Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-21

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methods of feeding; also which
feeds were best to use. He gave
the results Of some of these test:
which we're very interesting anc
instructive. He said that over {
period of three or more years
that they experimental to deter
mine which was the more eco
nomical feed, corn or cane silage
and after a thorough test, decided
in favor of the corn silage. While
admitting a greater tonnage OF
| sorghum could be produced to the
acre, yet it had only a feeding
value of Is per cent of corn sill
age and then it was much more
expensive to plant, cut, and fill
the silo with sorghum than with
corn. Next they fed cattle to
! find out whether it would be bet
ter to feed cattle in barn with
small lot, in barn with large lot,
or confined in barn. They found
out that it paid to have the cattle
confined in the barn with good
clean water for them 10 drink
right in the barn, that is, cattle
which you were finishing on feed
and we're not going to Craze. Mr..
Goods idea is. if you are finishing
cattle without grazing that the
best method Is this. Have barn
with trough of good clean water
in it and COntinc your cattle right
in the barI. give them all OF the
corn silagc that they will clean up
also all the roughness that they
want, about 3 pounds of cotton
seed meal per 1000 pounds live
weight of cattle per head per day
and, if YOU want to, YOU may add
some broken ear corn, then be
sure to keep them we'll bcddcd
and allow at least so or 90 square
feet of room for each steer and
keep your barn well ventilated.
Mr.. Good is full of his subject
and can give us figures to prove
his statements. 1t is not guess
work or hcarsay with him and ev-
cry farmer would do we'll to get
acquainted with him and read his
bulletins which the Experiment
Station will mail YOU free of
charge if YOU write them.
The next speaker was Mr..
Cooper. director of the Expert
ment Station. Mr.. Cooper said
that he had come over to visit his
friend. Thomas II. Collins, and to
get acquainted with some of the
farmers of Madison county and
not to make a speech, but that
Mr.. lett had not only insisted on
his making speech but had Chos-
EN- his subject for him and that
he hoped that the audience would
not Judge him too harshly. Mr..
Coopers subject was "Thc Ex
pertinent Station and its Relation
to the Farmer" Before Mr.. Coop
ar began his talk. Mr.. Jett asked
that every man present who had
ever visited the Experiment Sta
ton and knew about what it was
doing. would stand up. Sixteen
men stood up. Mr.. Cooper said
hat there were in Kentucky
about $4,000 farms and that the
Station cost the tax
PAYERS Of the state only II cents
per farm on the average and that
this amount had been saved the
farmers many, many times over
IN several different things. Take
he seeds which are sold in the
state. all had to be sold under a
guarantee OF purity and germin-
ltiOn. and all that a farmer had
to dO was to send a sample OF any
seed to the Station and that they
would test them out free of
,har&e and return a report to the
farmer ard if they did not come
~ Il guarantee would help get
lim his money !'acl; or prosecute
he dealer; then there is I; law
-equiring all commercial feeds to
,e tagged and q give the analysis
II the tags a;,d that tn, anne
applied to fertilizers and farmers
should always send samples of
hese different things to the Sta
ion to have them tested out and
zee whether they were getting
what they paid for. |
He told what they were doing
o control diseases of live stock,
o eradicate insect pests, and doz-
ms of other things, all for the
benefit of the citizens of the
He said that the
Experiment Station belonged to .
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