The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-09-07

sept. 7, 1916.
8. Feed all the cows will
take without gaining in
weight. The rule in regard to
the amount of grain to feed per
day to each COW applies only
when good roughness, such as
corn silage and clover, COW
peas or alfalfa hay is used.
The balance ration for COW
producing twenty-five pounds
of milk a day should be fed 80
pounds of dry matter, which
are as follows: Nine pounds
alfalfa, Z pounds cornmeal, 3
pounds and 10 pounds red top.
This is proven out to be a
sufficient feed for mich COW
producing % pounds of milk a
day. One reason why the
average farmer makes a mis-
take in feeding his cows ra-
tions that are not properly
balanced is that it is easier, or
he thinks it is, to grow feeds
that are excessively rich in
carbohydrates and lacking in
protein. This comes about
principally by the large amount
OF corn and timothy hay grown
and used. It is impossible from
these feeds to make a ration
that supplies the necessary
nutrients to produce much
milk. Alfalfa makes the bal
anced ration on every farm in
North Dakota and without it
diversified farming can never
develop successfully.
The advantage of dairying
are set forth in a paper entitled
Soils benefited by raising
cattle by H. G. Vanpelt, edi-
tor of Kimbaps Dairy Farm of
Waterloo, Iowa. Mr.. Vanpelt
was one of the prominent live
stock authorities attending the
convention held at GrandFork
a short time ago. In his adj
dress he told of creamery in
a northern Iowa town of 500
inhabitants which during the
past ten years has paid the
farmers living within radius
of ten miles, about 81, 900. 600.
In another town of 500 inhabit-
ants $4,000 bushels of corn were
shipped last year. There is
nothing startling about either
of these statements" said the
speaker, for many creamery
pays it's patrons $10O, 600 a de-
cade, and not large creamery
is required to do this well
either, and many a town in the
corn belt ships more than 8O,-
GOO bushels of corn annually.
At thirty cents per pound the
farmers of the community in
northern Iowa sold their little
creamery 1888, 333 pounds of
butter fat. At so cents per
bushel, the farmers of the other
community sold to the elevator
$4O, 600 worth of corn. For al
ten year period at this rate
500, 600 bushels of corn, bring
ing a total of $500, 600. Now
let us think. Let us analyze
and determine what is going
on in these two communities
separated from each other by
less than 200 miles. In 8, $685.
333 pounds of butter fat there
are 1888 worth of fertilizing
ingredients. That is the value
of the fertilizers removed from
the community with radius
of ten miles with the 81, ,OOO, COO
worth OF butter fat sold in ten
years. In 100000 bushels OF
corn there are $3.50, GOO worth
Of fertilizing ingredients figur-
led at the normal price of 20
cents per pound for phosphoric
acid and potash which is the
value of the fertility removed
from the community of ten
miles radius with $4OO, GOO
worth of corn. Now. these
statements proves that it will
be a good paying proposition to
the farmers of this country to
invest their money into a good
dairy business and practice
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