Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-20

81 : CiiOIuS VI pOyS - VOICES ulIecleu' ny
Miss Alice Jones, superintendent OF
music of the public schools of Man
chester.
The Value of Balanced Ration
and How to Use 1t on Our Farms
was first subject under discussion.
Bert Russell, F. e. Richardson and
David Chrystal were to appear on the
program, but could not be present.
The arguments set forth by T. H.
Carrothers were forceful and spoken
OF as worthy of attention and thought
full consideration as those which
might be heard from lecture class
room at any agricultural college. r..
I. Durey read paper which read
as follows:
All kinds of stock do better on a
variety of feed. Which proves that
it pays to feed a balanced ration. And
It certainly pays to raise it, for in do
ing SO you not only have most val
liable feed, but are improving the
land also. A ton of clover hay after
1T has been fed to stock, is still worth
$500 for fertilizing.
H Unless we seed some land to clover
every year we are liable to be short
i=on a balanced ration some winters.
I don't know very much about pro-
tein, and carbonhidrates, but do
know that when have plenty of good
sound corn, and clover cut at the
right time and put up right, it is very
easy to winter all kinds of stock, and
keep them growing all the time.
s But l lay great stress OIL feeding
a great variety. l aim to feed some
straw and corn fodder every day, and
II there is wild hay they will eat
little of that and do all the better for
having it.
Plenty Of good pasture is a
balanced ration of itself for all kinds
of stock, and right there is where
we must raise our hogs to get prof
II out OF them. If they are allowed
to run in pasture all summer with
clover growing above their backs
( they are not likely to have the chol-
EZRA, with plenty of salt and ashes
and pure water to run to every day.
1t matters not how well we balance
I the ration for our stock, if we do not
feed 1t in way that is palatable to
I them. Land in this community will
grow feeds for all kinds of animals
raised here if harvested properly and
cured right, and there is no necessi-
I ty Of buying patent stock foods to
give the animals better appetites, any
more than the farmer himself required
/ patent medicine.
Hay that smells musty or is not
I sweet and fragrant, and corn fodder
that is not palatabie. might require
some stimulant with 1t. Just SO with
a man being fed on mouldy bread and
Eoleomargarine would require patent
medicine to stimulate his appetite
ard regulate his digestive apparatus.
After Manchester has had few short
i Courses and the ladies have become
proficient in Domestic Science the
patent medicine man will have hard
shedding in this community.
Experts tell us it pays to sell oats
and buy mill feed. But would rather
waste little feed than haul it over
the road, and handle 1t SO many
times. One hundred shoats will clean
up two bushels of dry oats every
other day with great relish and profit
whether on pasture or on full feed
Of corn. But they did not get many
oats the past year. We are often
told that 1t does no pay to raise
L oats, but it is hard to get along with
out few hundred bushels Of oats
and good straw pile.
1t does not matter SO much what
grain is fed to farm horses If they
have clover hay it will balance the
ration The Ohio station has made
hn experiment with corn and oats
FED horses for 4s weeks, and by feed
Ing clover and timothy, the corn fed
&|hurses endured hard work and hot
]weather full as well as the oats fed
Hhorses.
~ Some farmers would not feed clover
to horses II they have it. have
He'd a great deal of 1t, and the only
Itime it has ever hurt them is when
did not have it to feed.
Millet is splendid feed for cattle
Aand some of the wet corners that
grow weeds could be made to pay
well II properly sown to millet. 1t
also makes excellent bedding for hogs
kthey are SO fond of the seed, and the
&traw being coarse, it lasts longer.
"A variety of rough feed is good but
Yithout clover it will be necessary to
supplement something containing
karge amount of protein, such as oil
meal. cotton seed meal or alfalfa,
(which the farmer would have to buy.
And these feeds are very expensive
las compared with clover, which we
can raise on our own farms in abund-
lance.
| Having never fed ensilage ] only
know what have read and the ex-
eperience Of others. At the Meat pro-
kucers association in nes Moines, a
nan by the name of Jones from Ohio.
Naked on silos and ensilage for beef
little. He fattens from 800 to 1000
Ehead every year making silage larg
Hpart OF their ration. always thought
Before heard him talk that ensilage
|was principally dairy feed. One
reason why 1t is good dairy feed
rs because it is SO near like good
Hrrnsaa rastnra The man living in