The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-23
WITH THE FARMERS
By Prof. w. F. MASSEY


excess. and must have a good supply
OF carbonaceous roughage, such as corn
slower. to balance 1t and some corn
meal too. You can probably feed a
dairy COW two and half pounds daily
of cottonsced meal. with good roughage
ana some cornmeal, and plenty of pea
vine hay. Corn siIage is. of course,
better than the dried slower. and every
dairyman should have silo. for the
Stage makes succulent food in win
ter to take the place of the summer
grass In keeping up the milk now
some In the South thought that they
could maintain dairy herd with cot
tonseed meal and cottonseed hulls as
the sole roughage. but such feeding
VIII soon end in the death of the COWS
from uraemic poisoning. Cottonseed
meal is very useful feed when fed in
moderation with good roughage. but
cottonseed hulls are poor stuff for
feed. They show some food value on
ANALYSIS. but they tax the digestive
faculties to such an extent that they
are worth little really. and had better
he used to absorb the manure in the
cutters and used for bedding. They
are very good for these purposes. and
good also as cover of the enslage in
n silo.
Has the concrete silo any advantage
over the wooden one. except in lasting
longer? No. 1t has disadvantages
that overbalance it's lasting quality /
have used concrete silos, and do not
want any more. found that the con-
slant condensation of moisture on tho
walls damaged the ensilage all around
the sides. and in few years the loss
in this way would build a stave silo.
Send to the Secretary of Agriculture
and ask for copy of Farmers Bulle-
tin How to Build and Stave Silo" and
you will get full instructions with IL
lustrations. A stave silo kept coated
with oil and tar inside and covered out
side with cement wash will last n long
time, and will keep the ensilage better
than concrete one
Didn't Want to BE Pestered.
Once Mt Farmers Institute in the
cotton country / was urging the i'm
portance of Keeping more live stock
and making more manure so as not to
depend entirely on fertilizers to make
the crop. One man jumped up and
said: work fifteen mules In cotton
ana make the crops. and then ] do not
want TO be pestered with cattle"
That is just the trouble with many
they do not want to be farmers all the
year round, but simply to raise n crop
ana then have nothing to poster" them
In winter, when they might, if they
grew plenty of feed and had silo feed
n lot of beef cattle. and have money
from them In the spring to start their
cropping. instead OF starting and do
pending on going in debt for every
thing. Even If the feeding does not
show large profit. 1t furnishes a home
market for the feed. and the farmer has
the manure that is worth more in the
building up of his soil than constant
dependence on fertilizers. valuable as
these are when 1udiciously used No
system of farming that entirely ignores
the keeping Of live stock can ever be
permanently successful. The constantly
advancing price for beef will make the
feeding of stock for beef more and
more matter OF profit in the South.
where we have the great advantages
over the Northern farmers in the great
amount and variety of legume forage
we can grow.
The Dairy.
Dairy farming is very eSactinr
everyday work, but it has the advan-
tagc over beef-feedinG that the money
returns are coming in regularly all the
time. But to make n success of dairy
ing. one must have the best OF we'll
lighted stables, and properly ventilated
ones. ana must use every means of a
sanitary character to make the best
product either OF milk or butter When
one makes really gilt-edEe article
- WI. He can easily ma profitable
market for IT. Years ago lady I'm
the far western part of the North caro-
INA mountains wrote me that she had a
Jersey herd. and was making fine hut
ter, but that the tourist hotels at Ashc
vile used cleo and she could not get -
ialr price Tor her butter. and asked
me how she could make a market 7
told her that as she had direct connec-
ZION TO Atlanta, she could advertise
'here TO supply families regularly, and
could soon make market But said
send me some of your butter. saw TWEEN
ty-nHe pounds, and i Will see what the
express rates TO Raleigh Will make IL
cost me when l pay you 25 cents a
pound, which was the price she wanted.
she sent the butter in neat blocks
wrapped in paraffine paper with
veneer folder around each block and
all packed in crate, rs II was cool
weather. / found that the express rata
MADE II cost me rs cents n pound and
as | was then paying 30 cents pourG
] was glad 10 get such fine butter.
The president Of one of the womcn's
coIlcGes was present in The express
ONCE when received the butter, and
showed II To him. He asked me to let
him try print. did So and later
on having used the rest of tho huttnr
wrote TO the lady to send me another
twenty-five pounds. She wrote that
she was sorry she could not do SO, for
my friend Of the college had contracted
with her to take all she could make
There was market made over 900
miles away. Any one who makes a
first-class article OF butter In the South
can open up a regular market for II
Farmers use printers ink too little
The daily city papers will enable You 10
sell q great many things directly 10 CITY
families it you only use their advertis
ing pages, and get up really good arti-
cics. and have n good name for your
farm, and use stationery with printed
lctterheads telling what YOU usually
have for sale. Get the advertising
habit
The Apple Region of the South.
The Appalachian region, including
the mountain country of Maryland West
Virginia. Virginia. Kentucky East Ten
ncssee Western North Carolina and
Northwest Georgia and South Carolina.
constitute the finest apple growing re-
sion III the eastern part of the United
states. OF course. the same varieties
that have become famous in the North
eastern States and New England are
not suited to this section, but there are
other apples of equally high or better
,.;,