HOMB GROWN DAIRY FE;e;DS. IJ 



None of the equipment described is necessarily expensive. 

 Given the things we ask for, and a careful man, interested in 

 doing his best, and milk good enough for any one to drink can 

 be produced in a barn costing a moderate sum as well as in one 

 costing $10,000. 



HOME GROWN DAIRY FEEDS. 

 By B. Walker McKeen* Fryeburg. 



For many years this branch of dairying has seemed to me to 

 be of great importance, and if such has been true in the past 

 it must be pre-eminently true in the present, with its high prices 

 for grain and scarcity of help. 



While ]\Iaine dairying has increased in its profits and in the 

 general intelligence of the people who are engaged in the busi- 

 ness through the use of purchased feeds, and while there may 

 be many reasons for continuing their use, it does appear that 

 with the increased intelligence to be found in dairy circles, there 

 should be a turning of attention more and more to the possibili- 

 ties of our own farms for the production of food, and the con- 

 serving of our natural resources through better farming, both 

 in the raising of crops and in the saving of fertilizers. 



In the first place, a proper rotation must be selected and such 

 a choice of crops, and methods of growing them, made as shall 

 tend to place every acre of the farm in some productive crop, 

 eradicate all old grass fields, and give a large variety for feed- 

 ing. Coupled with this should be the knowledge of the proper 

 feeding of stock, the saving of all waste, the best methods of 

 applying manure to the land, and the proper use of all tillage 

 implements. And, however the details may be mastered, all 

 must remember that no one can afford to feed otherwise than 

 liberally. Poor feeding impoverishes the soil and the owner, 

 while generous feeding brings ample returns in more income 

 from the animals and in more productive fields, besides that 

 indirect source of gain, the pleasure and pride which come from 

 the handling of well-fed animals and in gathering abundant 

 harvests. A well known writer has said that he who would 

 practice true economy in feeding farm animals should have 



