r -Thursday, June 6, .1907. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. The Big Reason for the Silo. 4 4 - Jf, Preserves the Succulence and Palatability ...of Stock "Feeds, Qualities Which Count for So Much in Making Cheap and Rapid Gains. Messrs. Editors: A reader wishes to have our experience as to the com parative value of corn as feed for cattle when . prepared in different ways as corn meal, corn and cob meal, or when fed whole. We feed all corn in the ear husk ed, or on thefstalk unhusked, except what goes into the silo.- In our ex perience on bur farm there is little difference in the value of the"" cereal when prepared in differenrfrf ways and as the Creator has furnished each of our animals with an individual grind ing plant, we prefer that they should use these rather than that we should be to the expense of handling and grinding their feed for them. We have never found any feed that would put fat on an animal of the cow kind like corn cut and fed green, stalk and alii just when the green is well glazed about right to go into the shock. Next to this in our experi ence is soaked corn (the whole ears) soaked 24 hours". We feed it in this condition to both hogs and cat tle, and as hogs always follow feed ing, cattle no grain is lost. Succulent and Palatable Feeds Rapid Gains. for We must not lose sight of the succulence and palatability in con sidering stock foods. In our experi ence these have as much to do with rapid, cheap gains as does the bal anced ration. We want both and can have them as well as not in the South where we have such a .variety of legumes to draw from. We haven't purchased a dollar's worth of nitro gen during the past four years either in fertilizer or stock food and the condition of our crops and stock Is pretty "good evidence to us that we are in the right track. Do not con clude, however, that we do not feed proteids both to our stock and soil, because we do. We grow nitrogen rather than purchase it at 1 5c. per pound. - The Strong Reason for the Silo. If my readers want proof of the value of succulence in the animal ration just let them turn some of their thin cattle into a meadow of half-grown timothy grass (an unbal anced ration) , give them nothing else but plenty of water, and note the result of one month's grazing.. It is astonishing the way they will lay on flesh. This belief we have in the value of succulence is one" of the reasons why we urge go strongly the use of the silo for the preserving of winter food for cattle. Winter feed ers in the South can have, by the use of this nutritious, succulent food practically the same conditions as summer feeders in grass enjoy in the North and West, and haven't the fly pest to contend with during the feed ing period. . ' - No Forage Plant the Equal of Sor ghum and Peas. Another inquiry comes concerning oats and wheat hay. We. have never made hay of the wheat plant, but have used as forage all of the qat crops grown in recent years. Cut when the crain is in the dough stage, the oat plant makes a very fair qual ity of hay. We consider that where we have a rank growth of straw we receive more value from the crop utilized as hay than we do when al lowed to ripen seed, and we can har vest the crop as hay. at much less expense and risk than when secured in the usual way. We very much doubt, however, the wisdom of grow ing oats fbr hay in the South; hav ing as we do so many forage plants in this section, nearly all of which are of more value than the oat plant, some because of their nitrogen gath ering habit and others because of the much larger amount of feed they will produce per acre. The sorghum plant is of about the same value, pound for pound, as the oat plant, and will produce three to five times the amount of food per acre, with a less outlay for seed. We j don't consider there is; any compari son between the cowpea and the oat plant as forage producers, and when we combine sorghum and peas there is nothing,- in the writer's opinion, that is their equal as forage pro ducers. Grow Your Own Feeds. . - Harrow and t the writer are, I be lieveabout of the same opinion as regards the feeding of corn and cot tonseed meal. We believe, of course, that where corn may be sold and a large amount of feed purchased with the money, that it is the part of wis dom to do so. It' comes down at last more to the matter of location than of anything else. Harrow's corn costs him 62 cents and his cotton seed meal $27 per ton, while with us and .with hundreds of men remote from the railway, the cottonseed meal comes at $30 to $32 per ton, while there has never been a time during the last six years that we could not buy all the corn we wanted in the fall at 50 cents per bushel. Feed just which ever is the cheapest, but grow the feed. A. L. FRENCH. R. F. D. 2, Byrdville, Va. To South Carolina Farmers' Unions. All local Unions that have been or ganized and have not received' their charters will, please ,write to State Secretary Treasurer B. F. Earle, An derson, S.C., at once. He also wants twenty-five good organizers for dif ferent counties. Send your name and endorsement of your local Union and go to work. DC Mica Axle Grease Best lubricant for axles in the world long wearing and very ad- hesive. Makes a heavy load draw like a ; light one. Saves half the wear on wagon and team, and increases the ' earning capacity of your outfit. ; r.. Ask your dealer for Jiica Axle Grease. STANDARD OIL CO. Xaeerpwrated 1 TBn May IBaleo- which is In a class by Itself. it:np presses U"U"U market. Lars bale fastest and best for 8hiDDlni? - and market Largest Feed Croeninea. bom ud ttam powm, S8 itrUt and ilu. Many faatuad rv'-tt. ttaadardaf toavotid. Gat tha frea Eli oawJogna. I Calllwa Wwr Co., 2017HamphlrSt.. Qulwcy, III. Saw Mills ny. Adraatacaa ud niamiilai j-tT II ' 'sandar feb4wk ta-da. t 1 1 I i TiM KNI6HT Mfg. C J .a w 'tHEAPGSlH i BEST If" Cream Separators !"4 More truly is the best the cheapest in the purchase of . a cream separator than in the purchase of any other farm machine. The really cheap cream separator is the one which will perform your work in the most profitable and satisfactory manner, and last the Greatest number of years. Basing the value of the separator upon urability, without considering quality of work, if it lasts but two years it is worth only one-fifth oi what the separator is that lasts ten years, and one-tenth of what the one is that lasts twenty years. In addition, if it loses a large percentage of the cream and is dif ficult and expensive to operate its value is placed at even a still lower level. DE LAVAL cream separators are today admitted by every experienced user; to do as near perfect work as a cream sepa rator possibly can. Proof of this is seen in the fact that over 98 per cent, of the world's creameries and all the largest users employ the DE LAVAL exclusively. As to durability, the DE LAVAL has an average life of twenty years. The very best of other sepa rators do not last over eight or ten years at the very longest, and the poorest generally become worthless in from six months to two- . years. At the same time these machines are incapable of doing good work except under ideal conditions, such as cannot possibly be had in farm use, otherwise they lose a large percentage of the cream, are hard to operate, and in reality are but little better than gravity setting systems; It is therefore seen how little the first cost of a cream seoarator reallv means The cost m tne end is what counts. AH in all; considering dollar-for-dollar value, a DE LAVAL machine gives from five to ten times more true separator worth than anv other machine on the market today. These are not mere paper claims, but facts, the proof of which can be had ior tne asking. 4lW 4a. i The De Laval Separator Co. Randolph Canal Sib. CHICAGO 1218 Filbert Street PHILADELPHIA 8 ft 1 1 Orumm 8t. SAN FRANCISCO V General Offices: 'V ( 5. -i ' 74-CORTLANDT STREET i N EW YORK. 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