afford to be without one. The summer silo is of equal importance. It 

 is the exception rather than the rule to have good and sufficient pastur- 

 age during the entire summer. Usually one month, and often several 

 during the summer are very dry. The pastures dry out and stock 

 suffers for succulent food. A summer silo solves the trouble. Twenty 

 or twenty-five pounds bf silage daily will maintain a full flow of milk, 

 feeders will continue to grow and fattening cattle will gain even faster 

 than on grass, provided the same amount of grain is given with the 

 silage that has been given them in connection with pasture. 



LIVE-STOCK 



PRODUCING crops is no more important than raising live-stock 

 on the farm. The two features should receive equal consider- 

 ation for they are absolutely interdependent. 



If the farmer is at all desirous of making his occupation profitable, 

 he should keep enough live-stock to consume the coarser products of 

 his farm and the by-products of wheat, rye and possibly a few other 

 grains. If he is mindful of his duty to coming generations he should 

 conserve the manure from the stock and apply it to the land, for 

 manure is the one thing available or can be made available, that will 

 perpetuate the fertility and productiveness of our soils. 



The exclusive grain raiser is a miner, he is not a farmer. He removes 

 fertility from the soil and impairs its physical condition and returns 

 nothing, not even the organic matter which is essential to make avail- 

 able the inorganic elements existing in the disintegrated particles of 

 rock which make up the substance of the soil. 



The exclusive stock feeder is a party to the crime, for he, as a rule, 

 wastes fertility which belongs to the land that produced the boughten 

 feeds. 



Relation of Stock to Prices of Products 



When the farmer feeds the major portion of the products of his soil 

 to live-stock, whether it be for beef, dairy, mutton or pork, if the feeds 

 are given in a balanced ration, he will receive double the market value 

 for the feed consumed by the stock and have the manure to enrich his 

 land. 



Under the stimulating influence of better farming teaching and a 

 very attractive price for all kinds of farm crops, the soil of the United 

 States have made a very remarkable increase per acre during the 

 past few years. The market value of farm products is governed by 

 the inexorable law of supply and demand. During the past few years, 

 the demand has been greater than the supply, hence the high prices. 



