The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-11

corn fodder, ten pounds wheat bran,
six pounds hominy, and three pounds
cotton seed meal. An effort was
made to reduce the cost by a better
study of the feeding question, and
the following ration vas adopted
Twenty pounds hay, three pounds
oat straw, three pounds oats, six
pounds wheat bran, four pounds
buckwheat middlings, and two
pounds cotton seed meal. This
ration post 21I cents per day. Of
this, ten cents was raised on the
farm, and III cents purchased. The
milk yield increased to Is 14-1OO
quarts a day, making the cost per
quart 14,1O cents, a saving of nearly
one-half of a cent per quart, perday.
I'm 1888 my COWS averaged 1000
quarts per cow, and the milk cost me
2 s 10 cents per quart. Last year
the yield was 1854 quarts per cow,
and the cost per quart was only
14-1O cents, or reduction of exactly
one half"
This result was brought about by
wedding out the poor COWS and put
ting good ones in their place. To
know the good from the bad, the
milk of each COW was weighed, and
tested at regular intervals.
81 guess So" was discharged and
'I know so" put in his place.
Now, think these facts over, and
tell me candidly, is it not best to
abandon our old wasteful ways of
managing COWS, and adopt some of
these new ways? Let us always re-
member that COWS cannot yield milk
solids without suitable materials
from which so make them and that
the COWS capable of producing these
solids in profitable quantities, can.
not do on on the coarse fare that is
suitable to the lower grades of stock.
Neither can they stand the exposure
which common stock will endure
without serious discomfort and in
jury.
HE Nus AVOID WASTE.
The Experimental Farm of Ontario
reports the amount of food consumed,
bedding used and manure produced,
by a calf during the first three years
of its life. The total weight, inolud-
ing six tons and thirty-eight one
hundredths of a ton of straw used,
was 29.6 tons.
The MANURE produced was ana
lyzed, and it's value determined on
the basis used for valuing CONNER
cial fertilizers.
On this basis the value of the ma
nure produced by the calf during the
first three years was SISSY.
This shows the enormous waste 60
ing on when the farmer does not
look after the manure. The fertility
or producing power of your land is
your capital. Did you ever notice
how much less a rich soil feels a bad
III O5A Ia a pun O44Os LAO N1C1S-
STUDIES Of farming are very much
lessened by keeping the land rich.
One of the chief reasons why l have
been so persistent in advocating the
use of land plaster in the stables is
to save the waste of nitrogen. A
COW produces annually about SIP
worth of ammonia, which is a nitro
gen compound. The land plaster
absOrbs it, prevents it from evapO-
rating until it can be taken up as
plant food. Yet l know of plenty
of men who will not pay out 81 to
save $12.
WE MUST STUDY THE FEED QUESTION.
Here is a fact clearly demonstrate
ing this DR.. BabcOck found that
the use of ensilage greatly increased
the churnability of cream Itseemed
to produce the same effect that is
seen in the cream when the COWS
feed on June grass. Every farmers
wife knows how much more easily
and thoroughly the cream churns at
that time than later when the feed
becomes drier and more woody. The
same effect is produced by the feed.
ing of roots.
DR.. Sturtevant at the Geneva Sta
ton, found that milk from early
mown hay, corr meal, and bran,
yielded up 81 per cent. of it's fat,
while that from late cut hay and
gluten meal yielded up only Ga per
cent. Here was a loss of 20 per cent.
because of the kind and condition of
the food.