The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-12
WITH THE FARMERS
BY Prof. w. F. MASSEY

Is not ready to advise others until h@
practical way. The college graduate
who has added few years Of reaGI
farming to his training will alwayI
make good demonstrators if he haE|
tho requisite amount OF hard. commohl
sense 1 have moro than once rcd
marked, Just as you do, that the talsd
ing of small piece or land and ferS
tiiiSing 1t heavily so as to make 81
larger crop, Is not helping tho farmeiI
"h'ie instruction In farm management
ana crop rotation. and showing by n
proper method the most economical
methods for soil Improvement will hi
OF the greatest help. Farmers need ia
Know how to produc, results In tbb
most economical way, not how TO mnIe d
IL Dig crop regardless OF expense. buH
now TO produce bushei of wheat on
corn or bale OF cotton ut the leasE
cost to the grower and tho greatest
heip to the land farmer who haH
mado n success OF his own land and MI
fully enthused with the Ideas OF moda
ern progress. will make tho best doJ
inonstrator. whether he has had a cold
lege training or not
Rye In the SilO.
ha'c iarRc area In rye coming
on. and as l have plenty OF silo rootA
have thought to try some OF this / B
the silo. What would be the besA
Stage To cut 1t. and will IL make sIlH
age Yes. 1t will mako silago ans
keep very well. for | have used IL fol-
that purpose But do not advise yoH
to use II. Many years ago. when I wan
managing a large stock farm. 1 had
considerable area In rye that | waE
cutting green and feeding to the cow
In their stalls along with corn silag
and hay, simply TO give them some5
thing fresh and green. They ate thiH
green, unheaded rye very we'll, and IA
seemed to answer the purpose. But
had more Of II than could use In thiH
way, and II ran up into head. the
concluded that l would put the reu
mainder Into silo, and filled one Oh
my silos. having three Of them. hal
full with the rye.
Later ] finished filling IL with cor
and filled the others with corn. Whc
| began feeding ensilagc / started o.
this silo first. When got throuE
the corn silage and started on the rysH
every COW turned UP her nose at 1t, and
would not eat it at all They had gotb
ten used TO better feed and had "a
have it, The rye silnge all went jntE
the manure. and made fairly EooS
absorbent In the manure. but I hay
never since made any rye silage Ry,H
az best. Is poor feed, and only OF yaluA
IN late winter OF early spring as gree
pasture or soiling feed. found frorN
that experiment that I did not need
rye and that ] could get far betteg
reed from winter oats sown early
september. Tor the oats, when nllowc 4
to ripen. made excellent feed whilH
the ripe rye did not. There IL III
crop equal to corn in the siio. / hnvH
seen cowpeas used for siiage and so
beans too. but they both made "A yer
acid silagc. and are far better cured
for hay. AS hay. they are of ver
great value in the balancing OF ,hR
corn silagc ration.
Cottonsrcd Meal
"You say little about cottonseed mo n
a. stock food. Is 1t not OF great valu
Tor this purpose There Is no doubH
or the great value OF cottonseed mead
as concentrated protein food whc
1udiciously fed. But tho great fad thai
mas been com. on of late years In tn
! south. Tor feeding cattle on cottonsceS
meal ana cottonsced hulls as the onI \
r"uGhage, has been the death OF man
cattle friend OF mine in Norts
Carolina started in the dairy bushes
ara concluded that in cot.cnsccd mead
anu huils he had the cheap pest OF feed
ana lie fed his cows literally He 900
found that he was losing cows. and
round that the constant heavy fcedinI
OF meal and hul!s was the cause. BeeI
cattle can be protitably fed on meal
end hulls for about ninety DAYS. buf
II the feeding liz long continued Thea
VIII soon be getting a uracmic pciS
soning from the excess OF nitroga,F
In fact. ! consider cottopsced bulls al
more value as an absorbent in the ina
rrre than food, and when one feedi
cottonseed meal in connection with cord
silage and good hay, the neal can Id
very probably fed. Ny practice wax
20 feed COW an average or $50 pouudS
oailE. sprnkled over iler cnsilage T6
that extent II will he found one Of tn.
I oest concentrated foods that can Id
used. but ] would never feed more of Il
daily. or more than three pounds ID
It beer animal Beef fattened on coil
tonseed meal and bulls only is neveI
hrst-ciass beef. have had 1t in Noril
Carolina RS strong as buck muttonE
from this feed. Once. ct n farmers
institute at Tarboro. the state chem
list told the audience that Professo!
Massey WAS the only man he knew
who said that he could tell beef trut
had been fattened on meal and bulls u,
the smell.
Al once there were n number In Tho
| audience who told him that they could
tell II In the same way But there II
no doubt that when judiciously fell
with good si!age and hay AZ roughagei
cottonseed meal is the most valuable
concentrate We have in the South fol
fedeing stock. 1t has been found that
| hogs cannot eat it safely, but now ID
I has been found by careful experiment.
made at the North Carolina Experiment.
Station, that when a little OF q salt OF
iron, such copperas is mixed with thJ
meal, 1t can be safely fed to hogs Cot
tonsced meal should be kept on thd
Southern farms and fed instead Oh
sending IT abroad for others to feed