The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-08-07
USE OF FooD-sTUFFs PRODUCED ON FARM.


andman he should not only know all that he can
about that branch OF science but he should be
familiar with the underlying principles of crop
growing, so that he can produce on his own land
almost all the necessary food for his animals.
In primitive dairying cows were not supposed
to yield profit during the winter when they
were fed ON such roughage and grain as would
not command very high price" on the market
Today the cows environment is changed. She
is a high pressure milking machine the year
! round. She is fed succulent food all the time,
| where formerly about all the gucculent food she
obtained was the grass rroused in the meadow
during the summer months. To form a. balanced
ration one cannot feed exclusively an animal on
| succulent feed as silage for roughage. 9hey must
be fed some concentrated food-stuf The question
is then is it profitable to sell the cereals off
the farm and buy patentfeeds or retain the
original products?
TO answer this question fully and satisfactorily
one must consider what tood.stuffs are grown at
home and their value compared with the value
of patent feeds. The home grown feeds are more
| bulky and can perform double function, that OF
concentrates and also of roughage. certain
amount of roughage has to be given an animal to
act as filler and this can nowhere be so well
! supplied as on the farm. Of course in consider
| ing the supply oil homegrown food stuff one has
| to allow for damage by storms before the crops
are harvested and also must be sure that they are
well cured or else d destructive fermentation will
destroy much of their food value.
| The principal food stuffs produced on the farm
in this state are corn, wheat, OATS barley and rye
as grain. Then among tine grasses and clovers
are to be found timothy, red, crimson and alsike
clovers, some alfalfa. COW peas and vetch. With
this variety Of foodstuffs to work upon, fail to
see why man wants to sell the grains that he
knows are good and wholesome to buy patent
feeds whose composition is often not definitely
known. But that is the way dozens of farmers are
doing year after year and complaining that farm
ing does not pay. Do you suppose for one
moment that almost any business would prosper
under such management? IT'S true that the
patent feeds do increase the flow OF milk of cows
/ but do you not think our home grown products
would produce the same results if they were given
the same trial?
/ Some feeders seem to think chat these patent
feeds are made of some material that is very rare
and consequently should command high price
| losing sight of the tact that these patent feeds
that one buys in the winter are simply the grains
4 grown on the farm the previous summer that
/ nave UScu pun turOuSu sOIie mdltiug process
which has given it different color and
pleasant odor. These grains have undergone
fermentation, which breaks down certain car
bohydrates and removes them in the form of
alcohol. This lessons their value foodstuff but
still they sell for as much and often more than
the farmer sold them for.
Now if the feeder can so manipulate these food.
stuffs that are grown on the farm as to render
them palatable, nutritious and readily soluble, 1
am sure the patent food manufacturer will soon
he crying for quarter for the feeder will see that
the patent foods, while not so valuable as the
natural foods, are more expensive and often not
| easy to obtain.
Summing up the advantages and disadvantages
of both the natural and patent food-stufs, am
sure the natural foods are less expensive. equally
or more nutritious and more easily obtained. Be-
sides the waste material can go back on the farm
as manure to keep and raise the fertility of the
soil. And am confident that when the Ameri,
can farmer sees and realizes the advantage of the
natural food stufs that are grown on the farm, he
will rely wholly on these and put into his own
pocket the dollars that the patent food manu-
facturer formerly boarded.
The members when called upon
to express their opinions regarding
the views of essayist said they
conceded with theirs, with the
understanding that bran, cotton
seed meal, and one or two other
residue grain products did not come
under the head of ''patent" feeds.
| Mr.. Maxwell wanted the essayist
to go further and tell how to pre-
pare feeds but was told it would
require another paper on that sub.
Iject alone.
| Dinner being announced the fol-
lowing committee of inspection of
premises was appointed and adj
Ijournment taken: Messrs. Cherry,
Grove and Brown.
| After enjoying fine repast, for
which the hosts sisters are noted,
an inspection of premises followed.
On reassembling, the committee
reported fine lot of stock, includ.
ing two colts, two and three months
DID,, a colt ten days old, all by a
German coach horse, two, yearling
colts, seven horses, one hull, 80
cows, including heifers and calves,
one SOW with nine pigs and another
with ten pigs besides a lot of
shoats. The barn was so full that
the committee could not get in, but
the host told them it contained
135 loads of hay, 81 loads of wheat
and 800 bushels of oats which had
yielded 40 bushels to the acre.
Quite large addition had been
! recently built to the barn, and the
silo which was blown down few
weeks ago had not yet been rebuilt
! but would be in time to fill. An.
other thing noted was promising
IoD..lc a..oLn.d !.