Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-27
MANkINO'S GREAT NEED
IS MORE ANIMAL FOOD
Live Stock Raising and Its Re-
Iation to Cereal ByprOducts.

Iation to Cereal Byproducts.
BY GEORGE W. WEBER In Wsber's
Weekly.
To continue to exist-that Is the
primordial demand Of life. And to re-
main alive requires. FIRST of all, sub
sistence-food. Clothing comes next,
then shelter, then fuel Science has
gone far and wide in its study Of hui
man foodstuffs-to determine their rel
alive values in dietetics. But, for the
most part, this article has nothing to
do with their conclusions. valuable as
they are. More broadly. it will con-
slider merely the relatively Of the two
great foodstuff elements. which are:
Products Of the soil-grain. vegeta-
bles. fruits.
Animal acknowledgements, fish, eggs.
butter.
Live stock-domestic animals propa-
gated for food-live upon substantially
the same vegetable products which hu-
man beings consume and require. In
asmuch as man and animals eat the
same sort Of vegetable products there
Is an actual competition between them
for such vegetable foodstuffs as may
be derived from the soil. Man, being
the stronger, dominates and controls
the production and supply Of vegeta-
BILE food products. From each years
crop, 6rst Of all. he takes what he re-
quires, feeds himself, and permits what
Is left to 60 to feed live stock. Thus,
1t appears, that our live stock-our
meat supply resource-is dependent in
large part upon what man, having fed
himself, leaves Of the annual products
Of the soil. OF course there Is other
vegetation which live stock can be
fed upon-vegetable matter which man
does not require and cannot eat.
Live stock can be maintained and, to
some extent. prepared for market by
grazing.
Live stock can be raised and made
marketable by feeding upon the by
products from cereal and other vege-
table crops.
Waste Of Feeding etufss.
When live stock is grazed upon lands
which cannot probably be titled and
made to produce cereals or vegetables
such live stock is q clear profit and an
addition to human food supplies. But
where good conditioned, tillable land Is
abandoned to graxing 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 foodstuf values
by cultivation than by use AZ pastur-
age. However, this does not mean that
soil areas should not have rest-or,
better still. liberalization such as il
brought about by use Of 1t for pastur-
ing live stock.
II 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 or 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 bs grazing on untillable
lands, would represent each years
surplus cereal crop. And year Of
short crops-years when the cereal
surplus Is small-would bring about
the Strengthening Of stock. reducing the
number to be fed.
The possibilities Of byproduct forage
feeding are farreaching, almost meal
culable. The department Of agr1cul-
lures report liz has much to say con-
corning the values Of such products. l
have space to quote merely this:
1.-THE animal husbandry division, In
cooperation with the bureau of crop
estimates. has made study OF feeding
stuffs. In which 1t Ii shown that a tre-
mendOus waste Of feeding stuffs oc-
ours annually ON American farms. The
total loss to farmers from the waste
OF corn fodder and straw amounts to
about 500, 100000 each year. = - A
nation wide campaign to teach the
value and food unit values Of all the
more common feeding stu1fs would be
a great step toward a more perfect
agricultural system"
Farmers Should Act.
The bureaus suggestion OF 4 nation
wide campaign Ia well aud 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
to use all Of the byproducts OF his
cropping hitherto wasted will make
larger profits than II he wait until all
other farmers are induced to do like
wise. The farmer or live stock raiser
who Is not utilizing all Of the byprod-
ucts of his farm Is not only losing
money, but he Is working an injury
upon all the people Of the United
States. The efficient farmer IL the one
who utilities every bit OF green stnfY
that grows on his place and, after he
harvests his grain crops. takes the res
idue and stores It In such manner
that II does not lose its worth and then