The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
CONDUCTED sr rRos. .. F. nuesAm.

desire an acre of a definite length and | uncertain width, divide 43,560 by the length. An acre in the form of . square Is nearly 70 by 70 yards. (2) There Is no correct method oi l estimating the yield of corn before the corn has been gathered. The yield | can be approximated by ascertainine | the number of ears on an acre, and dividing by the number of ears of av. craze size required to make a bushel | This is usually between 12O and 160 | but for early varieties of corn and ir bad seasons a greater number is re. quired. On the other hand, large | cared varieties growing on rich land l may make a bushel from less than 10C selected ears.
 (3) White Snow Flake seems to be the most popular for roasting ears o1 | the early varieties of white corn. ] | have found Champion White Pear good for the same purpose. Hickory King Is also good, but later than either of the above.
 J. F. D. Study Variety in Feeding. Every animal relishes variety of feeds. No one can live comfortably without, a change of diet. The stock man is prone to drop back feeding one or two things continuously. We knew | a good lady who fed wheat bran to her | COW in summer while Bermuda grass l was good. In the fall grass failed and she increased the bran to make up for it and complained at her COW for shrinking in milk. The COW refused to give abundantly when fed wheat bran l enriched with abundant water. We | tend to drop back on one or two feeds because 1t Is the easiest thing for us.
 The feeder of beef steers sticks to meal and hulls alone.
 The work mule on the farm gets corn and corn fodder month after | month until Hampers" or stagRers cause him to fall out. *f"e 4't Th T | Hogs eat corn corn, corn, until con stitution fails and they are the prey to every passing disease.
 Sheep eat weeds. In many cases nothing but weeds. There is nothing for them but this rich CD diet upon some ranges.
 Poultry can often find nothing but stale fecal mater and purifying car casses of their own kind to relieve a daily ration of corn. When these fowls begin to die don't send them to mar ket.
 The public is interested in the far mers' system of, stock feeding In some states the miIkman's barns and feed troughs, his pails and his cows are in spected every week. Public safety de- mand 1t. But the farmers interest is much more direct. Good feeding means healthy animals. Variety means sani- tary feeding. Sane feeding calls for study of marketing and markets. The market question throws the farmer in- to close business contact with busi- ness men and commercial problems. He is the gainer. Commerce is improved because he has touched 1t.
 The most carefully conducted experi- ments show that a dog will die of starvation when fed freely upon pure 1 fat meat, and die just as soon as if he had not been fed at all.
 Beef steers cease to thrive and gain at the end of ninety days usually when l fed cotton seed meal and huIls alone in large quantities. Ask the. leading 1 feeders of the Southwest what ratfons they used in finishing certain car | loads of prize winning steers and they mention half dozen things that were | fed. Cotton seed meal is the most con centrated, the richest, the most val uable feed, pound for pound upon our markets. Its very concentration may result in it's waste. It's cheapness has caused us to abuse it for ! decades.
 
 ishing than many think. They are su- pericr to poor prairie hay and better | than shredded, corn fodder, 1t Is evil dent that we should add something to cotton seed meal in using this be- | cause 1t Is so rich and concentrated Upon our our skill in doing it hangs the prosperity of the stock feeders of all kinds in the years. to come. n' To hogs we may safely feed cotton I nA Aa1 1.,,.s .s~... IA. or swill and feed 1t in this diluted and fermented form to hogs, pigs and brood sows. With this meal We must com bine corn, rice polish, Kaffir corn, or other starchy matter for best returns. Hogs demand some pasture or filling feed at all times. but if fed slops they do well for long period without a pasture in which to range. Vary the ration by supplying some salt, char coal and ashes at all times. These are as necessary as any feed stuff.
 Beef steers demand that corn in some form or that rice polish or Kaffir corn be fed with cotton seed meal The most economic system of fattenIng is | here indicated, The old rule of thumb method in feeding cotton seed meal must be cast aside. The most accu- rate, expensive and trustworthy ex- periments show 1t. All cotton seed | meal TOT the grain ration must go. The foreign feeders have come to this years ago. Our best results come from the use of ? or pounds of starchy grain fed daily with or pounds of cotton seed meal. As the price of this meal advance in comparison with farm feeds we must decrease the cotton seed meal correspordingly, though always | using this ts the asic food in our Southern rations. High finish rapid 1 fattenmadimum price per pound are to | be found just here. They dictate the profits.--The Stockman. --s' What Is the Loss in Exposed Manure : Mt. Olive, Tenn; l can get about fif- teen tons of manure within q mile of me that has been in heap exposed to rain and water for about two and one | half years, just for the hauling. Now, is said manure any account or worth the time of hauling and spreading? P. l.. Jeffery.
 To correctly and satisfactorily an- swer the above question we must first | ascertain what the component parts of an average ton of stable manure are. The annexed table gives the com position of one ton of average fresh manure:
 Water .,........1.42 420 pounds | Nitrogen ...... 9 pounds
 Phosphoric acid, AZ pounds Ptash .......... 10.4 pounds