The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06
Dates for Canning Crops School are
Set for February 10 to 20.

Gamers and growers of canning
crops from all sections of the State
are expected to attend the annual
Canning Crops School, to be held at
the University of Maryland, Febru-
airy Is to 20.
According to F. w. Geise, professor
of vegetable culture at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, a long list of in
teresting speakers has been arranged.
The meetings will be held in the Agri-
cultural building and will start each
day at 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. Tuesday
evening there will be get-to-gether
dinner at which President R. A. Pear
son of the University of Maryland,
will say few words to the visiting
Gamers and field men. H. P. Hall,
president of the Tri-State Packers
association and DR.. H. ]. Patterson,
director of the University of Mary
land Experiment Station, will also
speak at this time.
The meetings will open Tuesday
morning with an address of well
come by DR.. T. B. Symons, director
of the University Extension service.
Following DR.. Symons, individuals
from the University and State will
talk on the problems of grower and
Gamer. The meetings will continue
through Wednesday and Thursday.
In addition to the discussion groups
there will be interesting exhibits of
the latest spraying and busting out
fits, especially those adapted for the
Mexican Bean Beetle control work.
A number of insecticide manufactur-
ers and dealers will also show their
products. Much of the conference
will be taken up with talks on the
Mexican Bean Beetle.
Silage is Cheapest Roughage for the
Cows
Feeding silage to Western beef
calves at the University of Illinois
last winter saved $1.70 hundred in
the cost of grain. The lot to which
silage was fed put on fat at cost
of $3.50 a hundred. A similar lot
fed mixed hay in place of silage
gained at cost of $1,000 a hundred
over period of 1853 days.
Livestock specialists at the Illinois
Station say that feeders who turned
away from silage few years ago
when they changed over from heavy
cattle to calves are now filling their
silos again. 1t was tendency among
many farmers at first to feed too
much silage to calves. This over
feeding of roughage resulted in rapid
growth but slow fattening. Since
that time, experiments have shown
that the amount of silage fed to beef
calves should be limited.
Calves fed at Illinois University
were given eight pounds of silage per
day and two pounds of alfalfa hay in
addition to their grain ration. AS a
result, they gained 21a pounds day
for seven months and sold within a
half dollar of the top of the market.
No other ration has given comparable
results with calves at the experiment
station. The Herd Improvement rec
ords showed that cows that were fed
silage, the cost of producing milk was
reduced 35 to 81 cents per 100 pounds.
What About the Dairy Situation
The dairy situation is causing lot
of excitement and anxiety among the
dairymen. 1t seems to me if all dairy
men would get busy and Gull the
"boarder" cows from their herds they
would make more money, first by re-
ceiving larger income per dollar in
vested. Second, the marketing of the
low producing cows would lower milk
production thereby relieving the milk
and cream situation.
The following was taken from a
radio talk given by C. V. Whalin, on
January 81, 1880.
"The dairy industry apparently has
reached a point in the production
cycle where further immediate expan-
sion is likely to react unfavorably on
prices and may bring serious loss to
producers.
"Dairymen face a period of re-
adjustment The number of milk cows
was increased per cent in 1929. The
number of heifers, 6 per cent greater
than year ago, is sufficient to cause
still further increases in cow numbers
in 1880. While the underlying situa-
ton is not so bad as would appear
from current butter prices, the dura-
ton of the period of readjustment will
depend partly on the promptness with
which producers adjust their methods
to meet the situation, by close GULL
ing out of their old or producing
COWS, and by either marketing a lar
ger quantity of milk in the form of
veal or, in the beef section, allowing
more calves to run with the cows"
Paul Kern, Hungery's insomnia