Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-25
LIVESTOCK ALONE
|. BASIS PROSPERITY
IN The EAST
Problem N. E. Feeding
Itself Discussed by
Philip R. Park
1923 Year Book and Almanac
Just Issued by Park & Pol
lard Co. Attracting Wide
spread Interest and Atten-
p, ton Book Distributed
Among 4 Million Readers

Lining Of the soil, rotation of
crops, corn planted on clover sod.
nitrogen, vitamines and minerals.
poultry keeping. Dairying and profit
able Beef-raising in the East, are
among the many subjects intelll-
! gently discussed and presented in the
1923 number of the Lay or Bust"
Year Book and Almanac.
This book is being distributed to
poultry and catt}emen in the New
| England and Atlantic states by the
! Park & Pollard Company of Boston
and Buffalo.
States can boast of four million
readers. but Philip r. Park (Chair-
man of Live Stock Division of the
| State Chamber of Commerce). its
editor, has been for fifteen years on
intimate terms with farmers. poul-
trymen and cattlemen in the East,
through the columns of his unique
publication.
i Born, bred and educated on New
England farm, Philip r. Park early
made /. study of wild and domestic
animals and fowl. His success with
prize winning poultry Immediately
attracted the attention of the coun-
try, for he originated the dry mash
system of feeding, which completely
revolutionized the poultry business
in the United States. Instead of 20
| to 100 eggs a year, the Park Il Pol
lard dry mash (now called Lay or
Bust) made hens shell out 200 to 800
cgcs Il year.
For years Mr.. Parks Company held
the government rights to the eNciu-
sive manufacture of dry mash.
Later the agricultural experiment
stations used this name to designate
a kind of mixed poultry feed made
up of ground ingredients; the words
so coming into general use. Lay
or Bust" is the trade name today
to guarantee to the poultry raiser
Parks originc. dry mash" The
formula has never been changed.
Nobody has ever seen a molecule
or an atom: still scientists tell us
that all matter is composed of them
and other divisions even smaller.
Nobody has ever seen Nitamines. but
chemists have proven their existence.
No one Of us could live sixty days
without them. Some foods have
them in abundance; in others they
arc absent. Life or Death. YOU live
only as YOU eat. The subject Of vita
mines and their importance in poul-
trv and live stock feeding are ably
| discussed in the Lay or Eust" al
manac.
Speaking in general, Mr.. Park
saws: TO make the most out of
your farming operations, sell much
.r9 buy less Produce everything
! that is practical to raise and con-
vert it into the most valuable forms
before it leaves the farm. Corn Is
a 1905 crop for the East. No crop
/ takes its place and no farmer can
reach his maximum yield at a mimi
mum cost till he has planted corn
on a clover sod. Some kind of clo-
yer can be raised il farmer lines
his SOIL and all soil east. of the Mis-
sissippi 1eeds lime. The clovers
bring nitrogen into the soil and at
! the same time produce crop laden
! with those recently discovered food
elements that spell health when
present and death when absent
viz. the yitamines. The health and
| thrift of your hens and young cattle
depend upon them, and will not
/ grow properly without them. no
matter how much grain you feed
! them. If Your milch cows cannot
get the vitamines. they cannot Put
them into the milk; and they must
be in the milk 20 raise strong babies
ana maintain tho health OF young
! and old people.
Lime spells clover. Glover spells
| vitamines and corn. Nitamines spell
/ growth and health to all farm focks
/ and prosperity to the owner. and
! strong, healthy families to all who
use the milk he produces.
The future will see Board of
/ Health requirements STIMULATING that
certain percentage of solid and but
| ter fat, and also that the rations on
which they are fed shall contain
/ liberal quantities of minerals and
I vitamines.
| AS conditions are today. poultry
! is the only crop on the average farm
| that can buy everything it eats and
! show a profit at the end of the year.
| At the present time only the most
| favorably located dairymen are able
| to figure a profit in their milking
game, whereas a properly managed
| farm flock of poultry. buying every
| thing they eat. will pay $500 to $500
! per head, making them the best
| payers on the. farm. Under these
conditions why not follow the sue
cesses and enlarge the part of your
| farm undertaking that shows a
| money profit, and at the same time
keep the boy on the farm?
Live stock is the salvation of
Eastern agriculture. and poultry is
| by long odds the most profitable of
anything on the farm. 1t is a quick
return money crop and will pay year
in and year out.
With ample supplies of corn grown
on the farm, with good beef calves
produced on the same farm, New
England can and should produce
better beef cheaper than the West
can hope to do.
The West has very wasteful meth
DDS Of beef production. The calves