American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-02-20
FODDER CROP FOR DRY FARM
MILO 70 Surest Yielding Grain drown
IN Arid sect'ons-AdvIce on Vow
to Feed to Stock. i

Oy PROF. H. N. CorTREI
Milo Is the surest Yielding
crop that Is grown in the dry Ia
lion OF eastern Colorado. ,
Kansas and Oklahoma, the Pa
die OF Texas and eastern Ne,
leo.
Inc United States department
ricuiture reports the average
LOT hve years at Amarillo. Tex. l.
otner dry land experiment stations -
~ bushels of grain per acre a year
Farmers In the same section report
yields OF thirty to lfty-iye bushels an
acre.
a ousnel OF milo will produce from
ton 70 eleven pounds OF pork. This
uahes the average annual pork pro-
AUCTION from the dry lands OF the
southwest equal to 400 and upwards
pounds per acre where milo Ia grown
and fed.
Ten pounds of milo have the same
feeding value for horses. beef and
oairy cattle, hogs mt sheep ~ nine
pounds of corn.
MILO Is the corn for the plains Of
Inc southwest and should be grown
instead OF corn whever the annual
rainfall drops below 25 inches. Farm
prs IN the Pan Handle OF Texas sal
mat 1t never fails to yield a CROP of
grain, and that 1t will yield 20 bushels
IN acre In years SO dry that wheat il
IN absolute failure.
Milo should have the same place in
1ry and farming that corn has in Iowa
Ahd illinois 1t has nearly the COM
position OF corn, like feeding qualities,
ana can be used with profit for the
feeding OF every class Of farm animals
to which corn is fed.
Horses doing heavy farm work
should be given three feeds of Milo
grain a day. 1t is usually fed in the
nead' one-half more heads being given
nan would be given ears of corn.
Most teamsters prefer to feed milo
IN the head, cutting the main STEM OF
close to the head. The main jstem of
The head and the many little stems to
which the seeds are attached force the
horses to do a large amount of hewing
peiore the grain can be swallowed,
and this mastication grinds the grain
and mixes 1t with the saliva, increas-
Ing the proportion digested.
The seeds of milo are small, and
when the threshed grain is fed to the
horses, 1t is chewed very little and
much OF the seed passes through I'M
1igested. Ground milo makes a good !.
horse feed.
Horses and mules have stood we'll.
With hard work all summer, such as
breaking prairie. with no grain bus
milo. Colts and horses not workir
may be fed milo foider just az
and heads.
kahr corn or early amber sorg
planted in rows rather thickly an
In bloom. with a binder,
! good hay for horses whose rs
ICED is milo.
i, When fattening cattle are f.
IN feed. they may be given m
Ter, heads n stalks togetheed-
'rop cut with a binder and kept Ii
he shock until cured. Z.
After thirty days OF such feeding.
he waste becomes too great, and it
vii pay to snap the heads from the
talks and feed them in grain boxes,
same as ear corn.
For the final feeding. after the
have become fairly fat. 1t will
ay to grind the milo.
The heads may be ground without
hreshing. the small stems to which
he seeds are fastened forming a !
round roughage. or the heads
Q threshed and the clear gs
The best laxative feed to giv
eng fattened on milo is greelTRAr.
lI0u0 nay cut to retain most plains
ado IN