Pays to Feed Corn
in Form of Silage
Is More Assimilative and
Easier to Masticate
and Digest.
For many years our experiment sta-
tions have been publishing feeding re-
sults, nearly all of which have illus®
trated the value of feeding the corn
in the form of silage. As on an aver-
age, some 40 per cent of the nutritive
vale of the corn plant is in the stalks
and leaves, we are not surprised that
the silo method has proved the best,
We also know that ensiling retains the
largest amount of food nutrients and
holds it in the best possible condition
for feeding throughout the year.
A few have advocated that only the
stover ensiled. A test was made
at the Hlinois experiment station com:
paring stover silage with normal si
lage in the wintering of calves, The
result of this test showed the normal
silage produced nearly twice the galns
of the stover silage. The calves fed
stover silage gained 86.9 pounds each,
while those fed normal silage gained
154.5 pounds each. If the corn is lef
in the field until the ears are ready to
husk snep, the forage has been
somewhat damaged by weathering,
over-ripeness and frost that it
best to harvest the plant when it has
reached the proper stage for ensiling.
At this period the plant has obtained
its maximum amount of nutrition from
the soil and ‘s, what we term, mature
for the silo. If left in the field, some
of the nutriment turns to woody fiber
and cellulose. The stalk
becomes harder and less succulent ; the
leaves fall or wither, and if frozen
will quickly lose their food value hy
oxidation.
Corn which gone through the
ensiling process is not only more as-
similative, but is easier to masticate
and digest. For this reason corn in
the silo is In its best possible shape
for feeding live There would
be a loss rather than a gain by re
moving the corn before ensiling.
he
or
s0 is
indigestible
has
stock,
Waste in Trench Silo
Not Really Important
The question is often asked, “How
about the waste In using the trench
silo.” Experience with two silos of
this type at the Nebraska experiment
staton in 1930 indicates that the waste
is not as much as is sometimes esti-
mated,
In one silo 100.4
of good was taken out
waste was found to be about 7.2 tons
or 675 per The tons of
waste was coftsidered unfit to feed to
sheep, but probably mach of it conld
have been fed to cattle with perfect
With careful covering and
z. the waste should be kept he.
from which
ise
tons
the
ensils
oy
cent. ome
low per cent,
the standpoint
There was found
waste whatever along the side
at bottom, although
were ned. The w
from 4 ine
top to 18
the wet st
applied,
when considered from
of cattle
dirt sid
iste on top varied
hes at the center of the
: at tl
fF Cover was not so
¢ edges where
well
wn of the top cov-
ered witl vy roofing paper with
straw led worse than that
where the heavy cov ng of wet
straw Nebraska
Farmer,
Well to Think Now of °
Winter
Work horses ea
tered in a shed tl
dry, with access to good quality forage
much more cheaply than when stabled
and fed grain, according to M. W. Har
per, New York State college.
Remove the shoes when
turned out for winter to prevent injury
in playing or fighting, Harper warns
Inspect the feet weekly to see they are
i. good condition. Correct all irrezu.
larities with a rasp to prevent long
hoofs throwing the feet and pasterns
out of shape and making the horse un
sound.
Since horses eat
» comfortably win-
is well-bedded and
horseg’
mostly roughage,
their teetlt will need attention. ocea-
sionally. The upper and lower teeth do
not mesh exactly and sharp edges are
often left on the inside of the lower
molars and the outside of the upper
molars. If the teeth remain uncdred
for they will make the mouths sore and
animals will gc out of condition. Sharp
edges should be rasped down with a
guarded rasp.
Screenings and Wheat
If you are ranging on land that is
to be used for a garden next year, be
careful about feeding screenings or
wheat that has not been cleaned.
Screenings will bring in a remarkable
collection of wees which greatly in.
crease the work of raising a good
garden, If screenings are fed to poul.
try it is probably best to feed the
grain in troughs and then burn any
small s that the chickens will not
eat.— Michigan Farmer,
Nitrogen Fertilizer Pays
Fertilizing the hay crop with sul
phate of ammonia paid on the farm
of John Henderson in Belmont county
who secured an increase of one and
one-half tons of hay from an expendi.
ture of $3 for the fertilizer applied ns
n top dressing, according to estimates,
Part of the field received no fertilizer
and here the timothy yielded only
1500 pounds per acre, while on’ the
fertilized portion the yield was almost
two and one-half tons to the acre,
Qbio Farmer,
How to Prevent and
Hides So Affected Greatly
Lessened in Value.
{Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )——WNU Bervice,
Common warts on cattle, though
sometimes considered of minor Impor-
tance, reduce the value of affected
hides from slightly to as much as 2
per cent-——sowmetimes
the prevalence of warts on cattle is
increasing, according to Information
gathered by the United States Depari-
ment of Agriculture. Leaflet
just issued by the department,
how to prevent remove
growths, Warty when tanned
have roughened and weak spots whepe
the warts occurred on the skin, and
the affected parts ure considered
worthless, the publication shows. Cat-
tle buyers, therefore, make discounts
for warty purchased in the
markets.
Experiments conducted with wart
material show that the growths are in-
fectious and under ordinary condition
are probably spread when the infective
material comes in contact with the in-
Jured skin of healthy cattle. Preven-
tive measures include the removal of
all warty cattle from the herd and
the cleaning and disinfecting of ex.
posed pens, rubbing and other
equipment. Small warts may be re
moved by clipping them off with ster.
tying a sterile thread
tightly around the wart near the base.
The stumps remaining after the warts
are removed touched with
glacial acetic aeld or tincture of lodine.
The removal of large warts requires
the attention of a veterinary surgeon.
Leaflet 75-1.. Warts on Cattle, may
be obtained free by epplying to the
Office of Information, United States
Department of Agricnlture, Washing.
more,
tells
and
hides
animals
posts,
fle scissors or
should be
ton.
Feeding Test That May
Be Worth Some Thought
In a feeding test carried on last win-
ter and spring at the Minnesota agri.
cultural experiment station, calves did
better cither yearlings or two
year-olds in being for the
beef market.
Owing te the conditions, the fatten.
ing of feeders for the marker through
the period indicated was not a profit.
able farm enterprise. However, in fat.
tening three lots of cnttle—one of two-
sear-olds, one of yearlings, and one of
calves—\W,. H. Peters, head of the ani.
mal hushandry division, found that the
calves best returns The
calves made 100 pounds of gain on a
great deal
line or two year old
than
fattened
gave the
less feed than either vear-
feeder steers
of a re
It is not
to be assumed. though, that the resulis
and all
etter to bay,
The foregoing is the gist
port which Mr, Peters made
answer for gond the question
for fatten
or calves
hether it in
two-year-old
HNnes
ler other conditions to market
might
As
argins” a different showing
have been made
the ittie in the
ly the
In the esis three
‘
fed in
lots were game Ww
The ra
under simil
which shel
barley.
Leaf Area Needed for
Best Apple Production
The Washington experin
been 2 experiments on
tion of leaf fruit. It
I that twenty to thirty leaves
ent station
condoetin
area to
it are ne ary to produce
an apple of commercial size under con-
Washington state, and that
forty to fifty leaves per fruit are need
ed if frult
next season's crop.
of a vigorous growth tree by an
available of nitrogen, abun-
dance of organic matter, and sufficient
moisture will maintain a large leat
area. There have been Indications
that in the East moisture 18 most com-
monly the chief limiting factor of these
three last items. [It is estimated that
the average twenty to twenty-five-year-
old apple tree will carry sixty to one
hundred thousand leaves, which means
that the crop on such a tree should
be limited to one thousand, five hun
dred to twe thousand, five hundred
fruits, if best commercial size and
quality as well as annual crops are to
be obtained.
ditions in
buds are
of
supply
FARM NOTES
The best time to transplant conifers
is In the fall, according to a Pennsy)-
vania nursery,
* »
Health and vigor of the stock are
the foundation of success in the poul
try business.
. »
Bermuda onions grown in Florida
this year were equal in quality to
those grown on the island of the same
name,
. LA
A young queen and young bees In a
hive in the fall are good insurance
against weak, unproductive colonies
next spring.
. » »
The time to sell the unprofitable
cow 18 when she Is found to be un.
profitable; and she should be sold to
the butcher,
. » @»
A pure bred large white sow owned
in Lincolnchire, England, In giving
birth recently to 21 pigs has com
pleted tha raising of 50 pigs in her
Inst three liters,
“
ON EASTERN MIND |
Astrology, which is as clearly one
of the oldest of superstitions as as- |
tronomy is the oldest of the sciences
appears to have reached its climax
in the West in the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth centuries, when posi- |
tion was ofle of great honor and im- |
portance in the courts of Europe. |
But the combined effect of the Co
pernican astronomy, the Reforma. |
tion, and the Renaissance was to
sap its foundations, and after the
middle of the Seventeenth century its |
decline rapid and
In the East, however, which
its real home, and where Copernicus |
counted for little and Luther for
nothing, it has had a far longer life
and a far stronger hold, and doubt. |
less has a wide vogue still, In Egypt, |
India, China, and Chaldea it was the |
subject of and high
honor almost from the dawn
tory.
The
its
wis unchecked,
wis
elaborate study
of Chaldea
in this department is attested by the
Bible when it tells of Daniel's
appointment by Nebuchadnezzar as
“master of the magicians,
gers, Chaldeans, and
And it Is a probable conjecture that
the wise men from the East who fol
lowed the Bethlehem some |
five centuries later gd gnd |
astrologers from Cha
If, after the lapse of 19 more cen.
turies this strange hybrid of science |
and superstition which flourished so |
under the lear skies of |
of Shinar still
its anclent pow the fact
tributed
conservatism of it till
few years really wa
East. While in the
helped science
its hold upon
ently been streng
rthened by
religious
special eminence
ite
tis
astrolo
soothsayers.”
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an
We
to discredit astrology, |
the East has appar
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