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THE RURAL N LC W-YORKER 
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THAT AWFUL FEED BILL. 
Xovv that election is over, and “Bill” 
is safely elected, the people are settling 
down to four years more of business. 
Some are pleased because their favorite 
Bill was elected, and some would have 
preferred the other Bill; but all will ad¬ 
just their business to meet the condi¬ 
tions, and the country will keep improv¬ 
ing just as it always has. As a New 
York State dairyman, I must adjust my 
business like everybody else, or let that 
business suffer. Let me see—what is 
my biggest bill of expense? Why, it is 
my feed bill, by all odds. I have 200 
acres of land, but I find that I have been 
paying several hundred dollars a year 
for cattle feeds. Now I wonder if I am 
not making a mistake? I began buying 
feed when it was much cheaper than it 
is now, and I suppose that I have got 
in the habit of it. Then the farm was 
in rather poor shape, and needed fertiliz¬ 
ing, and I figured that it was cheaper to 
buy bran at $15 per ton and feed it to 
the cows than it was to buy commercial 
fertilizer at $30 per ton and spread it 
directly on the ground. But the farm is 
getting in better shape, and the price of 
bran has nearly doubled, with no sign 
of a let-up. It seems to make no differ¬ 
ence how big a crop of wheat the west¬ 
ern farmers raise. It is bought up only 
as fast as the dealers want it, and it 
comes over the tracks by mighty slow 
freight, and our local dealers pull long 
faces and tell us that each load cannot 
be duplicated at the price. On the other 
hand, the “infant industries” of the 
country have flourished wonderfully, but 
they have manufactured a few million 
dollars worth more of goods than they 
can sell just at present, so they are 
willing to lend a few thousands of their 
workmen to the farmers of the country. 
Also the horse market is just a little 
dull. Now, wouldn’t it be a good plan 
to buy an extra team and feed them on 
that great crop of hay through the Win¬ 
ter, and set one of those mechanics at 
turning up the sod with one of those 
nice plows that he has made? 
The next question is: What shall we 
raise? I really don’t believe that it pays 
me to raise much more corn than will 
go in my silo. It is all right to raise a 
little “State” corn extra, just to feed the 
chickens and finish off the pigs. But de¬ 
liver me from a whole lot of dry corn¬ 
stalks. Oats are splendid, but they do 
not do so very well on sod ground. This 
year I sowed a bushel of Canada field 
peas with two bushels of oats to the 
acre. The field where they were sown 
was not one that had greatly come under 
the influence of those bran-fed cows, be¬ 
cause it was the farthest from the barn, 
and on a rather bad hill at that. So the 
peas especially did not grow very big; 
but now that they are thrashed they show 
up pretty well in the grain and the mix¬ 
ture weighs over 40 pounds to the 
bushel. And what stuff it is when 
ground up nicely to throw on top of a 
bushel of that heavily-eared corn silage! 
You don’t need to mix that up with 
“black strap” molasses to get a cow to 
eat it, or to give you grace to offer it to 
her either. 
Some think that I would do better to 
raise the oats on one field and the peas 
on another. This is a question that I 
have not decided for myself. My idea 
was that the oats would hold the peas 
up, and make harvesting with a binder 
practical, which they did this year. But 
the peas ripened first and some were lost 
in harvesting. Now perhaps it zvould 
be best to raise a few acres of these peas 
by themselves and “hook” them up by 
hand. What do you say? 
I have also thought about sowing the 
peas with barley. I don’t know very 
much about barley, but I believe that it 
does better on sod ground than oats do, 
and the peas certainly like the sod all 
right. Also, wouldn’t the barley and 
peas ripen up more evenly than the oats 
and peas? But I am afraid that the 
barley would not hold up the peas, and 
that the whole crop would go down in a 
tangle. Let us look into these things 
and give those western dealers a jolt 
next year by leaving them alone. Maybe 
we can’t raise quite so many tons of 
feed as we have been in the habit of 
feeding, but I think the quality will make 
up for it. If the little light oats that 
have no meats, the hulls of the good 
oats mixed with a few malt sprouts and 
a quantity of corncob, and the whole 
disguised with a coating of “black 
strap,” will show a high analysis and 
make the cows give milk, just consider 
what real plump meaty oats, nice bright 
barley and fat Canada peas would do 
for bossy! I think she will be contented 
with a quart or two less if the conse¬ 
quent void is filled up with nice clover 
hay. 
Here is another question: Does it 
pay a dairy farmer who does not raise 
all of his cow feed to raise crops for 
market, such as potatoes, corn and peas 
for the canning factory, etc.? I see that 
some are raising peas for the cannery. 
These are usually ready for harvesting 
right when the clover needs to be cut. 
And remember that those peas must be 
cut and taken to the factory just when 
they come along and tell you that they 
are ready for them. If the loss to the 
clover crop, the cost of drawing those 
heavy green peas, vines and all, to the 
factory, was added to the value of an 
equal number of acres of field peas 
grown for feed, wouldn’t it be nearly as 
big as the canning factory check after 
they had taken out the cost of the seed 
peas? Then wouldn’t a crop of silage 
corn be just as good as the sweet corn 
at the factory? Some say that the sweet 
cornstalks are good enough for the silo 
with the ears picked off. But I have 
never got too many ears to grow on corn 
to suit me when the whole thing went 
into the silo. Besides, I believe that 
sweet corn is generally supposed to de¬ 
velop a little too much acid in the silo 
to be just right. 
Of course when we raise potatoes or 
other market crops the whole thing goes 
from the farm. There is no straw to 
be used to absorb liquids in the stable, 
then go back saturated with ammonia, 
etc., to the field. For we are not Mr. 
Norton’s kind of farmers who “burn 
chaff to get it out of the way.” We 
know that it makes a big difference to 
a dairy farm whether the milk even is 
sold or manufactured on the place and 
the residue fed to calves and pigs. Now 
we have all Winter before us to thrash 
out these things. Let us get the full 
value of our dollar out of The R. N.-Y. 
by using it to clear these things up. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
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Milk in the cow and fat on the steer are both the result 
of the digestion of food over and above that required to 
maintain life and repair waste. You see, then, that the whole 
profit in feeding for either milk or meat is vitally connected 
with one bodily function—digestion. 
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Bible assimilation, or healthful use, of large quantities of food. ’ ° ” ut ' me t reatest DOS ‘ 
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put feeding on a more paying basis by making perfect digestion , and for that purpose he formulated his Stock Food! We'havo seen how i benefit* 
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very little of this wonderful tonic (formulated by Dr. Hess, M.D., D.V.S.) corrects tendency toward indigestion in liens, makes them eat with appetite and 
put'to use more of the egg-producing food, 
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‘'ji"* K/ivaiu muigrauuii m ueus, manes mem eai witn appetite and 
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