Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-14

CWritten Specially for The BulIetin)
 Farming includes not merely the growing of crops but the marketing of the crops, when harvested. A good many of you probably will agree with me in thinking that this last is the
 most pernickety proposition of the tive. There are a whole lot of far mers who can raise pretty good crops. There aren't so many who can mar ket them to the best advantage and the largest profit.
 Moreover, there is hardly and sub ject connected with the farm about of opinicn ana of method as this one of dispo,ing of the farms products.
 The feeding is strong among many bulky crops off the farm,. but to feed them ous on the farm and sell the meat pr dairy or egg products resulting:
 There is a great deal to be said in trates which require less hard lifting and cost less for transportation. It sells manufactured goods which are naturally worth more per unit, than raw material. It keeps on the farm, as a fertilizing supply. the wastes which inevitably occur in all manufac turing.
 It surely seems reasonable to argue that it Is better to sell milk and butter, if reasonable prices can be obtained for them, than to sell hay and and oats, etc. It is better to sell pork than to sell the grains out of which pork is made. Because, if for no other req son, the feeding out on the farm of bulky crops not only produces valuable and conc Gentrated products of uniVer- sal demand, but also preserves on the farm, manure with which to grow other crops, a large proportion of the original crops value-a proportion var iously estimated at from g quarter to a thdd
 It is perfectly easy to see that, if one can sell milk or butter or pork for as much as he could get fer the hay and grain out of which they are de- veloped and still retain on the farm the entire manuriaI value of the hay and grains thus fed,-in such a case the economy of farm feeding is un- deniable.
 If is this sort of reasoning which really rGerlies all the dairies of the lande Also ali the beef and pork pro ducting Ianges. And the poultry plants.
 if is simply a shre~d combination of production. manufacture and market Ing. so arranged as to get the most possible income from the crops grown and yet save big percentage of crop values as fertilizer for future crops.
 But of late there has grown up in l many parts of the east a belief that l sggs and pork and butter and milk, etc. l
 
 the larger part or even all of the feeds | necessary to produce them. buys them off the farm instead of raising | them on the farm.
 Sa far as I have been able to find out l fully half and I fancy even a larger ! proportion of the poultry plants in my . Vicinity have to import practically all { the feed for their fowls
 They do not keep hens for the pur- i; pose of transforming the farms grains, ] Etc, into higher-priced and more read I ly sellable eggs or broilers, but to pro- luce eggs and broilers from feeds bought outside the farm.
 There's a mighty big difference be- tween the two things.
 During the present season I have aeard. directly or indirectly. of half | hundred sizable poultry plants be- ng abandoned owing to the high prices If grain. The owners had to pay so much for the hens ratiors that they couldn't sell their eggs for enough 0 pay the feed bills.
 One neighbor,, who has several thou and birds still, told me, the other day, hat, fin spite. of its being the moult- ng season, he was still selling about II worth of eggs a day. He raises ater remarked that he had just bought i've tons of wheat at s3.6G a hundred ind three tons of oats at $3 60 to feed ( hem, finding this cheaper than corn I IT any of the scratch" feeds It will take quite a time at the rate ' f s11 day for eggs to get back the 2 5.40 paid out for one lot of feed ' This particular hen man, however, Y airks he shall be able to make q t we" of it. He knows his fowls I throughout and sells off the sterile T irds as rapidly as possible, thus keep I 1g the proportion of producing hens f the highest percentage feasible. He aro sells the manure at good prices. nd ddsposea of practically all .tthe 2