Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-09-11
g Mixtures of Wheat and Othel
Grains.

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Where wheat Is mixed with othel
grains and there is less than thirt,
per cent of wheat in the mixture, sucl
mixtures may be ground and uset
for feed without restriction. Mixtures
containing larger percentage o.
wheat than thirty per cent should bt
separated. This ruling is made OF
account of the scarcity of fodder
grains. Barley can now be fed tt
live stock by farmers.
The County Agent has received g
letter from Mr.. E. G. Porter of the
Silver Spring creamery which gives
some very interesting facts Of the Far.
mers' Cooperative creamery for the
month Of June
The two creameries, the one at Del
hi and the other located at Delaware
received 3S6,52O pounds of milk in
92,279 pounds of cream, containing in
all 390,544 pounds of butterfat for
which was paid out $1S,960.7O. OF
the 251 patrons who are sending their
products to the creamery they re-
ceived on an average of 1854 for the
month of June. They paid 48c for
butterfat. The average test of the
milk was 346 and the average test
Of cream 1872 They overran on the
butter 20 per cent.
Mr.. Porter says that the COWS are
only fair grade in their community,
being Shorthorn, Holstein, Guernsey
and Ayrshire. The majority of the
patrons have silos, some of them two.
They feed considerable concentrates,
especially oil meal. Cotton seed meal,
gluten feed and other meal stun are
also being brought In in carload lots
and handled on the basis of an aver
age of soc per ton for patrons. Win
ter ,dairying is followed by many In
this vicinity.
The County Agent is certainly
pleased to note the success of the
Farmers Cooperative creamery in
the Silver Spring district. Other re-
ports will probably be received from
other cooperative creameries as time
goes on which we will also be pleased
to publish as we are interested in
the success of all the cooperative en-
terprises.
Silage Good War Ration for Reef
Steers.
Steers fed only on silage, alfalfa
and cottonseed cake at the Nebraska
Experiment Station last spring in
comparison with lots fed corn and al
falfa and corn, alfalfa and cotton
seed cake, showed that silage rather
than corn is the best war ration for
beef steers. The silage, alfalfa and
cottonseed cake steers made 90
pounds of gain against 81 pounds and
2.5 pounds respectively for the other
lots. They produced less pork per
steer from the hogs following and their
appraised value was from IS to5O cents
lower per 100 pounds. However, the
fact that their gains cost in one case
$3.50 and in the other $3.41 per 100
pounds less than the corn and alfalfa
steers, brought them to the close of the
experiment with profit of 1888 per
steer, which while both other lots lost
money During the 100 day feeding
period the corn fed s1eers consumed
in one case AZ bushels and in the other
SO bushels of corn per steer that might
have been used for human food or for
pork production. The silage consumed
by each of the silage fed steers con-
tanned a little less than II bushels of
corn.
With alfalfa yielding 5 tons, corn 40
bushels and silage s tons per acre it
required IL acres to grow the corn
and alfalfa to feed one Of the first lot
of steers for 100 days; IL acres for
steer fed corn, alfalfa and cottonseed
cake, and As acres for one of the sill
age fed steers. 1t is true that the sill
age fed steers ate 494 pounds Of cot
tonseed cake per head, while lot ate
none and lot ate but 222 pounds.
Cottonseed cake at $50 per ton, how
ever, was a much cheaper feed, results