The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-08-30
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Neighbors said, feed the oats you
raised them and do not have them to
buy"
insisted that because / raised them
did not lessen their market value, nor
did it increase their feeding value, they
remained oats all the same, worth 35c
per bushel or S22.S7 per ton, and con
tain 236 lbs. OF protein
sold these oats because their feeding
value, ton for ton, is no more than equal
to ton of shipstuf, while this S22.S7
buys $500 lbs of bran containing $50 he.
of protein. So the case stands as $12
against 2287.
1t is the men who never make a study
of the market value and the feeding val
ne with an eye to economy that will
continue to make these blunders, they
have no dollar to throw away for an az
riCultural journal. They are so busy
carrying out poor ideas, and as they IL
variably admit, following Improbable
pursuits, that they have no time to eve
read of better methods If these men can
in no way be made to see the. error Of
their ways then they will have to con-
tinue to cuss the times and wait for
something better to turn up.
Passing from this subject to wasGeful
stock feeding, want to briefly drop a
hint or two on commercial fertilizers, or
as prefer to say, our blessing IN dis
guise.
Conservative estimates of the amount
of this goods sold in Breckenridge coun-
ty in 1898 is $15O,OOO. This year it will
be still more, but trust that with the
dswnings Of our Goth century the annual
expenditure for commercial fertilizers
in Breckenridge county will slightly de-
crease as a result of better understand
ing.
Now, do not leave this meeting and
say that l advised a discontinuance Of
commercial fertilizers, not by any means.
! am full believer in fertilizers on all
crops, yes and on all lands, even the
river bottom land needs it; Needs what
Needs what it is deficient in Of course
Perhaps it is phosphoriC acid that Is
deficient, perhaps it is potash, less likely
it is nitrogen that is deficient in your
bottom lands, but it is deficient in some
thing my brother, and now 1t is for you
to find out what that something is, and
then after you have found out what d b
do not stop for now is your opportunity
TO save some money and beg you to
embrace it.
But just as you reach this point in
your reasoning the fertilizer shark steps
up and too often gets in his work.
You console yourself by saying, "Well
am not posted on fertilizers and if this
causes me to make good crop of wheat
will be satisfied"
want to say right here that this is an
audience of intelligent men, and in as
much as you are the only one that is TO
lose if this fertilizer proves worthless,
that you should and can be better posted
on fertilizers and especially the kind that
pays best on your land than any agent
or manufacturer can ever be.
would have you first determine what
your land needs, and then how can it be
most economically supplied. Write TO
the director of the experiment station
M. A, Scoyall, at Lexington, and he will
start you off right. l cannot stop here
to enter into details Be better posted
in your business than TO be guilty of
buying costly nitrogen when your land
needs cheap potash, If you want phos-
phoric acid, the rock phosphates can be
had cheaply, but If you want the costly
and all important nitrogen, thank God,
you can grow it, II YOU will listen to my
good friend, Ed Oglesby who will talk TO
you on soil building.
should like TO have said something
to you concerning the live stock interests
of our county, but time forbids it here,
suffice it for me TO say that our county is
admirably adapted to stock OF all kinds
and every farm that know OF can easily
double its stock carrying capacity within
the next five years, If the owner viii
only learn how to do it. So let every
farmer that is in this community be not
only planter, but a stockman a. we'll
conserving wisely and thoroughly the
possibilities Of all the farm produces.
provide warm stables for your stock
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