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feeding point of view, therefore at feeding time I like 

 to water it down with wheat chaff or what some 

 people call blowings from the threshing machine, 

 and at the same time mix in one or perhaps two 

 pounds of sugar-beet pulp to each cow. This method 

 cuts out entirely one ration of hay ; besides, it makes 

 a variety of food and it does help the yield of milk. 

 The dry beet pulp mixes off well with the damp 

 silage. 



Crops under Glass 



When you come to think it out farmers spend a 

 good deal of their time in trying to defeat the 

 ravages of Nature. Frost, wind, rain and even 

 sunshine can do an immeasurable amount of harm 

 unless you can control them. When you get crops 

 under glass you have a much better chance of 

 exercising this control. When a frost is imminent 

 you put on a little more heat, when the sun shines 

 you can open a window and you can regulate the 

 water by the hose-pipe. This process if carefully 

 handled will invariably give you a good crop ; this 

 crop as a rule will generally find a good market. 

 Have we not in our very midst — when I say midst, 

 I mean this country — the finest market filled with 

 consumers possessing a taste for the best money 

 can buy ? When you fail to provide the goods, this 

 customer does not understand your argument when 

 you explain something about a frost or wind which 

 swept your crop away in the night, and therefore 

 you cannot supply his want. What he says is, I 

 must have it, cost what it will. 



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