THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
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DO YOUR
To Increase and
Conserve The
Nation's Food Supply
- All authorities agree that 50
of the feeding value of the-corn,
bean and pea crop is in the stalks
or vines. They also agree that
grinding feed saves from 10 to
25. Tests conducted by the
Michigan State Agricultural
College shows that, on an aver
age, cows fail to masticate
22.75" of whole corn; 12.06
of whole oats and 26.46 of
whole corn and oats. Tests
show that 9 less feed is re
quired for mules, when ground.
It is estimated that hogs waste
10 to 20 of whole corn.
Can you, in the face of these
facts, continue ' to waste food
products that are so badly
needed throughout the world?
President Wiisoo Says :
"The-supreme need of our own nation
and of the nations with which we are
cooperating is an abundance of supplies,
and especially foodstuffs. The import
ance of an adequate food supply, espe
cially for the present year, is superlative.
Without abundant food, alike for' the
armies and the peoples now at war, the
whole great enterprise upon which we '
have embarked .will break down and
fail. The world's food reserves are low.
. Not only during the present emergency
but for some time after peace: shall have
come both our own people and a large
proportion of the people of Europe must
rely upon the harvests in America. Up
on the farmers of this country, therefore,
in large measure, rests the fate' of the
war and the fate of the nations."
"I particularly appeal to the farmers
of the South to plant abundant food
stuffs as well as cotton. They can show
their patriotism in no better or more
convincing way than by resisting; th'
great temptation of the present price of
cotton and helping", helping upon" a great
scale, to feed the nation and the peoples
everywhere who are fighting for' their
liberties and for our own. t The variety
of their crops will be the visible measure
of their comprehension of their national
duty'
You don't teach your child: to throw away
bread crusts. Of course not! Then5 why save
velvet beans and cereals and waste the vines and
stalks? They're just as valuable as the crop they
bear when cut and ground with the
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a mill I designed- particularly for feed grinding require
ments of the Scn$th-a powerful, shear-cut, big capacity mill
that will cut and grindiarfything from stalks, vines and soft '
wet srains to- the: hardest , srains. and seeds. f
Double the Fng Value
of Your
Crops
Save the vines and stalks. Cut and grind them with
a Letz Dixie Mill. Why save half of any crop and waste
the other half? Velret Beans- with the' pod, corn with the schucks,
peanut and pea vine hay, straw,-kaffir corn, .alfalfa hay, cotton
seed, peanuts, sorghum, oats, wheat, rye or any cereal has far
greater feeding value when cut ahd ground and the Letz Dixie
Mill handles them all- easily and with great capacity.
Look at This Table
Compare the feeding value of shelled corn and corn and cob meal with
kaffir stover, cow pea, velvet heart and peanut hay.
Protein Carbodydrates Fat
Shell Corn 1&.50 71.70 5.49
Corn and Cob Meal &92 7B',2i 3.44
- Kaffir Fodder 13.10 62.55 4.15
Cow Pea Hay 14:56 64.84 2.72
Velvet Beans with Vines 14.54 64.90 . 2.75
Peanut Hay 11.99 63.99 7.98
Velvet Bans 16.60 55.20 5.30
You can't afford to feed high priced shell corn, oats, etc., when these
better feeds can be put in perfect feeding condition by using a Letz Dixie Mill.
Letz Dixie Mill is Made for
Southern Grinding .,
The only and right way to-reduce; roughage into- a fine meal is to first
cut it as finely as possible and then grind it. That's why the Letz DIXIE,
having a. durable simply constructed cutter, mounted on the- Letz Feed
Grinder is the only practical way to grind rotghage.
When grinding corn stalks, com with the "shucky velvet beans or any)
hay, place it on the DIXIE Peed-Tablei feed it into the heavy cutter head
which is surrounded by a steel screen that cuts it ad fine as cracked corn.
The-cut feed then falls into- the LETZ- SELRSHARPENINGy SILENT
RUNNING, Grinding Plate which will grind it tetany degree of fineness.
That is the kind of a feed mill! the South-needs -a powerful, shear
cue., large capacity mill' that will cot and grind anything grown in' the-South, You
can h clog, it or break it even by tuying. to grind ron o stone. The friction
safety clutch prevents, breakage.
The: LETZ- SELF-SHARPENING, . SlLENT.RUNNING, - SHEAR
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GOT grinding plates shear the grain orrouBhage atjr-eat speed without heating
toff gram or tuning tne plates, onnas any kina ot nay. gram or' seed dry or
wt-l'eyengrind cob-corn in, the milk stage-without ckging. Runs-smoothly
and' noiselessly. One set of Letz plates will grind thousands- of bushels- before '
wearingsout. - -
Get a Letz "Dixie'' nttw; Grind your own feed9 and- save 10 to 2Wn
onthecostof feeding your stock; "Doyour bit" td' help conserve and increase the Nation's food supply.
Sead'for ?tabg and VaSuaWe Free Book on Feeds and Feeding
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Velvet Beans
Dry or Green
-and all other forage plants, legumes
and cereals ground at great speed
with 'the Letz Dixie Mill.
Ttirtf Sizes -No. 77 for 3 h?p.
Not 88for 8 h. p. No. 22 for S. h.p.
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.v . ,r .wiiiiHirwuiiig rwin .nmraais is wortn many aoiiars to any man who raises
live stock of any kindrfor any purpose This book-tells what balanced rations are-how to balance-howto save money by grind
ing and mixing feeds right on the farm. Sentwjipon request while limited edition lasts. Send today for your free copy, and
the Letz Catalog which illustrates and describes ihe Dixic1, and other Letz Mills for every purpose;' Write today-flow;
LETZ MANUFACTURING CO., 304 East Road Crown Point, Indiana