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Vol. XXIII. No. 24.
RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 23, 1908
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PURE BLOOD HOGS PAY BETTER THAN SCRUBS.
When you go to fill your smokehouse with meat you want an animal that shows you a big outside, a small inside, and plenty of
distance, between the two. Arid the hog that will pack this space full of the best meat in the shortest time at the biggest profit is the
hog you should raise in droves for your smokehouse and market. The farm papers, the experiment stations, the actual pork raisers,
agree that for such a purpose the pure blood hog will beat the scrub almost two to one. Take this extract, for instance, from a letter
just received from a progressive farrrier: "I selected a good pure blood and bought an extra good scrub, both males, both farrowed
the same day in February. They were treated alike and fed alike, all they would eat, until twelve months and five days old, when
their gross weights were : the scrub 285 pounds ; the pure blood 505 pounds."
SAVE BOTH HALVES OF YOUR CORN CROP.
Cut the Crop at the Right Time and Do Not Let the Weather Injure it Latei
.. "Pulling Fodder" Doesn't Pay.
-The Practice of
When corn is grown .for the grain it is best not!
to cut fodder till the kernels have become well
dented and hard and the husks have become part
ly or entirely dry.
The time of cutting is much more important
than is generally supposed. From the time the
corn reaches the condition described, there is or
dinarily a period of approximately ten to fourteen
days in which the stover has high feeding value
and the production of grain per acre is not mate
rially decreased by the cutting. I believe the
matter of cutting at the proper time is so import
ant, that some cut their corn at a wrong time and
do not get paid for their trouble. When cut dur
ing the period mentioned above, stover has ap
proximately the same value as timothy hay and
is worth as much per ' ton, provided the stover is
properly cared for after cutting. If. the cutting
is delayed till the grain is mature enough to husk
and crib, or if the stover is left standing in small
shocks in the field till spring, the feeding value
is scarcely worth the expense of feeding it and re
turning the stalks to the land.
Some of our Southern friends easily make the
error of trying to follow the advice given in bul
letins or agricultural papers that are not suited
to Southern conditions, getting into trouble and
then saying that it does not pay to cut corn.
Such literature as that usually says for dry clim
ates each shock should contain from fourteen to
eighteen hills of stalk. That is on the supposi
tion that there will be two or three stalks in each
hill, which is misleading since Southern farmers
do not usually plant their corn that way. That
same class of literature commonly says in local
ities having wet, rainy and warm autumns it is
necessary to make shocks as small as eight or ten
hills square. In such small shocks nearly all the
stalks are exposed and cure quickly. The fodder
should remain in such small shocks only long
enough for it to become well cured. If allowed
to remain in small shocks, rains will leach from
the fodder the soluble and most palatable and
nutritious food elements, making the - stover dry,
brittle, tasteless, of little feeding value. So, as
soon as the stalks are cured, husk the corn and
place the stover in large shocks, or the fodder
(stalks with the ears on them) should be hauled
under shelter where it will be kept dry. If the
stalks and ears are fed together judiciously, it
may not pay to husk out all the corn.
Every reader who has not had experience with
feeding stover is advised to re-read those parts
of this article that relate to the time of cutting
and to keeping the fodder in good condition. Ap
proximately one-half of the feeding value of the
corn crop is in the husks, leaves and stalks that
is, outside of the ears. The problem, is how to
manage that half so that it is not lost That half
is lost, I believe, ninety-nine times in a hundred
on Southern farms, unless live stock are allowed
to run in the corn fields. When stock are allow
ed to run in the fields, the stover is usually
weathered so much before it is eaten, that the
feeding value is very low. The common method
of pulling the leaves from corn stalks is a wide
spread practice that lose money every time.
,CHAS. M. SCHERER.
WHAT YOU WILI FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
- PAPER.
Page.
Against the Williamson Plan 5
Curing Peavine Hay in Rolls 3
Canning Fruits in the Farm Kitchen. . . , . . . 7
Changing the Dairy Herd to a Beef Type,
A. L. French 10
Demonstration Farm for Every County, L. G.
'Prentice . . . ; . . 2;
Fall Potatoes Pasture Grasses Clovers. ... 9
Fruit Trees in Pasture 15
Farmers' Institutes for the Week. .... . . . . . . 12
Farmers' Alliance Letters 4
How to Succeed With Pure-Bred Hogs, Chas
M. Scherer . . . . . .... . . n
Notes of Passage Across the Atlantic, Clarence
H. Poe . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . g
Plant Peas Early and Late, H. L. McKnight. . 3
Question Box for Farmers' Institutes . . . .... " 16
Rural Letter Carriers' Items . . ..... ... . ... 13
Save Both Halves of Your Corn Crop ..... . . . 1
The Women's Institutes. ......... . .... . . 7
The Truth About Sub-soiling, Deep Plowing,
and Scrubs " 9
When Deep Plowing is a Necessity, P. H. Man-
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