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DAIRY AND SILO SPECIAL - r i I I II - .. - r . ; n I M"! fT cfc W V "I -s - - : ft : . . ... I II rv T.I I I II I I II S I V I L II I --. I1- ,". ; I I -"" v tm m m & x r m . m .. . m jt-j a- & v km m m m m m m . - w m m ST SSS-- Carolinas.Vir ov Georgia. arid Horida. cUi. FOUNDED 188V RALEIGH, N.C Vol. XXXI. No. 15. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916. $1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy Cow, "Sow and Jtev ' .riHE dairy, farmer has a steady income, quick 0 li-X I ieiurnson nis mvesimeni, ana, usually, ncn v land. ' jf or . the amount of feed consumed, the cow gives a greater return in human food than any animal kept on the farm. Moreover, she will utilize what would otherwise be waste materials, as well as the pasturage of otherwise waste lands, converting them into one of the best and cheapest of human foods. In doing this, she returns ta'.v.'.w:v..vvd).v Silo: a- Winning Combination Then logically comes the cream separator, a ma chine that no farmer with four or five cows and who sells butter and cream can afford to be without. Study of the diagrams on another page of this issue shows that in a very little while a separator will pay for, itself in the butter fat saved. With the dairy herd naturally goes a herd of good hogs to convert into pork the wastes that the cows cannot utilize. 1 x.tr, " AS A MEANS OR PROVIDING CHEAP WINTER FEED, THE SILO IS UNEXCELLED. to the land in the manure much the larger part of the plant food value of the feeds she consumes. . Bear in mind that we do not recommend the business of dairying as a cure-all for bur agricultural ills; but we do hold that for the man who appreciates some ready cash coming in every day in the year; for the man who would break away from all-cotton or from any one-crop system ; or tor the man who would have his lands grow richer year by year, while his commercial fer tilizef bills grow smaller, for any of these the dairy cow, rightly handled, fills the bilk We don't suggest dairying exclusively, at least not in the beginning, nor do we be lieve it safe to plunge info the business with out first giving some thought and study to it. Remember that dairying ' offers very substantial rewards to the man who is will ing to mix brains with it, but for the man who is unwilling to study and learn it is a good business to stay out of. If you have two or three CoWs now and are making; them Pay. get two or three more. Get good ones; but this does hot necessarily mean high - priced pure-breds; Good grade cows, v carefully, breeding up their off-, spring, can in a few-years contribute to the making ; of a money-making herd ; DON'T FAIL TO READ ree Country People Should Set Their Own Standards . . . . The Silo-Is It Succeeding in the South? "Get Up Early and Use Your Brains" . Marketing Butter by Parcel Post . $813 From Fourteen Cows . . . . Cow and Sow Mean a Rich Country t . , How Plants Grow: Work of Roots, Stems and Leaves . Silage Crops for Southern Farmers . . 13 the Cooperative Cow-testing Association 1 4 Feeding Value of Silage ...... 16 Yankees Make Machinery Do the Work 18 Ask Candidates Where They Stand . : . 19 Stop Extravagance in Public Buildings .19 What Lesiation-Farmers Want 1his Year : . . 19 "Standby the Parcel Post" . . . .A . 24 Pigs revel in skimmilk and buttermilk, and these feeds, with a small amount of grain, will enable us to put hogs on the market at a very low cost for productio.n. y ; Then when the herd has been enlarged to ten or a dozen or more, a silo should be installed. ; Nothing will provide cheaper and better suc culent winter feed, and it will also frequently prove of great value in tiding over periods of jshortage during, long summer drouths. Finally, there should and must come co operative neighborhood breeding and mark eting -associations, pure-bred bull clubs and cream routes, to. make the dairy business m.ost profitable, A good bull, the use of ; good grade or even scrub cows, and a care fully kept record of each cow's performance; will in a few years result in dairy cows of - real quality. Where cream is shipped, the es tablishment of cream routes regularly cover ed .by a cream collector will do much to de velop the industry. , Cow, sow and silo, here's a trinity we commend to you, Brother Farmer. They will make you independent of commercial fertilizers; they will fatten your soil and your pocketbook at the same time ; and they will make a better farmer of you. Try them. 4 5 6 6 6 7 8
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