12 The Bulletin. 



DAIRY BARN PLANS. 



If a dairy barn is needed, the demonstrator will advise concerning 

 its location and construction, even to the extent of furnishing plans, 

 etc. 



In all these and in many other ways the dairymen of the State may 

 receive the assistance of an expert dairyman if they are sufficiently 

 interested to do their part of the work, but no dairyman can be helped 

 who will not help himself. 



ONE DAIRYMAN'S OPINION OF THE WORK. 



The work already done in this State has fully demonstrated its 

 value. One dairyman who has been visited by the demonstrator 

 writes : 



"We have been helped and will be glad if you will continue the 

 visits. 



"1. We have found that we only make one-half the butter from 

 each cow that the best dairies do. 



"2. We have found that we lose ten or fifteen per cent of the butter 

 in skimming and churning. 



"3. We have been induced by your agent to visit one of the best 

 dairies in the State (about fifty miles distant), in his company, and 

 we learned a lot of things there. 



"4. I have a very high opinion of the good the dairy agents may do 

 in this country." 



FEEDING BEEF CATTLE. 



The work of the State Department of Agriculture on its test farms 

 during the past three years has demonstrated that, with our cheapest 

 available feeds and proper facilities for handling the animals, the 

 feeding of beef cattle may be made profitable, at least, throughout the 

 central and western parts of the State. It is a fact, however, that the 

 feeding of beef cattle is not generally regarded as profitable in this 

 State. 



Good feeders are too scarce, freight rates too high, and the feeds 

 generally used too high-priced to permit of the profitable feeding of 

 beef cattle, especially if the full value of stable manure be ignored, 

 as is very generally done in this State. 



By using a ration consisting of corn silage and corn stover, both 

 cheap feeds and readily produced on the farm, and cotton seed and 

 cotton-seed meal, cattle feeding may be made profitable, if proper care 

 and intelligence be given to the purchase and care of the feeders and 

 a fair valuation given to the stable manure. 



Silage is one of the best and cheapest feeds for beef cattle, and, in 

 cases where it is not necessary to provide extra power to drive the 

 machinery for filling the silo, it should be used by every feeder of 



