Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-10-25
THE sUREsT AND MOST PROFIT
IN SEMLARID REGIONS.
RICHEST STOCK FOOD KNOWN
Three to Four Crops Per Year, With
One to Two Tons Per Acre to Cut
ting-Worth So to SIP Per Ton
Greatest of All Crops as
Drought Resister.
BY A. c. samuels, Editor Profitable
Farming.


of the world have been built upon
staple lines of merchandise, SO musI
successful farming be based upon STA
pie and sure crops.
Some special crop-in a neishbor
hood where not usually grown-m-sh-
catch a fancy or profitable markei
but gam bling in the growing OF farm
crops has proven quite as uEproitabi.
in the end as in other lines.
The twentieth century method
profitable farming is first to know
your soil and conditions, and the
grow those staple and sure crop
which viii best develop therein ar,
prove cashable, at the least expense
Market Crop Through Live Siccr-
1t is well known I@ct, too, tina
crops can be marketed n 70 othes
way at so little an expense as throus.
live stock.
In this way the big bulk of grsi:-
is condensed to its smallest possible
weight, making transportation charge
of the very minimum.
This being true, il follows sureiy
that the cheapest production of that
animal matter will prove most profit
able.
Let US reduce this to still simpler
form-production of meat at the least
possible cost is the most economical
way of delivering the farm crop to
market.
Grow Certain Crops
In many places farmers are apt to
follow custom or old-time crop rota-
ton, or the continuous growing of
certain crops, which, while not impos-
rible to grow, with some success,
could be eliminated, nearly or alto
gether, with enormous additional
profit and of much greater GER
tainty.
We have gone grain mad
We think of grain-morning, noon
and night. To us feeding and grain
have become synonymous. In our
vision we can see fat stock and bags
of gold out of pile of corn alone.
More farmers have lost money in
their feeding than have ever made a
cent from it Not because there is
no money in feeding there is plenty
of money in feeding. But there is no
profit in grain feeding-at least as
usually practiced.
Conservation of our soil is more
needed than conservation Of the prod
ucts of our soil
Conservation of the soil rests large
ly upon returning to it certain ele-
ments, and this through feeding.
Conservation in feeding requires the
adaptability and the full use of all
animal building matter contained in
the feed stuff.
1t is absolutely impossible to do this
with straight grain feeding or to keep
the soil up by such a method.
We must have this grain ration bal
anced with protein to which must
also be included enough roughage to
offset the condensation of the feed
stuff
AIfaIfa-The Feeders Bank.
This brings US at once to a very
prime necessary factor-forage and
especially of that class of forage
known as legumes-the principal one
in this class being alfalfa.
This is especially true of semi-arid
sections such as western Kansas and
eastern Colorado.
Here no doubt much effort has been
wasted, and much loss sustained on
| grain crops which could have much
| better been devoted to more forage
| We fully believe that most of the Ia
Dor and cost of trying to grow corn in
| such sections would have been many
/
growing forage crops and especially
more alfalfa
Corn an Uncertain Crop.
Growing corn is a prime necessity in
some sections, and in all sections upon
every farm some corn should be grown
| II possible. In the semi-arid sections,
however, 1t is at best a very hazard
j Gus crop.
Often after great labor has been
given in the planting and growing, q
hot wind or drought wipes 1t out and
leaves us nothing for our effort and
expense.
Alfalfa Never Fails.
Forage crops rarely fail us, and al
falfa especially usually gives us al
least two excellent and extremely
| profitable cuttings. No other plant
has ever proven 30 universally profit
able in the semi-arfd sections OF west
ern Kansas and eastern Colorado az
alfalfa, and as 1t Is far the richest in
feeding value of all forage crops, and
the surest of all crops which can be
grown in such sections, a much great
err acreage should be grown there.
Feeders" can be .nost economical
ly raised or purchased in such sec
lions and with good alfalfa hay, lit
} tie grain is necessary to fit them fol