Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
COLLEGE EXPERTS TELL BEST WAYS TO FARM
Weeks Institute Agriculture Horticulture Dairy
ing Brings Out Many Important PoinsAttendance Lighter
Than Anticipated President Bryan Talks
ing-Nystrom Discusses Dairying and Live Stock.

The Inck of interest displayed by tn,
majority of the farmers of this count ,
in the free short course offered by ca
peris of the Pullman State College al
iy small attendance at all the sessions
Is so remarkable that Il should be se-
riOu>iy Iamcnted.
win some farmer please write and
tell us why:
We will print his Ietter-we will
print all the letters ON this subject the
farmers will writc--if by doing so w.
can find out the reason.
BE plain about it-tcH us the truth
too early in the fall, say so; if some
thing else is the reason, tell us that
Tell us. whatever 1t tx.
More farmers than had attended any
previous day of the course met at the
Eagles hall Thursday afternoon to
hear President e. A. Bryan of the
! Pullman State College deliver a lee
ture on diversified Farming" From
the standpoint of the speaker and the
subject discussed, this was probably
the most important feature of the en-
tire weeks course on farming offered
In Olympia this week by experts of the
Pullman State College and the West
ern Washington Experiment Station
at Puyallup.
President Bryan did not arrive on
the morning train Thursday as ex-
pected, so the program for the day
was somewhat altered, but he was ex-
pected here at $3.50 in the afternoon,
when he would deliver his address and
proceed on to Aberdeen in the even
ing. 1t is possible, however, that the
lecture may not be given until today,
depending upon the time of Mr.. Bry-
ans arrival in the city.
Today and tomorrow remain of the
course and an entirely new variety of
subjects are scheduled for considera-
tion. Farm mechanics, home mechan-
les, domestic science and poultry rails
ing are the general subjects, to be dis
cussed by l. D. Charlton. Miss A. H.
Craig, Miss A. B. Wimple, pure food
inspector of the department of agri-
culture, and Mrs. H. D. Whitaker. Mrs.
Josephine Preston, state superintend-
ent of schools. will address the school
Saturday noon
A smaller attendance than had been
anticipated has been noted throughout
the course and has been variously ex-
planned. The statement has been made
that If the course had been held a
month later more farmers would have
attended, many now said to be busy
in digging potatoes and doing the fin
ishing work on other crops.
Thursday mornings session, as Wed
nesday's. touched upon a subject that
is receiving particular attention
among the farmers when A. B. Ny.
strom discussed THE Economical
Feeding of Dairy Cows" The ideal
ration, he said, must have sufficient nu-
triton, sufficient bulk and succulence,
must be palatable and must have vari-
ETY.. 1t should consist of some hay,
preferably legume, with green crops
pasture, roots or silage-and some
grain.
Select the grain ration last" he ad-
vised, "as the principal ration should
be the crops grown on the farm. The
grain ration should be selected to fit
in with the roughage ration and the
cows should be fed according to what
she produces. Those giving Is pounds
of milk or less as rule need no grain,
and the usual ration of grain for the
high producers is one pound to every
31a pounds of milk.
Feed your dairy cows all the hay
they will eat" he continued" and about
as many pounds of green feed as they
produce pounds Of milk per day" He
urged the farmers to feed the cows in
dividually. saying it is not economy to
throw the same amount of feed before
all the animals. as the low producer
would then be overfed and the high
producer underfed.
in selecting the ration" he contin-
ued, you should not be guided en-
tirely by the cost per ton of feed. If,
for example, we are to supply protein
to ration, it would be cheaper to buy
soy bean meal at S45 a ton than bran
at $50 ton, because the former con-
tains more than twice as much digesti-
BILE protein"
In the afternoon Mr.. Nystrom gave a
demonstration of the Babcock tester
and showed the farmers how to keep