The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-27

that 1t will pay you we'll to obtain some of this at price not exceeding half the usual price, calculating the amount in the heap by the amount in the car and not by the weight of the damp material
 Do Not Sow Oats with Alfalfa. From Autauga county comes the in quiry as to the advisability of sowing oats with alfalfa.
 have sent you a bulletin on alfalfa. ! would strongly advise you against sowing alfalfa with oats. It should be sown alone, on the best land pos sihle and given every possible chance to succeed, for as a young plant 1t Is quite delicate. Most important of all on your soil will doubtless be the ip- oculation of the seed as desccribed in tho bulletin which send. On applica- ton to pr. A. F. Woods, Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. c, you free. r. D. The Le9uminous Crops as Factors in
 =. the cheap Production of Milk. Southern Planter
 We have repeatedly urged on farm CTS the importance of studying the question of the most profitable rations ~ " Aeo " SLibAh CdtllC, dllu SSQ6CIdllH the importance of feeding rations rich in protein as part of the feed. The pro duction of milk is a nervous function, depending largely not so much in the richness of the food fed as upon the in- auence exerted by that food on the ner- vous organization of the COW. Protein foods have been found much more in- 1uential in this action than the carbo- hydrates, and hence their feeding in due proportion Is most essential in se- curing a constant yield of milk. The question of the particular form of the protein food to be fed is one of most importance in calculating the cost of the milk. Bran, as Is we'll understood, by most dairy farmers. is most yalua- ble as a producer of milk. It Is rich in l protein but 1t is usually costly. and with wheat selling at over s1 per bush el Is likely to be still more costly. The legumes, like alfalfa, cow peas, soy beans and clover are all especially rich in protein. and can we'll be substituted | for bran. Cotton seed meal and old process linseed meal are also rich pro- | tein foods. but are costly when compar- ] ed with the leguminous crops. Prof, i Soule conducted series of experiments at the Tennessee Experiment Station on this question of the cheapest form of protein food for rpoduction of milk and butter aud thus summarizes the rev suits;
 | l, The cost of producing milk aud butter can be greatly reduced by re. placing part of the concentrates in the daily ration of~the COW with some roughness rich in protein. such as aI-
 falfa or COW pea hay.
 l ?. ton of alfalfa or pea hay can
 be produced at q cost of s3 to s5 per
 ton, whereas wheat bran costs $2o to
 S25. As q yield of form two to three
 tons of pea hay and from three to five
 tons of alfalfa can be obtained from an
 acre of land, 1t is easy to see the great advantage the utilization of these roushnesses in the place of wheat bran
 gives the dairyman.
 3. In substituting alfalfa hay foi
 wheat bran 1t will be hest in praotice
 to allow one and one-han pounds of al
 falfa for each pound of wheat bran, and
 # the alfalfa Is fed in a finely chopped condition the results will prove moro satisfactory
 1. When alfalfa is fed under the most
 favorable conditions. a gallon of mill
 was obtained for 5.7 cents and a pound
 of butter for 1e.4 cents. When pea has
 was fed the lowest cost of a gallon oi
 milk was 5.2 cents and a pound of but
 ter was s,t cents. In localities where
 pea hay grows well 1t can be utilized
 to replace wheat bran, and in sections
 where alfalfa can be grown it can bt
 substituted for pea hay with satisfac, tion.
 5. These results covering two years test with different sets of cows furnish proof that certain forms of roughness
 rich in disestible protein can be subSti,
 tuted with satisfaction for the more ex pensive concentrates, and should lenC great encouragement to dairy farmers
 $. These tests indicate that with al
 falfa hay at $1o a ton and wheat brar
 at $3e. the saving effected by substitut
 ing alfalfa for wheat bran would b'
 $2.S0 for every one hundred pounds oi butter and 1e.S cents for every one hun. dFed pounds of milk The farmer could
 thus afford to sell his milk for ia.t cents a hundred less than he now re ceives and his butter for about 22, al compared with 25 cents a pound.
 The Problem of Breeding Dairy Cattle
 The breeding of dairy cattle is a com, paratively easy matter. Given the righ idea the selection of breeding stres il a question of finding the animal that conforms to your ideal If the form fills eye. if the touch of the hand confirm: | the judgment of the eye, If the pedi gree assures risht ancestry, your prob lem is solved, says the Breeders Ga zstte, you may accept the sire with req. sonabls hope that his progeny will re. | semble him and advance the work VOL have in hand
 l The problem of the breeder of dairy cattle is infinitely more dinicult than that. The breeder has his ideal of whai | should constitute form and color. H.
 may easily enough find that--it ht rests there he Is lost. The difficulty O, finding dairy sire that will irnpres; heavy milking and fat producing qual tiles upon his daughters is almost tho | despair of the daiFyman of today Where have dairymen gone wrong Have they relied too much upon tht
 markings; too much upon pedigree ant | given too little attention to perform apee Of dams and grapdams2
 The breeder lof dairy cattle does vel to consider fArm, though 1t may b' \ So,sl1faA ff fha last truth has been ais