The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-10
FARMERS OF WEBSTER
TOLD OF DISCOVERY
OF FEEDING MIXTURE

WEBSTER, Ind, Nov. 10.-Expla-
nation OF new discovery of the.
Purdue experiment station, which IL
It had been made in the industrial
instead of the agricultural world,
would have made fortune for its dis
coyerer, was given to the farmers of
Webster township at meeting Thurs
day night, by Prof. ]. r. Wiley, OF
Purdue
The discovery refers to a method
of feeding hogs which does away with
the expensive tankage feed formerly
fed in connection with corn. For
years soy beans have been tried as
substitute, but without giving the
gains that may be obtained with
tankage. Experiments this year
proved that addition of mineral mix
ture with the soy beans would sup
ply the missing ingredient that would
make the beans equal to tankage.
This mineral mixture" said Prof.
Wiley, costing only one or two cents
a pound, will make sowbeans at $3.50
or less, equal in feeding value to %
per cent tankage, at $40 ton Fur
Jhermore, the beans can be produced
in quantity on any farm, whereas the
tankage is only available by purchase
and is limited in quantity"
Advantage of Mixture.
BY use of the mixture, bushel of
beans and 10 pounds of the mixture
will produce 100 pounds of pork, while
80 pounds of tankage are required
with seven bushelc of corn to make
the same gain. On clover pasture,
303 pounds of corn, rs pounds of
beans and eight pounds of the mix
ture will give the same gains as IS:
pounds of corn and 81 pounds of
tankage.
The mixture, as the speaker ex-
planned, is simply 10 pounds Of wood
ashes, 10 pounds of ordinary acid
phosphate, taken from any fertilizer
sack, and one pound of common salt
Finely ground limestone may be sub
stituted for the ashes.
Another feature of Prof, Wileys
talk was a strong appeal for raising
of larger filters. With more pigs far
rowed in litter and a large number
raised to market age, the cost PEI
mig will be greatly lessened, he snow
ed and thus a greater profit realized
Figuring in all feed used for. SOW and
pigs from breeding time till weaving
litters of more than seven pigs were
raised on SO pounds of feed per pig
at a cost of $1.3S; while litters OF sly
took 1872 pounds apiece at cost o.
S1.S1. and small filters averaging touI
pigs, required 277 pounds per pig
costing $2.7S.
How to Save Pigs
Careful feeding of the SOW before
narrowing, use of a balanced ration o.
corn and soy beans or corn, oats anc
barley, with a handful of tankage once
a day for at least month before Tar
rowing, clean, dry warm farroWlnt
quarters, and care of the pigs, keeping
them warm dry and clean for the hrs
month especially, will mean large
proportion of pigs saved. Brood SOW:
selected from prolific stock will far
row larger filters.
Bv careful observance of all require
ments, one man in the ton litter con
fest last year succeeded in raising II;
nigs from Il sows, said the speaker
with three filters near the ton marx
enc only 10 pounds under ton, ant
ore weighing 5000 pounds at ST.
months.
A business meeting OF the farmer
association decided before Prof. WI
lev's talk, to send township repre-
sentative to the state farm bureau cor
J vention at Indianapolis. Charles Wea
dick was chosen as delegate ana WI
liam Wilcoxen as alternate. expense
of the delegate will be paid by IN
township association.
Announcement of the annual enter
tainment and social meeting OF the al
sociation for the second THURSDAY !
December, was made by the Chairman
Mrs. Walter Beeson Is chairman OF IN
committee for that meeting. Count
Agent Dolan also called attention
the national farm bureau conventlo
at Chicago, the same week as the ln1e
national Livestock Exposition.