Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-23
The Talent TidinQs
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full ration, goes to the maintenance
of the COW, the balance to the pro-
duction of milk and butter fat. If
the ration be cut down one-fourth.
that is taken almost entirely from
the production of butter fat, the
amount going to maintenance of the
COW being practically constant. thus
cutting the production down one
half.
A COW to be profitable at present
prices OF cattle and feed should pro-
duce not less than 250 pounds of
butter fat per year No COW giving
milk testing less than per cent is
profitable to keep.
Being questioned as to food ra-
tions, Prof. Kent stated that alfalfa
alone was not sufficient to make a
successful and profitable ration.
Corn meal was best to balance al
falfa ration, when it could be raised
or bought at a reasonable price
Bran was not so good a feed to use
in connection with alfalfa as either
ground or rolled barley or corn meal,
kale or root crops.
In introducing Prof Hyslop, pro-
lessor of agronomy at the o. A. c.,
to the institute Prof. Reimer told of
the modern methods which save
everything. He stated that even the
squeals of the hogs slaughtered in
the big packing plants had been util-
lied, instancing the case where one
of the big packing plants recorded
the squeals of the dying hogs on
monographs and then at the st.
Louis exposition reproduced the rec
ords to attract the attention of the
crowd to their exhibit of pork prod
ucts.
Prof. Hyslop's subject was "a
Proper Cropping System for Hogs. "
He started out by saying that Prof.
Kent had called attention to the
beauty of the scenery and the per-
fection of the climate for human be-
ings, but it remained for him to tell
of its adaptability for hogs. He stat
ed that there was no danger of over
production because Oregon was an
nually shipping in thousands of live
hogs as we'll as large amounts of
hog products. Oregon could pro-
duce excellent pork at a minimum
of expense. Alfalfa, field peas, corn,
rape and barley could all be grown
successfully in the valley. 1t was
possible, he said, by proper arrange
ment to let the hogs do most of the
harvesting, themselves. Alfalfa
alone, he said, is fairly good food fol
hog pasturing. In fact, it is The
keystone of a cropping system fol
hogs. 1t makes an early spring anC
summer feed which cannot be beater
for growing young hogs. Red clover
is also good. Dwarf Essex rape is
available in the dry season, while in
the late summer months there is the
Canadian field pea, which is very nu-
tritious and a good finishing food
They must be sown early, however
to get the very best results. They
are ready for pasturing when the
peas are at the table stage. Tempo
rary fences can be placed through
the fields so as to pasture a small
portion at once, thus compelling the
hogs to clean them up pretty well
without wasting. Even after the
vines get beyond the feeding stage
the hogs will seat the peas and do
well on them.
For finishing hogs there is moth
ing better, however, or quite so good
as corn. Early corn may be, Prof.
Hyslop stated, profitably pastured.
Hogs may be turned into it, he said,
when it is in the stiff dough and just
beginning to glaze. The pasturing
can be continued until the ground
gets too wet for pasture.
For late feeding the corn may be
either cut and husked or cut and
fed on the stalks, the hogs eating
the corn and some of the fodder, but
leaving the stocks.
For carrying over the breeding
stock winter barley is second only
to corn. Both are fed either rolled
or ground. For a proper rotation
of crops to secure best results and
keep up the ground there should be
forage crop such as corn, roots,
ETC., and a cereal such as barley or
rye.
At noon the entire assemblage was
invited to dinner which was served
in the basement Of the school house
by the wives of the members of the
Commercial Club with Peter Wander
sluis as chief of commissary. The
dinner was a decided success and
proved that whatever the girls of
Talent might need in. the way of
training in the cookery branch of
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