The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-06-30
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How sucossaful Farmers Opsrats THIS,
81 IosIsr 4 tlasnt 81 the Farm rev
81 Hines s. i to- q Care q Eve stock
81 mn Poultry. s C
Rations Tor Dairy Cows

and Poultry.
4 Rations Tor Dairy Cows. &.
I. Prot. oh Otis Of the Kansas Ag-
a lltural College; In an address to
the Kansas State Board Of Agriculture,
lsai s.sz Il: sS A.
! I During the past two years the Kan
II sas experiment station has been test
I Ing several CONT inations Of feeds, and
we have found that on pasture or with
Il soiling crops we can produce a pound
OF butter fat at from 8 to 8 cents per
4 pound. On alfalfa and Kafr-corn meal
we produced butter fat at 11.9 per
pound with Kafr-corn meal one
4 third, bran one-third and ground oats
one-third, with what Kafir-corn slower
/ the cows would eat, we produced but
ter tat at 1913 cents per pound; with
kafr-corn meal one half and soy bean
meal one-half, with all the Kafir-corn
slower the cows desired, we produced
butter fat for 1913 cents per pound.
When we were obliged to buy high
i priced concentrates, such as oil-meal,
or cottonseed meal, the cost of pro-
duclng a pound Of fat increased to
10, #16 and II cents per pound. In
/ figuring the above costs the . feeds
grown on the farm were charged at the
price the farmer could realize for them
on the local market. It will be noticed
1 that where the above rations were pro-
duced exclusively on the farm, butter
fatsWas not only produced much cheap
er, but the farmer would realize two
profits on his feeds, first on growing
them, and second on feeding them to
4 his cows. In the ration of alfalfa and
kaf1r-corn meal we have two drought
resisting plants that are excellent
ylelders. On good soil alfalfa will
produce from four to six and even
seven tons of hay per acre. On the
average, alfalfa contains 10.6 per cent
digestible protein, but we have found
by digestion experiments at the Kan
sas State Agricultural College that
good alfalfa hay contains Is per cent
digestible protein, or 20 per cent more
than bran. We have also found, after
eleven, years of experimenting, that
Kafir corn on upland has averaged us
forty-six bushels per acre per annum,
while corn under the same conditions
averaged thirty-four and one-half
bushels per acre. Our highest yield
OF katir corn in any one year was
ninety-eight bushels per acre. while
the highest yield Of corn was seventy
four bushels per acre. In drier. sec
tions of the country the difference be-
tween the two crops would be still
greater. While a bushel of Kafir corn
SIS not quite equal to "a bushel Of corn
for feeding purposes, AN acre. OF Kafir.
corn is, worth more than acre of corn
fs8s For those unable to grow alfalfa
red clover is undoubtedly the next
best roughness, and contains about
two-thirds as much digestible protein
as alfalfa. This can be supplemental
by soy-beans, which contain more di-
gestible protein than oil-meal itself.
During the past season the Kansas
experiment station has grown sixty.
! acres Of these beans, which yielded
fifteen and one-half bushels per acre,
and cost us for planting, cultivating,
harvesting and threshing SIS cents per
bushel. This means that the equiva-
lent of 937 pounds of oil-meal can be
grown per acre at the rate of $18.19
per ton. Oil-meal is now selling in
Manhattan at $28 per ton. Here is a
saving of nearly SO per ton to the
farmer who raises his own concern
trated feed. In addition to this soy
! oil-meal In these days of fierce COM
petition we need to have it our con-,
fstant aim to grow all the feeds we need
| right here on the farm. It can. be
done; it is only question as to
whether we will arrange our farm and
| plan our work to bring about the de-
sired results. z55I ..
| 5s Poultry Notes. ~ = n
The food that fowls get has some:
thing to do with the fertility of the
eggs. 81 It is entirely reasonable to sup
pose that a well -balanced ration will
put the bird in better condition for the
I.production Of fertile eggs than any
Isother. Food that contains too much.
of the carboh by drates is very likely to
have an influence against the fertility
Eof the eggs. ss E. N. n. ~. T. @
I The egg producing capacity Of q flock
can be built up only by years Of con-.
slant attention. It is true that by high.
feeding the egg producing power OF
fowls is increased, and it might be
thought that pullets from eggs so pro-
! duced would have the ability to lay
more eggs than the ordinary hen. Yet
poultry raisers tell us that such is not
the fact; that this forcing seems to
react on the subsequent generation
We: do not doubt that this is true. It
takes many generations to establish IN
improved habit OF any kind.
The shape of the hens eggs is doubt
less due to generations Of unconscious
lselection. Most Of our eggs have a,
leertain p1umpness, and this is the kind
itkat iS usually selected for setting