a of Corn Silage Conclusively Proven That Product in Ration Makes Big Saving. Stockkeepers must know the cost of their feeds In order to determine the best and most economical rations. For this reason It {8 necessary to In- vestigate the cost of making silage, writes A. L. Haecker In the Iowa Homestead. The Missouri Agricul tural college last year showed a cost of $5.90 per ton for corn silage. They based this on the bushel yleld, credit- ing the corn with 94 cents per bushel and charging actual costs which were | liberal all items and above the | average now pald, During the past 25 years many of | our experiment stations have pub- | lished figures on of producing silage, but conditions have radi: cally changed figures are of little value at the present time, | It is hoped that new this | subject may be secured this year and | that special will be taken to give data produced on average farms, on Cost as in these COStSs, figures on care Ways of Figuring. THere are two principal ways of figuring cost. One is based on the | ¥leld of corn, which is the most com- | mon, and, I believe, the least reliable; | the other is based on land rental and actual cost of growing and harvesting | the crop. Thirty per cent of last year's corn that went into the silo would not have made marketable | grain, due to the fact that It lacked maturity. Frequently a field of corn at tasseling time is so damaged by hot winds that the silk is dried or burned and the corn will fall to ear. | Such a crop will still make silage, though it is a total failure as a grain crop. Where the basis is made on | land rental and all costs, a more ac- | curate accounting can be made. Under present-day conditions it 8 | gafe to conclude that silage can be | made, where all costs are considered, for from $5 to $6 per ton. The fol. | lowing be to de- | termine of silage under | good farm conditions: When butter fat is selling for 45 cents per pound, | corn silage will bring the dairy farmer | £10 per ton; and when fat steers are | selling for to per welght, corn silage is worth from $7 to 38 per ton. Then a farmer with a silo and a fair yield of crop can re- | figures used the may worth £0 £10 hundred of $70 £80 when fed to silage to acre, fed and 3100 when good dgiry COWS, Makes Big Saving. It has been conclusively proven that silage In the ration saving of considerable money. With dairy | animals, the feeding of silage saves | from 8 to 135 cents on the cost of pro- ducing a pound of butter and from | 80 to 50 on producing 100 pounds of milk. For beef production or fattening of animals, the saving produced by silage is about $1 per 100 pounds gain. When we consider the growing of young stock, the feed. ing of dry cows and heifers, the win- | tering of work horses and mules, the silo becomes a necessity on the stock farm. an {0 steers, makes a cents Imported Parasites of Corn Borer Aid Control A number of parasites of the corn | borer have been imported from Eu- rope and liberated in this country In | recent years to ald In control of this pest of the corn crop. Four different | inds of these parasites have been | recovered lately In York, Ohlo, | and New England, showing they are becoming established here. Winter shipments of parasites from France to the corn-borer laboratory at Ar lington, Mass, have included nearly 85,000 of one species and about 13,000 of another, as well as 855,000 host | larvae from which four other specles of parasites will be reared. New Manure helps pastures as much as it does any other crop. LJ * * Shallow cultivation is best for row crops, as it does not injure their roots so much as deep stirring - . . Get revenge on the gopher for the meanness he has dome in the alfalfa fields by a poisoning campaign after the first hay crop is off, . * » Deep planting of beans gives slow germination, dwarfed and weakened plants, and a poor stand. One to two inches is generally deep enough. * * 0 A polson bait made of 20 pounds of bran, one pound of paris green or white arsenic, and two quarts of cheap molasses is recommended for control of cutworms, * -. * Most successful hog growers pro- vide good pasture for thelr porkers. They have found that grass and legumes put meat on pigs profitably. Pastures are more sanitary, too, than dirty old plgpens, » * » Wheat is an Industry and the wheat grower needs to adopt the Industrial ist's long-time view of his business. That Is why he’s lining up with the five-year program for the wheat belt advanced by farm and commercial or- ganizations and the Karsas State Agricultural college. Kill Cabbage Worm plied in Dust Form. of Agriculture.) The common cabbage worm, bage and related crops, Is or calcium arsenate, says the United States Department of Agriculture In Common Cabbage Worm and Its Con trol.” This pest {8 a wvelvety-green caterpillar about one and one-quarter inches In and the larva of a white butterfly known to farmers. The worm would cause much heavier according to the bulletin, number of the most Important tain wasp-like parasit winged the Immature within body length, is losses, but for a natural enemies, four forms of of the es or flies, feed caterpillar Early In the the season the worm at the outer leaves as they form, frequently feed heads, which for food. “bud” young plant, thus preventing ment of the head. Arsenle poisons may dust form rather than mixing the powder with air-slaked lime, land plaster, dusting sulphur or cheap, light, finely verized the eabbage leaves. Although are more easily and quickly applied than sprays, they do not always dis- tribute the poison as less the dusting Is are wet, they are rendered unfit Some- cuts out the be applied In done when do not stick as Farmers’ Bulletin 1461.F, contain ing a description of the common cab- information relative to control sary materials and equipn measures, neces- went, may be free, while the supply lasts, irtiment of from the United States Dep D.C Agriculture, Washington, for Success With Fowls The pou istry is facing the of using more =a tev Ind try Indu probl C inle iples em if poultry is to ’ 1) Tuber roun tapeworm lary white diarrhea losses to the 1 yaltry Industry logis is most satisfactorily by testing the flock controlled thee thos In a flock It is best to dispose and putting them on ing the premises case Infection in of the entire flock healthy buy t rds, fresh ground. one disease In which at tention to the sanitation is an ex- important factor In its con b trol. Tapeworms require an Intermediate and liate host to complete thelr the the host them. Tapeworms by de of flies straw plles and life cycle common fly Is interm to three of effectively the manure piles, old are most ombated stroying in 1 breeding pl ACER vegetable Roundworm eggs pass droppings to be picked birds, ground and plowing up is the best means of preventing Infes out with the up by other hanging the chickens to new the old ground Bacillary white diarrhea Is most ef. controlled by blood the older chickens to see which birds are Infected. By eliminating the re- actors Infection ls not passed hy way testing the droppings. Thus we see that the diseases which are causing our poultry losses may be or are being combated by the use of proper sanitary and pre. ventive measures, Also chickens which are in a thrifty condition are much less susceptible to some of the bacterial diseases of poultry which are capable of causing great losses. Best Time to Cut Most greatest The best time to cut most grasses is as soon as they are well headed, says the United States Department of Agriculture. The millets and son grass should be cut as soon as the heads begin to show from the root, but It Is best for winter grains stage. Legumes like soy beans, In which the seed Is an most quickly and with the least ex- posure to sun and alr. making It less attractive when placed on th arket and also less palatable and less digestible, Select Best Boar Type Anyone Intending to buy a boar to sire the next spring pig crop will be well repald for care In selecting him. Buy a boar that will sire pigs with the necessary constitution and feed- ing ability to make a good start to- ward 200-pound market hogs An un- dersized, scrawny boar cannot be ex- pected to sire vigorous pigs. The boar should be large for his age, wide and deep, have plenty of bone, and stand on straight legs with strong feet and pasterna 5 fr G Men, Too, Seek Beauly Dr. D. 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