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San Francisco 
SS& STRENGTH, ENDURANCE, 
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CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
1908. 
PREVENTING FRAUD IN REGISTRY. 
How can the breeding associations pre¬ 
sent the registration of grade animals by 
unscrupulous breeders? First and most 
important the officers should be alert and 
active in discovering fraud, and swift 
and severe in punishing it when discov¬ 
ered. The insurance investigations con¬ 
ducted by Governor Hughes have to a 
very large extent brought home to every¬ 
one the fact that an honorable man in a 
position of trust must, if he would con¬ 
tinue to be considered honorable, as far 
as possible prevent fraud on the part of 
his subordinates. Some of the insurance 
directors who were also directors in a 
great number of other corporations were 
severely criticized for pleading ignorance 
when it was found that funds for which 
they were responsible had been misused. 
In the same way, if the officers of the 
live stock associations do not do every¬ 
thing which can be done to prevent fraud 
then these officers are either incompe¬ 
tent or dishonest. As the officers are 
elected and many of the rules made by 
the general body of the members, it of 
course follows that all the members are 
to that extent responsible. Some of the 
things which it would seem that the 
associations should do are, first, require 
immediate notice of service. Second, re¬ 
quire immediate registration of the young 
animal at birth with as complete a de¬ 
scription as is possible. This description 
should be supplemented by another a 
year later. Third, require immediate 
notice of the death or sale of any reg¬ 
istered animal. Fourth, inspection once 
a year of every herd where registered 
animals are kept by an officer approved 
by the State Experiment Station. In¬ 
spectors enough should be provided so 
that the secretary could always secure 
one immediately if anything occurs to 
excite his suspicions. Of course fraud 
in any business can never be entirely 
eliminated, but if these suggestions could 
be faithfully carried out the difficulties 
attending fraudulent registration would 
at least be considerably increased. C. 
THE RAISING AND FEEDING VALUE OF 
OATS AND PEAS. 
In nearly all of that section north of 
the fortieth parallel and east of the Mis¬ 
souri River, oats are the main grain crop 
with the average dairy farmer, but 
whether oats really are a profitable crop 
to the farmer is a hard problem to dis¬ 
cuss. We must admit that they are with¬ 
out doubt the surest of all farm crops, 
for with the most slatternly ways of 
farming and under all manner of condi¬ 
tions of soil and culture the oat will 
withstand most hardships of any farm 
crop. The very fact of these conditions 
doubtless tends to make the oat the fav¬ 
orite grain crop with the average farmer. 
There is always a demand at fairly good 
prices for a good sample of oats, the 
price very rarely going below a cent a 
pound and as high as 1 y 2 - cent and even 
1$4 cent a pound, and this fact alone 
ought to make it an incentive for the 
farmer to sell his oat crop and buy a 
grain of much higher feeding value. The 
present sason No. 1 white oats would 
bring from $4 to $5 per ton more than 
the cost of wheat feeds, and we must 
admit that wheat bran and middlings are 
far in excess in feeding value as com¬ 
pared with oats. Oats contain about 65 
per cent starch, three to four per cent 
protein, and less than seven per cent fat, 
while wheat bran contains but very little 
starch, from five to six per cent fat and 
12 to 16 per cent protein, so that it is 
plain that wheat feeds are far in excess 
of oats in feeding value. I think for the 
young colt or calf that the more nitro¬ 
genous foods, like oats, are preferable, 
hut for the business cow or work horse 
the foods containing more fat and pro¬ 
tein will give us better results at a less 
cost. I know from my own experience 
that a good quality of milk cannot be 
produced from feeding oats in any shape 
to cows; they impart a disagreeable flavor 
THE RUR.A.L, 
and odor to butter, and I think that 
cheese men hold the same to be true of 
cheese. 
In some localities it has been the prac¬ 
tice to sow Canada peas with oats in the 
proportion of two to three bushels oats 
to one to three pecks peas. I do not 
think this is practiced in general as much 
as it has been heretofore. I have always 
had doubts that the addition of the peas 
increased the feeding value to any extent. 
Peas contain about 36 per cent starch, 
less than two per cent fat, and about 25 
per cent casein. It will be seen that but 
very little of value has been added ex¬ 
cept perhaps a very little in the way of 
cheese elements, by the addition of the 
peas to the oats, and the danger of a 
serious loss to the entire crop is in most 
cases where peas and oats are sown to¬ 
gether, greater by far than the increased 
value of the grain, by reason of the peas 
having been added. In most cases peas 
obtain a very rank growth, and, if heav¬ 
ily loaded with well filled pods, go down 
and the entire crop, oats and all, goes 
with them. I think this one feature is 
a most serious drawback against sowing 
peas with oats for a grain crop. For a 
forage crop to tide us over a long con¬ 
tinued drought and to help out on dry 
parched pastures there is perhaps noth¬ 
ing better to supply succulent food to 
the dairy cow than peas and oats cut and 
fed green; aside from this I do not con¬ 
sider the crop a profitable one for the 
average farmer to raise. If I thought I 
must sow peas and oats I should sow 
the peas in one field and the oats in an¬ 
other, and mix them as I saw fit. Green 
peas for growing young pigs are one of 
the best things I ever fed; in fact, older 
hogs will thrive on them up to the time 
the peas are hard enough to grind, and a 
small amount of peas ground and mixed 
with cornmeal makes a very good ration 
for fattening hogs. f. d. squiers. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
NEW-YORKER 
Potash (actual) two to three per cent 
equal to sulphate potash 3.70 to 5.55 per 
cent, #22 a ton. 
Ans. —First of all you should send to 
the Geneva Station and get a fertilizer 
bulletin. See what the chemists find 
about these fertilizers. You do not give 
the names of manufacturers so we can 
tell nothing about the guarantee. In the 
first one you have nothing but phos¬ 
phoric acid. If the guarantee is worth 
anything you get 280 pounds of avail¬ 
able phosphoric acid for $13, or a little 
over 4.6 cents a pound. This will not 
make a full corn fertilizer when mixed 
with nitrate, as there is no potash in it. 
'The other fertilizer guarantees 200 
pounds of available phosphoric acid and 
40 pounds of potash. At the same price 
as in the other fertilizers this phosphoric 
acid would cost you $9.20. You are 
therefore asked to pay $12.80 for 40 
pounds of potash. You ought to be able 
to buy muriate of potash at $45 a ton. 
As the ton contains 1,000 pounds of 
potash, this means 4.5 cents a pound, or 
$1.80 for the 40 pounds, against $12.80 
which it would cost in that “phosphate.” 
A little figuring will show you that you 
can use 1,500 pounds of the first fertili¬ 
zer and 100 pounds muriate of potash 
which will cost less than $12.50, and 
have more plant food than in a ton of 
the second fertilizer costing $22. 
f- 
Buying a Fertilizer. 
J. G., Auburn, N. Y .—Which of these 
two is the better and the cheaper brand? 
Which will be the better to mix with nitrate 
of soda for corn, oats and peas? No. 1, 
soluble phosphoric acid, 12 to 14 per cent; 
reverted phosphoric acid, two to three per 
cent; available, 14 to 16 per cent; insoluble, 
one to two per cent; total, 15 to 17 per 
cent. This brand is #13 a ton. No. 2, 
soluble phosphoric acid, eight to 10 per 
cent; reverted, two to three per cent; avail¬ 
able 10 to 12 per cent; insoluble, one to 
two per cent, total, 21 to 14 per cent. 
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Mother (examining school report) ; 
“How did you come to have such good 
marks in arithmetic this week?” 
Tommy: “Well, you see, it was this 
way: We had 10 examples a day, and I 
got the teacher to help me to do five, 
and Eric Jones got her to help him on 
the other five. Then we swapped helps, 
see?”—Harper’s Bazar. 
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are to be driven. 
A saving of 50 per cent, over 
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