The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-27

industry Is the main industry of the farm
 and how farms are built up and kept
 up to a high state of cultivation and fer tility by keeping dairy cows and feeding
 and putting back everything produced on
 the farm. This is the foundation of pros- porous farming.
 Education.
 When a farmer starts out to grow truck
 and fruit for market or to conduct
 dairy he then has to begin to read and
 think, as well as act and act quickly It
 does not take much brains to grow cot
 ton under the old system but when a man starts into the dairy business he has to
 read up and keep posted. There are many
 things that he must know. He must
 know how to select his cows and keep them bred up so as to obtain the best
 results. Then there is the most impor-
 tant question af all, the feeding. Ths
 dairyman must study feeds and feeding
 results, for on this depends the whole
 profit of the business And here again comes in another great advantage of
 winter dairying in the south. Where the
 cows have plenty of green pasture it Is an
 easy matter to keep them in a fine physi-
 cal condition so that they will eat the dry feeds that have to be used to better ad- vantage.
 Again, different cows will require dif- ferent feeding. and the requirements of
 each COW must be well considered, as one COW would prove profitable with one feed.
 while another COW would have to have
 something entirely different. Another great advantage which the south has over other sections is that she can grow such
 variety, of crops suitable for feeds for ] the dairy COW, and with these cheaper , feeds and. an abundant supply of winter pasture. the cost of feeding the dairy i cows can be reduced to a minimum. The rft1a M ne faA fu 70 1 the most important parts of the dairy mans education. Regularity in feeding is | also very important, as well as a knowl- | edge of how and when to change feeds to | meet the requirements of each COW. How l to prepare balanced ration Is another | matter that must be carefully studied and practiced. The southern farmer can grow | so many crops that 1t will always be
 an easy matter to have large line on | hand from which to make up this ration SlIos and SIIage.
 When the farmers of the south get to | dairying, as they will sooner or later, the | question of silos and silage will have
 to be considered. There are so many crops | which can be used for silage and these can be saved during wet seasons in we'll | built silos. when otherwise they would | be lost or so damaged by rain as to be- | come practically worthless as feed for the dairy COW. Besides this. in the south en- | silage corn can be grown in great abund- | ance at very small cost, so that the l matter of feeds is one that can be man | aged nearly entirely on the farm, and | very little feed would have to be bought. | Succulent feed is often needed and helps | to tone up and keep the cows in fine, | healthy condition. Here, again, comes in another natural advantage of the south, | for she can grow a large line of root | crops all of which are highly valuable
 
 | form a balanced ration. Among these ] root crops which can be grown at a | profit we might mention beets (sugar | beets are the best), carrots turnips and | ruta bagas, all of which can be grown
 at profit. kept and fed to great advan- | tage.
 | In the north these root crops. If used at | all, have to be harvested and hurried into | storage. There are but few days during | winter when they can be fed to advan- | tage, but in the south they can be fed | every day in the winter that they are | needed, and besides they have longer season in which to grow and mature, and 1 the farmer does not have to rush himself 1 to get his root crops harvested ahead l of frost.
 { Grains, Grasses and Clovers. ] As to grains, grasses and clovers suita- | be for winter pasture for dairy cows as ! well as all other stock. l have before l gone over this matter for our readers | However I will again mention a few things which may be grown over great
 range of country, all of which are espec- ! ially well adapted for the hill country of Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkan- sas, North Alabama and North Missis-
 sippi Winter rye. winter barley. winter
 oats. winter vetch, dwarf Essex rape.
 orchard grass. English blue grass, crim- son clover, red clover and on many soils, alfalfa may be grown to great profit. I will also nane few grains which can