272 ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON STOCK FEEDS AND FEEDING 



A Market for Cheap and Coarse Feed Stuffs. — Around every 

 farm there are many coarse farm products and other materials 

 which would ordinarily be wasted if live-stock are not kept. 

 Corn stover, straw, damaged and shrunken grain, and other 

 similar farm products do not bring much on the market but may 

 be utilized to good advantage in feeding stock. Often certain 



Fig. 23. —Hay should be raised at home. 



hays hardly pay the cost of marketing and may be profitably used 

 in such cases for feeding live-stock. 



Growing of Legumes. — When live-stock are kept on the farm 

 the growing of legumes is very profitable as they increase the 

 soil fertility and serve as cheap feed for furnishing the protein 

 so necessary in animal production. Many of the leguminous 

 crops will not bring their real value when sold but when utilized 

 for feeding live-stock become very profitable crops for the farmer 

 to raise. 



