Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-13

IL amount OL OH lllettl W liu
grain ration.
The following is submitted as the
ration used by a company of London,
extensively engaged IN dray work
Each horse gets per day. corn thirteen
pounds, oats three pounds, peas one
pound beans one pound, hay seven
pounds, cut straw three pounds, or q
total of tWenty-eight pounds. What
we desire to call special attention to
in this direction in the variety of food
that is thus fed. In feeding horses
this question of variety is in many IN
stances entirely overlooked.
1t was stated in an exchange some
years ago that one dairyman on a GER
tain farm in Ontario received in sew
en- months an average of 6,007 pounds
of milk from each of the fourteen cows
in his herd. Another dairynan whose
farm was in the same neighborhood
got an average of 2,O32 pounds during
the same period for each COW. The
season was "a very dry one and the
difference was largely brought about
by one man growing soling food while
the other depended entirely on past
ures.
There can be no doubt but that beef
could be more cheaply made than it
is at present, If more attention was
given to the growing grass. Pas
lures we'll established and properly
managed cost but little to. maintain
them in good form. AS managed 1t
soto al
which has the effect of reducing very
much the yield. 1t also causes the
grass, in many instances, to fail in
portions of the field followed by an
Increase of weed growth. There Is
no doubt but that the season for pas
turing could be very considerably pro-
longed and the feeding season cor
respondingly reduced by giving IN
creased attention to the production
of grass.
At the Iowa State Dairy convention,
Mr.. A. w. Trow, of Minnesota, sue
cessful dairy1nan of statewide repu-'
tation, gave the following as a bit of
his experience with the silo: The sflo
is going to solve the problem OF get
ting a living from forty to sixty acres
and that is the question that we are
going to be up against in this country
in the near future. A whole lot of fell
lows have 100 to 800 acres of land be-
cause they could not help it. They got
1t for one, five or ten dollars an acre.
But how is the next generation going
to farm? Under the present system
of feeding corn fodder, raising timothy
hay and keeping poor cows can these
Younger fellows buy this land and pay
$50 $50 or $40 an acre for it? 1t is
possible for man to get good In
come from sixty acres of land by the
use of the silo and feeding good cows.
In the past few months five spans
OF draft horses have been sold in chi
cago at $1,000 per span. Not pedl-
greed stock for breeding purposes,
mind YOU but just common drafts SUCH
as any farmer might raise, but few DO.
A farmer writes advising farmers
to SOW; speltz for feed. In the COM
munication, he says: If they would be
as successful as have been in the last
two poor seasons they would have
plenty good feed, as mammoth speltz
Yields forty to fifty bushels per acre
and Is the best feed ever had. 1 con-
slider bushel OF speltz will feed as far
as two bushels of oats and as far as
one bushel Of rye and as the yield is
so much larger, 1t pays The speltz
grows we'll sown any time in April
or Nav. have sown it early and late
and it grows in the same time as bar