted
young and well attended, grow very tall
The box-elder, while not a beautiful tree,
grows rapidly and makes a dense shade.
The silver and red. or soft NAPLES grow
very rapidly and make good shade trees
They are rather easily broken by the
wind and for this reason it is best to
head them back for a few years. When
wen cared for, few trees win make better
shade in the same length of time. The
catalpa grows very rapidly and is well
worth planting. The common black or
wild locust grows rapidly and is fine
tree for wind breaks and general grove
planting. Little trouble need be had in
planting and growing any of the above
trees. Nursery-grown trees should be
used when they can be obtained. Trees
one or two years old when transDlanted,
have given the best results. In no case
have trees taken from old stumps and
with poor roots given satisfaction. Shade
trees respond to cultivation as quick as
any plant and will make a very poor
growth unless the soil about them is kept
loose and free from grass and weeds.
(Bul. 4S. Oklahoma experiment station.
The rainfall at the Oklahoma expert
ment station for the current year has
been 29.73 inches I'D to November Il.
There is danger of some farmers being
misled by the extravagant claims that are
put forth by manufacturers of different
apparatus for cooking feed for stock.
Many alluring statements are made and
plausible arguments deduced to convince
the possible purchaser that a great saw
ing in feed and larger gains may be Sc
cured for cooking food for hogs and cat
tie. If cooking food is an economical
practice the farmers ought to know it.
and if the reverse Is equally true. they
ought to know it. The Oklahoma expert
ment station has not conducted any ex-
periments IN cooking feed for stock This
has not been necessary as records of ex-
periments made elsewhere are available
and the results are as true for Oklahoma
as anywhere else. These experiments
have been summed UP by Professor
Henry Of Wisconsin. in his book on
Feeds and. Feeding" from which what
follows is taken. Numerous experiments
in feeding cooked and uncooked feed to
pigs were made in Kansas, Iowa, Ottawa,
Ohio and Wisconsin. Professor Henry
summarizes these trials as follows: In
Guiding all the trials then. so far as
known that have been favorable to cook
ing feed and emitting many for lack Of
space that are unfavorable to the oDer-
alton the average shows that 479 pounds
of unlocked food or grain were required
for 100 pounds Of grain with pigs. while
after it was cooked sos pounds were re-
CURED This shows a loss of per cent
of the feeding value Of these substances
through cooking In Maine: The re-
suits have in every case pointed to the
superior value Of unlocked meal to the
production of pork" Looking at the
whole matter OF cooking meal in the most
favorable light. the best that can be said
is that >"the advantages are very slight
and not worth the trouble Of either build
ing the FIRE cutting the wood or building
the apparatus. TO say nothing OF all these
combined, with danger and insurance
added
Oklahoma farmers would do well to i'm
prove the water supply for their stock,
study how 70 feed TO the best advantage
at least cost. and leave all forms Of feed
cookers alone