Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-03

Of fat per year. what acreage Is required In M,
| community Willamette vnIley--to grow bal
fore State Dairymens Association Conferences
January7 1851
Some years ago In the Willamette
valley there was good deal Of tall
about COW TO the acre. Dairymer
and farm papers conceded that the
Willamette valley ought some day tc
support COW per acre. / am not 60
ing to talk on the minimum acreage
required, because do not think that
Is the problem. i am going to talk
about the most economical and con-
venient acreage, because there is such
thing as extravagance in over-iBten-
sity. believe it is policy for the av-
erage dairy man in the Willamette
valley to buy some of his concentrates.
| doubt If it is the best method to- at
tempt TO produce all Of his feed on the
farm. This will be true as long as
the big farmers in Eastern Oregon are
content to continue robbing their
farms of soil fertility and transferring
that value to us. believe it 10 policy
on the average farm to grow some
cash crops along with the dairy prod
ucts.
BY investigation we find that the
better herds in the Willamette valley
we got records last year from six
herds scattered around through four or
five counties, comprising one hundred
and thirty cows--the average feed was
476l pounds of, hay, .2647 pounds Of
silage, 1854 pounds of green feed (br
5000 pounds of succulent feed), 1865
pounds Of grain, and on the average
they were pastured alittle less than
four months. The average price was
$500 per month. These COWS pro-
duced the average 307 pounds of fat.
II they fed hay for eight months, it
would amount to twenty pounds per
day, and green feed for ten months
would still amount to thirty pounds per
day; grain feed, five and two thirds
pounds. Granting that the average
farm in the Willamette valley that
has been fairly we'll kept will yield
two and one half tons to the acre, Of
green feed twelve tons per acre, and
fifty bushels of oats, or its equal in
weight in any other grain, from those
yields it,requires nearly two acres, or
l.92 acres, to grow the feed per COW,
provided one-third of the concentrates
are bought, as /, believe on the aver
age they are. If all the grain is
bought, it only requires 1877 acres.
My idea of the average dairy farm
n the Willamette valley would not be !
o try to keep as many cows as possi-
lie per acre, but to get q fairly good
ized herd and grow some cash crops.
'ake an eighty-acre farm and divide 1t
nto four divisions. = One will grow
he hay for twenty cows, and probably
/ bull and a. few head of calves orr
division of twenty acres.
mother twenty-acre divisiUn in a.
econd crop of clover will furnish pas
ure for most of the summer. Another
wenty acres will grow the green feed
nd silage, and vegetables for the FAM
y, and six or eight acres of potatoes
Dr. market if the dairy farm is so sit
ated that he can market potatoes
lccessfully. IL you are too far from
ne market to ship potatoes, that ad-
itional acreage can be put to corn.
is well to put it to some. cultivated
rop for the sake of the rotation.
row corn and feed it to the hogs,
hich 60 well with cows. Another
ivisien can be put to grain, and will
1pply grain to the herd and for the
orses on the farm and six or eight ,
cres for market. . II
Starting with one COW for every
,ur acres, in the course of four or
We years there will be no Trouble at
Il IN increasing the yield to twice
,ese amounts keeping COW for every
vo acres, and still produce cash
.op besides. We have asked the
airy men this question: In your es-
nation, how much have you been :
Die to increase your yields as the re-
llt of the growing of leguminous t
ops and the application of manure? .
ut of the six who were asked this
lestion, two said they had increased {
eir yields fifty per cent, two said q
ey had increased their yields of hay 0
ID grain fifty per cent, and increased v
cir yield of green feed one hundred q
r cent, and one. had increased his II
elds two hundred per- cent, and an Il
her four hundred per cent. 1t is "
ct there isno place where the soil IL
spends to the use of manure as it 81
es in the Willamette valley, no place t.
here so much depends on the man. N
up increases, these six rec g
ds would be an increase of one hum 81
ed and forty per cent, so feel the Ia
Try men in the Willamette valley are W
le to do what these six have done. "
at fully agrees with my other state pl
mt that the yield can be doubled. ~
'elieve it is policy to try to run a
Try to a little more full capacity
IN we have been doing in the past.
great many men in the Willamette eff
LEY are keeping six or seven cows W
en they ought to keep twenty. 1t CO
res almost as much time and equip
mt for six or seven as it does for m
enty. You have to have the equip be
mt, do SO much looking after the al
vs., haul the cream to market. But XII
lso believe there is extravaganza in al
sr-intensity, as when a man tries to E