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Vol. XXXI No. 22, . . ; SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1916. $1 a Year, 5c a Copy Tiiriefy Farm Suggestions By TA1T HUTLER pounds; nor should any- hog man guess gilts weighing 145 pounds at 240 pounds. The true" explanation is that some men have formed the bad habit of over-estimating the good qualities of anything they are trying to sell." : There is no excuse for any mis- . take about the weight of "art animal. ,,. eligible to registration. In, other words, an animal is not eligible to registration until its sire and - dam Weight is; a measurable quality and haves been registered. In founding scales are to be found everywhere, any pure-bred registry, of course, Of course, : animals will shrink in foundation animals must be accept- height in shipping, but a 550-pound ed, and in some cases animals of calf will not shrink to 343 pounds, nor a certain number of crosses were will a 2,500-pound pair of mares bushel (60 pounds) of cowpeas and one bushel (56 pounds) of corn: Cowpeas - Cora bn.6fllb- 1 bu,58Ibs. Digestible Protein ... 11.64 lbs. 4.29 lbs. " Carbohydrate 82.70 ' SMI " Fat. . m M " 2JK " 44.00 " 4Mi Velvet Bean the King of Summer SoO Builders ; V '," FOR soil building the velvet, bean is the king of Southern summer legumes. Much is written about the early maturing varieties but these do not make ntdny v s"" : rMrr W nnw r wU mPii .cL shrink to 1.960 founds, and certainly tSl &fW. Wm not shrink to i frozen from' the air, - lstration unless sire and dam are both pounds. ... The'chfef value of velvet beans is registered. . ' In such cases the seller is wholly at for soil building and-for grazing and,, When one desires to register an fault, and he is morally bound to i uto hc aims T helieve the animal he should write to the secre- make the purchaser whole. In case , when these are ine i uciicvc uic . - Al .... . . i . ,. . . . . Id tried varieties which make a tre- tarv the g&ty association of the of a difference of opinion about the mendous growth but niay not mature breed t0 which the animal belongs, quality or value of an animal, the seed except in the lower third,' or at For: hese registry associations and seller and buyer should share equally most the lower half of the Cotton tbe postoffice address of the secre- any risks which are: always involved Belt are most valuable; " taries, see page 12, February 12, 1916, when animals are ordered by mail;. ' , ;-. -vv;--; -- ; ; issue of The Progressive Farmer, our but in the case of a definite measura- n latest Reference Special. If our read- ble quantity like weight, there is no Feeding Value of Cowpeas Compared ers would keep this single issue of chance for a difference of opinion for With Corn The Progressive Farmer and refer to the question is one of fact. When the . ... , it, it would answer a large number of shipper so far overstates the weight A READER wishes to know the qUestion& abo,ut which they write, of an animal that there is no reason value of a bushel of cowpeas for In so far a& we know, there is : able ground for assuming - that the feeding when corn sells for $1. a no restriction placed on inbreeding difference is due to shrink ' in ship bushel?" . s by the Registry associations. Inbred "ping, then he must in justice bear all As we have often stated, .feeds so animals my be registered, if sire and the expend and inconvenience of sat-, unlike each othertannot be compared registered and tht pedigree isfying the purchaser, pay all costs satisfactorily. The following table . .& esUblished aGCOrding to the rules of. transporting the animal both ways Miuws mi: uigwuun muimuho u of the Association . it it is returnee. 1 There is no registry association -- - - - : . for recording the pedigrees of any- THE STOCK LAW QUESTION pure-bred poultry so far as we. can ... . ... . ascertain.; Of course, somebreeders Tfcw Are AchranUget and Ditad keep the pedigre.es of their birds and vantaget, But the Advantage. Far by means, of trap nests records of egg Qej-fe the Inconvenience, production are obtained and kept, but , ' there is no recording of the pedigrees A READER says that the, question of poultry as with cattle, horses, ofa "stock law is up m tu coun hogs etc, ty, to be. voted an soon, and he wishes . - ' ' us to give the advantages and disad- WEIGHTS 0FANMAI5 SOLD 'Iff ! doubts if such a law will be an ad van - Tfee SelUf It Morally Beuad t Mate tage to his section He. lives in the Geod AU Statemeata in Regard to "hills," but jher are; swamps both Wishtf east aod west of, this ridge, or hilly "CHOULD the seller of livestock be land. To the west there is good graz O held strictlv to the accuracy of his ing and large numbers of cattle go to . . . . V ; -r .' . f . . 1. !.- r ' a bushel, then when corn is isrortb $1 statements regarding the weight of mis , sccuon iQr grazing uva 45 a bushel cowpeas would be worth animals priced or described? ; spring, opeos. about $1.22H a bushel The following cases have recently ' The disadvantages of a law which It is probable that these relative come to our notice: - protects the crops from livestock and values are not far from right, and A bull calf described as weighing requires the stock to be controlled yet, neither feed being satisfactory 550 pounds or more was shipped two are as we see them about as follows: when used alone, ao comparison is months later and weighed 343 pounds. Fences must be built around suffi- satisfactory. The relative values of A pair of mares were described as cient grazing lands or pastures made these feeds will also depend' largely together weighing. 2,500 pounds, and and fenced for supporting pr grazmg on the other feeds used with them. It when they- reached their destination the livestock kept. Owing to the na- " also certain that when used to- they weighed only 1,960 pounds. rural disinclination of some men to gether, say one pound of cowpeas to A pair of gilts were described as work, they refuse to make pastures two pounds of corn, the value of each weighing 240 pounds each, and when and consequently less stock is kept, win De mnrh 03 in u fH k:.t 4efi-iirt niv wiMorhfd ior a ume ai leasi. - 145 pounds each. Another disaavantage ouen citeo is We could continue these illustra- that poor people who own no land tions almost indefinitely from our ex- and are unable or Unwilling to rent perience, but these three cases will pastures are deprived or the advan serve for our purposes of illustration, tages of keeping cows and hogs. 1 hold that there is no excuse for We can think of no other disadvan such mistakes. If the weight of an tages resulting from the stock law animal is stated there are just two enforcement. , f rnnrsM to -rmrsue. One isto The, advantages, or some of the,m, Present prices, it will nrnbMv MV mU pcftmato n Inw that it is may "be stated as follows : to eed them to hogs in combination -certain to be within the limit, and the The livestock are under control or with corn regardless of the price of other is to weigh the animal and give their range so restricted that their com, unless .the hogs -have a .good-exact weight. breeding, feeding care and health pasture or some other source of pro- In the case of the two mares,' which may be looked : after. v Disease xan fell short 540 pounds of the described never De contronea wnne nvesiocK or weight, the shipper stated they were the carriers of disease run. at large, very gaunt when received by the pur- Hog cholera, cattle ticks and other rticr nd wmild snon retrain their diseases and carriers of disease can weight. It is bad enough to over- only be avoided or destroyed when Giving- a value of three cents a pound for digestible protein, one cent a pound for digestible carbohydrates, and 2.25 cents a pound for digestible fat, a bushel (60 pounds) of cowpeas would be worth 69.10 cents and a bushel (56 pounds) of corn would be worth 56.35 cents. ' If cowpeas are worth 6SLlft cents a bushel when corn is worth 56.35 cents alone or if used . in combination with any feed which docs not properly balance the nutritive ratio.; - At the present low price for cow peas and with corn at $1, it will prob ably pay much better to feed a mix ture of cowpeas and corn rather than 'corn alone. ln tact, with cowoeas sellinsr for gumes and othersoil-improving and cover crons with - crnth ."rf f K . p v-... pense of fencing the cultivated lands. v. . It is true that every field should be fenced but if the owner does, not. want to fence his land in order to profit from the grazing furnished to his own livestock, he certainly should not be compelled to fence in order to keep his neighbors stock off hisT crops. If the cultivated lands are so large in area that their fencing costs more than the pasturage of the ranges is , worth then even as a community pro position it is not profitable to main tain a free. range. In case the num bers, of animals grazed and the free range is large and the cultivated areas small,, it will be cheaper to fence the pastures than the cultivated fields, but the best arguments in favor of stock law' are not related to the cost of fencing. The more important arguments in favor of controlling the livestock are: 1. Well bred livestock or the im provement of the Quality of our ani mals is impracticable when all live stock run at large. 2. Disease cannot be controlled and cholera, ticks, etc., are much more prevalent. 3. The man who owns, the land is able to get the use of it, if he wishes to fence, but if he does not wish to fence it, he can still get the benefit of , ownership through the growth of young timber in case of cut-over lands. 4. For. a man to get something that does not belong to hinv for one tp get something for nothing, has a bad moral effect : In free range sec tions the farmers as well as the live stock are usually poor, and little pro gress is made v 5. Probably the hest evidence of the advantages. of the stock law is that practically all sections which have adopted it could not by any sort of means be induced to go back to the old free range conditions. It is marvelous the opposition to this progressive step when one con siders how little can be truthfully said against it. It is not unusual for the most bitter quarrels to occur among neighbors over this question and yet not one per cent of the sup posed objection exist or materialize which the opponents of livestock con trol argue are certain to result For a year or two a few less live stock will be kept by the shiftless and stubborn, who think they cannot cr will not make fences and pastures, but in a year or two more and better animals will be kept The stock taw is in force in practically all pro gressive agricultural- sections and anything like a profitable or exten sive livestock industry is practically impossible and does not exist, so far as we know, where the livestock are not controlled wm can be furnished cheaper than in me cowpeas. - Registering Livestock READER asks: I. "Can a grade of estimate the weight of animals when livestock arc controlled by the. en- any breed be registered? 2. Can describing them, but it is adding in- forcement of a stock law. Better liye- T. i ed aniniaI be registered? 3. suit to injury to try to tell a man who stock are kept, because they receive 1S there, a nUn.. ; j . . i:-rAC.0tr Uof KpftM pari and mcre feed and eorise- ere a nonltnx ta KMtf livActnpt that better care and more feed and corise it sn tvlit l" j . . 1 i .r 11 .:ir C4A ntit v nallv vie a mnrf nrnfif.'x- "uat wtcu or ore cus are a pair oi &mau mares .wiinvsv. h-"v 7 y ,-v r tered?" - . .i c..t. ' vn1ini. rfnt W feed obtained from the pauncis m snipping. ou-u x vAjiM : . : Tv - reflection on tne in- lanus oi uiucrs anw i wni ijic uwu- XMo ers ot tne stocK nave no ngnv . wnen OOD fields "of oats are scarce in VJ the southern part of the Missis sippi valley this year. The season has been unfavorable, but the most por terit factors in bringing about the failure are poor soils and late seed ing. Every year adds to the accumu lation of proof that the late seeding of oats is one of the chief causes of our low yields, not to say complete failures, through winter-killing. Our , soils are generally not in a highly productive condition at best but those soils of fair average fertility ,will produce fair crops of oats almost every year if they are sowed in good season. registered 1. elia'Ki n ammal not' pure-bred is not tion is simply a 1 matt i! reg.istrtiov No grade, no telligence of the ler how high or how manv cross- horseman shouk one makinz it. w cruise a rair of livestock is controlled it is possible to ts ot Dun Zt. !t-i 1 Cin nnm1c of O trrnw nats. wheat, winter-crowinc le- - uiuuu ii niay tuniain, is mares weignius iw pwuuuj o- "-) o...0 According to lies Aanales, a French soJ flter writes tome, as follows: Tfru ak nw if I meed eoeks. I am sttll weartn? tke pair yo Bat me laat July. I have not seen them since, but I presume they, are ln a bad shape."
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