ORGANIZATION OF THE FARM 



soil, than by purchasing fertilizers outright. 

 The very best of fertilizers are often obtained in 

 this way without any direct outlay. The use of 

 feed stuffs, rich in fertility, may even return a 

 handsome profit as a separate proposition, and 

 thus fertilizing constituents come on to the farm 

 under most advantageous circumstances. The 

 British and other European farmers buy large 

 quantities of our flaxseed and corn*by-products. 

 They figure that they are the gainers even if they 

 do not make any profit on their feeding operations 

 with these products, and they are. Until re- 

 cently the packing-house by-products, including 

 dried blood and tankage in various forms, have 

 practically all gone direct to the land as fertilizers. 

 To-day these products are serving a most impor 1 - 

 tant purpose as feed stuffs, and the time is near 

 at hand when practically every pound of this ma- 

 terial will first be utilized as stock food, and later 

 returned to the soil. The returns are so much 

 greater and so much more economical in this way 

 as to put the purely commercial-fertilizer farmer 

 out of business in the space of a few years at the 

 outside, where other conditions are similar." 



The feeding of grain, hay, and fodder to live 

 stock is an effective means of converting these 

 crops into products of higher specific value, which 

 will better stand the costs of transportation to dis- 

 tant markets. "Cattle and hogs not only convert, 

 but also condense Indian corn. They enable it 



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