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-Thursday, June 6, .1907.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The Big Reason for the Silo.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Best lubricant for axles in the
world long wearing and very ad-
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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.
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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
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what counts. AH in all; considering dollar-for-dollar value, a DE
LAVAL machine gives from five to ten times more true separator
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not mere paper claims, but facts, the proof of which can be had
ior tne asking.
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Randolph Canal Sib.
CHICAGO
1218 Filbert Street
PHILADELPHIA
8 ft 1 1 Orumm 8t.
SAN FRANCISCO
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"BiAKESLEE" GASOLINE ENGINE
i Lots of woodLittle
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on Engines, Saws and Mills i
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Goods carried in Btoct, prompt '
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