FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 263 



we have a yield in the field sufficient to feed a cow thirty-six months. In 

 the case of our sorghum last year, it represented a feeding value of 

 forty-four months, and this year, with a poor stand, we have a food value 

 of thirty months per acre. These figures are startling to the average 

 farmer who has been in the habit of saving his fodder in the old way, 

 or not saving it at all, as I see a great many are doing in this State. In con- 

 nection with the food value of an acre of corn, let us see how it com- 

 pares with an acre of our blue grass pastures. I find that one can not 

 depend upon pastures to furnish a liberal feed throughout the season, 

 but admiting it will, we can not safely put more than one mature animal 

 on an acre which means that for six months an acre will sustain one 

 animal, while our acre of corn in the silo will feed the same animal from 

 five to six times as long. 



We have now devoted as much space as we are entitled to in pre- 

 senting the advantages of green feeds, so will turn our attention to the 

 grains and by-products that are being extensively advertised by stock- 

 men and dairymen. 



The farmer who buys these feeds that are advertised notices that 

 the advertiser puts especial stress on the protein content of his feed. 

 This is due to the fact that the lacking element in farm grown grains is 

 this nutrient, so that the former is obliged to supply it outside of his 

 own farm crops, and he soon finds that most of the feeds that are rich 

 in protein, are high in price as well, and from the viewpoint of cost of 

 actual protein content. I wish to discuss these feeds briefly: First, let 

 me say that the man who feeds his stock a balanced ration, no matter 

 what kind of stock it may be, he is the man who is making the most 

 money, and the different feeds that I will speak of are the ones I have 

 found the best to make the balance tor the stock in connection with the 

 green and dry feeds that we grow and feed on our farms. We can grow 

 all of the fat forming feeds we require much cheaper than we can buy 

 them, but the element that promotes growth and milk is lacking in all 

 that we produce outside of the clovers, peas and oats, so to know how 

 and what to buy will be a help to us all. A striking example of the sub- 

 ject is the cost of the protein content in corn. Corn contains but 7.9 

 pounds 'of protein in 100 pounds, so that in paying 70 cents per hundred 

 for corn, we pay G.8 cents for every pound of protein it contains. 



I will now give the names of the different feeds that I have found 

 valuable to use in both the dairy herd, fattening lot and hog pens, and 

 as I mention them will give the cost per pound of the protein they con- 

 tain. The first on the list is Atlas Gluten Meal, a by-product of dis- 

 tilleries. It is composed of rye, corn and rice, and contains 24 per cent 

 of priotein, and at the price of $1.25 per hundred weight, the protein 

 costs us 5 cents per pound. Gluten Meal is another feed that is becom- 

 ing quite popular, both for the dairymen, stockmen and swine feeder. 

 This feed now costs us $1.25 per hundred weight and has a protein con- 

 tent of 32 per cent, or a cost of 4 cents per pound for the protein it 

 contains. 



Gluten feed, another by-product of the corn syrup factory, is one we 

 must buy with a great deal of confidence in our dealer's honesty, for it 

 admits of being adulterated, and is not a feed that I would recomm-end 



