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small. I know markets in which timothy hay is 

 sold for $20 a ton and up, while cowpea hay, alfalfa 

 and clover sell for $20 a ton and under. You see 

 at once that the legume hays are the most eco- 

 nomical, for they contain three times as much digest- 

 ible protein as timothy. It is to our advantage to 

 dispose of the timothy and with the same money 

 purchase the legume hays. The saving in corn and 

 bran or other concentrates will be clear profit. 



IN BUYING DAIRY FEEDS GET PROTEIN 



Do you remember the old story about paying too 

 much for a whistle? Ben Franklin, the Ben of 

 Poor Richard, the Ben who did so much for liberty 

 and justice in the early days, was responsible for it. 

 The purpose of the story you will recall, was to 

 point out the folly of extravagance, the folly of 

 buying useless things, the folly of making unwise 

 selections, the folly of choosing without consider- 

 ing the value or need. That tale of our school- 

 days has not yet lost its meaning or its force, and 

 is especially potent whenever feeding stuffs or fer- 

 tilizers are to be purchased. For, after all, when 

 we go to market for these things, we do often pay 

 too much for the whistles we get. Every time I 

 see a dairy farmer setting out for home with a load 

 of corn for his cows, I think that he has bought a 

 whistle, and has, indeed, paid too much for it. 

 Every time fertilizers are purchased, the purchaser 

 not having studied their contents nor the nature of 

 his land nor the requirements of his crops, my 

 thoughts go back to the whistle, and I think, in his 

 case, he has likely paid too much for his whistle. 



And now, when feeds are very high, with the 



