Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-06

son if placed in a silo will yield ten
tons Of the finest meat and milk pro-
ducing fodder known on earth. Thirty
Lcunds a day with ten pounds Of al
falfa hay is sufficient to fatten a
fifteen month old steer To the pink
of condition in year Each acre.
then, and an acre Of alfalfa. would
suffice to feed two steers for the
year. What a tremendous feeding
power At low cost is here disclosed
and yet il is annually wasted and not
q country district school or school
teacher is telling the farmer and his
children any better. Think of the
thousands upon thousands of poor
COWS that are kept by the farmers
of the dairy states because they do
not know better Think Of the wasted
labor to raise the feed to support
those cows. the wasted time and ef-
feet 10 milk and care for them when
by exhaustive research it can be
shown that not half Of those cows
are producing enough To pay for their
keeping. You ask: Don't the farm
crs know better than to keep such
cows: Can you believe they would
continue 10 breed and keep such
COWS if they did know better? Ev-
ertwhere is seen the appalling waste
of our farming-in fertility, in poor
live stock. in lack of breeding knowl-
edge, in lack of sanitary understand
ing. in a lack OF intelligent methods
~ farm management. The discon-
tent Of the farmer IS great. Let us
Dee thankful for that. for we are told
that discomfort is the vice Of noble
minds Bat, likewise. everywhere is
he misiCd by contending politicians
To believe that his salvation lies in
politics. in the tariff up, or the tariff
down. i'm fighting the corporations
and the trusts. in order that certain
leaders may have place and power
And all the time this mighty demon
Of waste is getting in his work. When
will the farmer see that he must
educate himself and his children back
IN the country district school 10
know good from evil. to understand
the conservation Of the soil and the
great economic laws that underlie his
very existence
He cannot escape the demand of
the millions who wait upon his hand
for bread and meat. He is response
he to his own good citizenship not
20 waste the productive energies of
the state He owes it to himself and
the hoped for profit of the labor of
his hands that he make of this ques-
ton ~ the conservation Of the farm
the foremost question of the age as
it truly is.
Dairy farming. if rightly under
stood and conducted, has the power
to knit up this raveled sleeve" to
rcindow all of these wasted farms
with their original fertility and pro-
ductiveness. For. understand, the
true dairy farmer must be a wise
as well as animal life No man in
the domain of agriculture is confront
ed with greater necessity of know
ing good from evil" at every turn
and in more ways. than is the dairy
farmer. Ignorance is at work here to
destroy fertility and profit as well as
in all other branches of agriculture
But there are certain natural advan-
tages that govern here more than in
other lines of farming.
% The dairyman must so handle
his farm as to support sufficient ami
NAL life to give him a living profit
for his time and labor.
CD That animal life is a constant
contributor to the fertility of the soil
through the abundant manure that is
made.
60 As a rule the dairy farmer is
a buyer as well as grower of feed.
particularly of heterogeneous feeds. This
gives added fertilizing value to the
manure
~ He builds silos and SO con
sumes the cOarser roughage of the
farm, enabling him thereby to carry
much larger stock of cattle. hogs
ard sheep than he otherwise could.