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Reg'd U. S
Pat. Office
A Farm and Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia,
Georgia and Florida.
FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXVIII. No. 43.
SATURDAY, OCTOBL 25, 1913.
Weekly : $1 a Year.
Do You Put Your Knowledge of feeding into Practice?
AT this season the feeding of the livestock is likely to seem a more
important matter to the farmer than it appears in the spring or
summer, but we fear there are still many farmers who fail, at
any season, to attach to this work the importance it deserves, or to
give to it tne
DON'T WASTE THE CORN BY IMPROPER FEEDING AND DON'T LET THE RATS WASTE IT.
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thought it justly
demands. Even
now there are still
some farmers who
regard the feeding
of their livestock
merely as the por
tioning out of so
many ears of corn
a day to the horses
and the hogs, or
of so much meal
and hulls to the
cow. Most farm
ers, however, have
come to understand
that it is possible to
give a growing
animal all it can eat
and still have it
stunted because of
a lack of some ele
ment necessary to
its growth. Most
farmers know that
a cow cannot give
a full flow of milk
on a "wide" ration.
The majority of
farmers no longer
shy around "pro
tein," "carbohyd
rates," "nutritive ratio," and similar words when they meet them in
their reading. In a word, farmers generally have come to recognize
that there is a science of feeding and that the farmer can obtain suffi
cient knowledge of this science to apply it to the feeding of his own
livestock to their benefit and his own.
Most fanners, we say, have come to recognize these facts; but we
are afraid that most farmers still fail to attach enough importance to
these facts to put them into practice. It is to be expected that the
men who believe that to give the animal what it wants to eat is all
there is to feeding, should waste feeds and fail to get the most out of
their livestock, but it is not so easy to see why so many farmers who
know better than this still continue to feed their animals without any
serious attempt to balance rations or even to find out what would be
the cheapest and best ration for them The average farmer knows
that corn and corn fodder, or corn and grass hay, contain an excess of
carbohydrates and a deficiency of protein for a growing colt; yet how
many farmers arc there who, if they have a crib full of corn and no
legumes or other feeds rich in protein, will goto the trouble of selling
part of their corn or part of their hay and buy cottonseed meal, or
peavine hay talance up the ration? Not many, it must be admitted.
Yet, farmers" must come to realize that the correct feeding of their
animals is a matter of vital importance, and that the results of wrong
feeding are not to be escaped. If the stomachs of the work-stock are
overloaded with
roughness in the ef
fort to secure suf
ficient nutriment,
there will be less
than a full day's
plowing done in a
day. If the cows
are carried through
the winter on nub
bins and fodder, the
milk supply will be
short. If the pigs
are fed on corn
alone, they will not
make the growth
they should.
These are not
theories or matters
of guesswork, but
plain facts which
cannot be escaped.
The man who will
not learn how to
feed, must pay for
his ignorance, and
he need not trust in
some happy chance
to deliver him.
Careless feeding is
one of the great
wastes on the aver
age farm ; and if
farmers can only once come to understand how great and how inevit
able this loss is, we feel sure that they will take the necessary steps to
prevent most of it.
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FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
Co-operation in Florida A Story of Real Success . . t .. . . 17
Four North Carolina Leaders What Messrs. Shuford, Evans, .
Hobbs and Browne are Doing to Promote Better Farming ... . 5
How to Build the Barn Why the Floor Plan is the First Thing to
Consider 6
North Carolina's Agricultural Needs Reports of Two Important
Committees 8
Practical Business Co-operation No. 2 of Mr. Green's Series 18
Tender Meats Why It May Be Your Fault if the Meat is Tough . 10
What North Carolina Unions are Doing Reports From the
Secretaries 18
Why and How Farmers Must Co-operate A Notable Address
by an Irish Editor 12
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