The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-03-21
Established 1860. 57th Year No. %

| crops in summer and in the winter
get busy spinning them into beef,
pork, mutton, milk or other animal
products we play the double parts
above mentioned and reap both pro-
fits. Again we enrich our lands, keep
better labor and employ ourselves
more advantageously.
Breeding.
To get a clearer vision of our du-
ties and opportunities, let us carry
a little further the illustration of the
factory. Within the factory, the sue
cessful operator installs the best ma
chinery that he can possibly acquire
| because he knows that inefficient
machinery will sooner or later bring
him to ruin. 1t is equally important
to the farmer to place within his
farm factory the most efficient ma
chine possible, in the form of the
animal. That means the class of an
imal that will top the market when
ready for sale. 1t would be gross
| inefficiency to feed our corn into
hogs that will bring seven cents when
the stop notchers" are selling for
eight. 1t is folly to keep a cow that
gives 5000 pounds of milk in a year
when she could be replaced by one
that would give 10000 pounds.
The improvement in the grade or
quality of animals can be most adj
vantageously secured under average
conditions by the use of the pure
bred sire upon our native females,
selecting the hest progeny for fur
Their breeding and By the occasional
purchase of a pure bred female. To
say that the sire is half the herd does
not adequately express his value
when the sire is pure bred. In such
case he has long ancestry devoted
to particular purpose. When such
sire is mated to a female, bred to
no particular purpose, it is reason
able to expect greater potency on
the part of the sire than on the part
of the dam.
Feeding.
The manufacturer of the cotton
goods would not think of supplying
only cloth enough to a machine to
weave fifty yards of cloth in day,
if that machine had a capacity of
eighty yards That would be running
with his efficiency ruinously reduced.
Likewise we should feed an animal
all the feed that it has the capacity
for utilizing forAthe animal is only a
machine for converting the raw pro-
ducts of our farm into a manufac-
tured article. We sometimes see far
mers who seem to be trying to see
how little they can give their stock.
They forget that a large proportion
of the ration il consumed 10 maintain
the animal and that in cutting down
the ration they preclude the POSSIBLE
ity of gain, or a profit to the feed
er. The ration may be thus reduced
either in total amount given or by
allowing a deficiency in some compo-
nent of the ration, such as protein.
To reduce the protein means to re-
duce the ration, for the body econ
omy requires definite proportions.
We consequently are forced to study
the balancing ratiOns.
Success in farming is so dependent
upon a knowledge of such points as
the balancing of rations, proper fer
tilization and rotation of crops, care
of fruit trees, ETC., that it seems
hardly possible to reach the highest
success without the services of a
county agricultural agent. Lincoln
county should lose no time in apply
ing for such an agent.
Miss Sweeney's subject was the
Education Value of Home Econo-
mics" She spoke as follows:
Two of the most vital institutions
in the development of society are the
school and the home. In the school
the child has trained his social, indus
trial and civic ideals and in the hands
of the teacher lies the molding power
of the future citizens of any COM
monwealth. AS public servants in our
public school system the teachers are
fast realizing that their real mission |
is to train their pupils for good cit |
izenship by building their characters |
and giving them ideals, which means
the training of hand and eye for use
full action i
At the birth of our republic in the /
earliest years of our educational his |
tory the home was both school and |
industrial center where the child was |
taught all which at that time was in
cluded in culture and was also given |
the training necessary for the worlds |
trades because the worlds manufac-
turing was done in the home. Grad /
ually due to many factors the indus
tries shifted from the home to the
factory and the educational function |
to the school.
Steadily, imperceptibly these three
worlds, the business, the school and |
the home which had previously been
one in the home, became widely sep
arated. The school has become large
ly a center for culture a place for
the study of world history, world Ian
guage and world life. The factory
has come to be entirely detached from
and exists for commerce
and revenue only. The home slowly
evolved from an economic educational
and moral center into sort of shrine
an institution apart from society,
from trade, and from the schools.
Each world by this isolation has suf-
fered an irreparable loss. One by
one the functions formerly perform
ed by the home for the child have
been taken over by the school, for
the world has come to realize that
the school is the best medium by
which society can give to the individ-
ual those opportunities of body and
mind which will render him a heal
thy, intelligent, useful citizen. The
state realizes that its prosperity, in
tellipence and commerce denend not