Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-08
DAIRY COMMISSIONERS BARNEY
ADVOCATES USE FOR BOTH
BEEF AND DAIRY CATTLE.
BIG SAVING IN COST
OF MEAT AND MILK
Says Number Of SiIos in Iowa Should
Be Doubled by September 1-sasss
Opinion on Personal Expsrisnes Of
Twenty-Five Years-Governor Urged
to Set Aside "Swat the Rooster Day
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican,
Des Moines, May s--w. B. Barney.
state food and dairy commissioner, be-
lieves that one Of the most important
factors in food conservation on the
farm is the silo. He advocates it's use
for both beef and dairy cattle and says
that it would be a big saving in the
cost OF producing both beef and milk
If IL were more generally used.
Why not double the number OF Slcs
by Sept. !. 1917" asked Commissioner
Barney today. The feeding value OF
our corn crop can be increased so to
40 per cent without Increasing the
acreage This can be done by putting
the crop into the silo.
y have used a silo for over twenty
five years and feel sure that an esti-
mate OF 80 per cent increase in the
| feeding value Of corn is most conserv
alive when converted into ensiiage.
we hear much OF late about the
| conservation Of our food to sustain hui
man and animal life he continued.
| Is il not well to remember if we will
| save this great waste in our corn fields
there viii De little mex; CO nlnEz!ns mn
the roadsides and railway right Of
ways:
The Iowa corn crop for 1915
] amounted &C es5. 49, nn0 bushels I do
not think ten per cent OF this went
| into the silo. / am free TO admit that
Atty per cent should be husked and
used for commercial purposes leaving
the other half TO go TO the silo II We
would get the greatest possible amount
OF feed ont OF it. This leaves 42,7l7.-
900 bushels
II we were 20 deduct 10 per cent.
| which think is more than goes TO our
silos, We would have left 40 per cent
or 12Ssi5.3e0 bushels. worth az Least
| 81 per bushei or sles4.5.300. Thirty
per cent Of this would De $3.50. SEQ
| bushels. worth 81 bushel. or s3s.533.-
! $50, representing the saving that Will
! come 10 the state by proper handling
Of our greatest agricultural crop.
| II your neighoor should go into his
! foTty-acre oa- field, cut over SO 10 20
! per cen: Of the crop and leave the bail
/ lance 10 go 20 waste. you would think
him a Al subject for the insane asylum
Te, that is Substantially what happens
when you husk your corn and leave
/ the stocks in the field.
The saving Of this hearty $4,000.
(; SOD worth Of feed would mean more
beef pork and mutton as well as more
| butter. cheese and oIher dairy pro-
ducts
| Swat the Rooster" Day.
| Governor ". Ia Harding viii be
asked 10 issue proclamation to Sc,
aside certain day as swat the roost-
er day
| This is 20 be in the interes, OF egg
conservation. Inferale eggs will Keep
| much better than fertile eggs the state
| food and dairy department points ont
and therefore the dspartn ent will ini-
Tiate campaign TO get rid Of the
ROSTERS during the warm summer
| months
II. all Of the ROSTERS were dispensed
with the state department estimates
saving of fully ten per cent in eggs,
which otherwise become unfit for Use,
| would be accomplished
In statement just now being issued
the state department points out the
following.
Produce only infertile eggs for mar
ket because they do not spoil so quick
| ly as the fertile eggs
Dispose of ROSTERS as soon az eggs
needed for Matching are obtained The
eggs keep better and the hens will lay
just as many.
Provide plenty Of clean nests with
clean straw IN them.
Gather eggs twice daily in the hot
weather and store them in a cool,
sweet, well ventilated place but do not
put them IN damp places.
Market them as often as possible
and carry them gently.
Do not sell eggs from stolen nests.
! Use them at home.
Protect eggs from the sun wnen
| taking them TO market. Eggs exposed
. 10 the not sunshine for one hour will
| spoil. This applies TO fertile as well
as TO infertile eggs
| Candle your eggs. Insis, On having
good eggs and pay accordingly"
The spring conference Of the dairy
and food department is to be held dur
ing the next three days and food con-
servation will be the leading topic UNI
| der discussion. Governor Harding,
Dean c. F. Curtiss OF department Of
agriculture at Ames, George A. Wells,
secretary of the Western Grain Deal
ers' Association, Frank NJ Meyers.
secretary Of the Farmers Grain Deal
ers' Association of Iowa, l.. 81, Toi-
man, chief Of the central food and drug
inspection district for the government,
and Mark A. Hagensick, secretary OF
the wholesale egg, butter and poultry
dealers association, will be among the
speakers.
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