Milford chronicle., 1917-08-10
Waste Of Feeding stuffs.

Waste Of Feeding stuffs.
When live stock is grazed upon lands
which cannot proftably be TILED and
made to produce cereals or vegetables
such live stock is a clear profit and an
addition to human food supplies. But
where good conditioned, tillable land is
abandoned to grazing there is likely to
be a definite loss Of vegetable food
stuffs and their byproducts In other
words, land in proper condition can be
made TO produce more fOodstuff values
by cultivation than by use as pastur-
age. However, this does not mean that
soil areas should not have rest-or,
better still liberalization such as is
brought about by use of it for pastur-
ing live stock.
If the byprOducts-the .forage-aris-
ing from cereal and vegetable crops
are not made use of to feed live stock.
then the stock will have to live of Of
what is left of the cereals after human
requirements are fully supplied. Thus
the live stock or meat supply, leaving
out Of consideration that which is pro-
duced solely By grazing on untillable
lands, would represent each years
surplus cereal crop. And a year of
short crops-years when the cereal
surplus is smGll-would bring about
the slaughtering Of stock. reducing the
number to be fed.
The possibilities of byprOduct forage
IN 90
culable The department cf agricul-
ture's report III has much to say con
cerning the values Of such products
have space to quote merely this:
THE animal husbandry division. in
cooperation with the bureau of cror
estimates. has made a study of feeding
stuffs. in which it is shown that t:c-
mendous waste Of feeding stuhs oc-
ours annually on American farms The |
total loss to- farmers from the waste 1
OF corn fodder and straw amounts to |
about s1O2, $4,000 each year. -" A |
nation wide campaign to teach the
value and food unit values Of all the
more common feeding stuIs would be /
a great step toward a more perfect |
agricultural system"
Farmers Should Act.
The bureaus suge estion Of a nation
wide campaign is well and good, and
such propaganda work may become ad.
visable; but. individual farmers should
not wait for such movement. They
now know. In fact, the individual
farmer who begins on his own account
10 use all of the byproducts of his
,ropping hitherto wasted viii make
arger profits than If he wait until all
)ther farmers are induced to do like.
wise. The farmer or live stock raiser
who is not utilizing all Of the byprod
lcts of his farm is not only losing
money, but he is working an injury
lpon all the people Of the United
States. The efficient farmer is the one
who utilizes every bit Of green stuff
hat grows on his place and, after he
his grain crops, takes the res
due and stores it in such a manner
hat It does not lose its worth and then
transforms this into meat by feeding
to live stock.
American Live Stock Problem.
The true test Of the American live
took problem is. What do American
I've stock conditions show when com
'ared with what they might be?
! have shown that the report Of the
nimal husbandry division estimates
hat the annual loss in waste Of straw
nd fodder amounts to more than .
undred million dollars. It is not prac-
lcable to discuss the intricate phases
Z live stock feeding in so brief an ar.