The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 10

o e s oy L PR A TEN \ THE NONPARTISAN LEADER TENDENCY AMONG THE FARMERS TO FORGET SILOS; SILAGE FOR WINTER § my PROF. C. LARSEN, North anotq Agr!cultural College.) A great many farmers make rem utions during the wintertime tha{ they will not go through another wins ter without silage to feed the stock, hen the cornstalks are in the fieldg overed with snow, the fecd for thq tock is getting short, the cows arg osing in milk, and the young stock n flesh, such resolutions come easy, jput when spring and summer come on end cows and young stock are doing wel‘l in the pasture, and when therg are good prospects for a big crop yield there is a tendency to forget abouf the resolution made during the winter ebout the building of a silo. Do not let rosy prospects for a good: ccrop delay or prevent anyone from uilding a silo. Build a silo of some jkind. If we have a good crop the silg will help to make more of it. If wa have a small crop it is still more im: portant that we presérve. some good “ winter feed for the stock. 5 It is not a question of the kind of T silo. -No ‘one will be prepared to say which is the best silo. There is ng one silo that has all of the good points, But any silo has enough good pointg to make it a paying investment. Re sides, it is so much more comfortable E' to take care of cows and stock with f silos. The writer now has 176 tons of "igilage left. This will be fed to the icows during the summertime. Ther¢ will be no pasture for the cows. Thal ’ jwill be plowed up to be put into corn to fill more silos—and more silage wil] make room for still more cows. Thosg who build a silo and keep cows ang fyoung stock will never regret it. ; z GOT THE WISH FIRST. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Those who scoff £os at the integrity of the Thanksgiv- [ s ing wishbone, read this. % Irene Driscoll is 5 years old and lives at 1055 West Adams street. The prospect has not been bright around 1055 West Adams street. So 5 came Thanksgiving, and Irene wrote 1 to President Wilson. She asked him to please send her the wishbone of Ehe Whitehouse turkey so she might make a Christmas wish on it. But before the president even got the letter five miners out in Butté, Mont., heard about it and they de- cided to make sure of the efficacy of the wishbone. They collected $15 and cent it to Irene. It might be just as well to remem- ber that prohibition desn’t keep our roads dry. Bixby’s Red Polls of A. R. Breeding My herd bull J. D. Merryweather No. 24396 is from 1400-pound cows and is getting the size in my herd. His dam is a full sister to the World's Champion Two-Year-Old Heifer. His first three oOne year. J. S. BIXBY, G. G. Wood Lillian J Wood Wood & Wood Minot’s Pioneer Chiropractors Drupiess Healers Brauer Block S Minot, N.D. LISBON, N. DAK. FRANCIS A. BRUGMAN, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Fitted 36 So. Main St. - MINOT, N. D. HIDES TANNED Send us your hides, we will tan’ and make them into nice, warm, soft robes. We guarantee the workmans}np to be leaves the hide soft and pliable and we guarantee it to remain so. We make the Oak Harness Leather and Lace - Leather. Robes - Lined. - Hides bought and sold at: highest market praces Send for price list and ship- ing taj x THE I.ISBON TANNERY, Lishon, - 3 s s NV DS e b e S A I A SO T A N T R ST S e dams average close to 400 pounds butterfat in’ satisfactory. Our process of tanning|. North ‘Dakota. ' IMENT Greatest of Live Stock F eed S on (By JOHN M. EVVARD, Chief in Swino Production, Animal Husbandry Seotion, Iowa Experiment Station.) Indian maize, or just common plain -everyday corn, the greatest live stock’ grain feed in the world is not with- out its shortcomings. That corn grain alone furnishes a very inefficient ration for growing pigs swine men thoroughly appreciate. The corn must be supplemented with so- called high protein feeds: alfalfa, clover, rape and other pastures or tankage; oil meal, skim milk and other concentrates in order to render the ration acceptable from both the stand- point of physiologic gains ax;d €co- nomic returns. ‘Why not supplement the whole corn grain with “40 per cent protein” glu- ten meal, “26 per cent protein” gluten feed, or “22 per cent protein” corn oil cake meal, products of the corn that supply, in so far as the ordinary so- called protein is concerned, an abun- dance, yes a superabundance? In practice we find but little of the high protein corn products fed te pigs, .presumably there is a reason why. That reason is quite evident— they are not as efficient as the sup- plements which are widely and suc- cessfully used. Cattle have successfully grown and in addition have raised their young on corn products. This has .-been thor- oughly demonstrated by Hart, McCol- lum, Steenbock and Humphrey of the, Wisconsin station. But it is well to keep clearly in mind that cattle eat the entire “above ground” corn plant grain, stalk and all; whereas swine for the most part subsist upon the grain only. It has been possible at thie station to winter ewes fairly suc- cessfully on. corn grain plus corn si- lage, but corn grain alone for preg- 'na.nt sows has been a disappointment. Fatal .Proposition. Corn grain alone for . very young ;growimg pigs is a fatal proposition— it is a ration that brings on vital dis- orders ending in death. - Old, quite heavy mature hogs, such as yearling or older stockers and sows, fatten out most surprisingly well on corn only; ‘in truth so well ordinarily—that it does ‘not pay to add purchased or ‘home grown supplements at this time, | this being particularly true if the ani- mals are healthy, and have had phy- siologically good previous rations. ‘Here are some 1915 results with corn supplemented in the first case with high protein corn products—glu- ten meal, gluten feed, and corn oil cake meal; with wheat middlings and tankage. There were. five two-and-one-half- months-old pigs weighing at the be- ‘ginning 42 pounds each fed for 100 days, all feeds being self-fed in sepa- rate _self-feeders, free-choice or cafeo teria style: First ‘Second G Case. Case. ' Ration. Sh. Corn 8. F. _8h. Corn 8. F. Gluten Meal 8. F. 'W. Mids. 8. T Gluten Feed 8. F. Tankage S. F. Corn Ol Cake % Meal 8. F. Average 'dally gain.......... 46 -.113 -Final welght per pig........88.4 165.2 geed eaten dally per 111 oo 2.67 4.62 d required for 100-1b. gain: h. corn* .. 461 <300 i lfl,eil 1 An Excellent Stand of -Corn. end in the second case | GTuten reéd ..... 7 Corn off cake .63 ‘Wheat middlings .. o b4 Tankage .......... 55 Total all feeds . 549 409 Cost 100-1bs. gain®.......... $7.03 $5.90 *Fced Prices—Shelled corn, 70 cents; gluten meal, $1.65; gluten feed, $1.45; oil cake meal, $1.45; wheat middlings, $1.45; and tankage, $2.50 per cwt. Pigs Not Wise. Manifestly the pigs were not “wise enough” to balance their ration with the various corn products even though there was an abundance of all ever present. But on the corn, tankage, and middlings they made a very creditable showing; in this case the pigs evi dently found the stuff that did fairly good business in the production of gains. Another group not given, but which were fed a little buttermilk in addition to the self-fed corn, middlings and tankage made a very fine show- ing, gains being a little more rapid and somewhat more economical, cost- ing only $5.58 (buttermilk charged at 25 cents). ‘Where fourteen different minerals were allowed at free will along with the corn products to still another group (figures not given) the results were negatiive, that is the minerals did not seem to assist. Among others thess were glven: rock salt, charcoal, limestone, bone ash, cinders, slack coal, wood ashes, Glauber salts, ep- som salts, calcium citrate, and com- mon'baking soda. In truth the pigs having all these minerals before them did not do so well. The addition of a calcium lactate (found in sour milk) and a potassium phosphate to gluten feed produced positive results in some Wisconsin trials by Hart and McCollum, that is the pig did gain to 275 pounds on this mineral gluten feed ration, but no, material growth was secured on gluten; alone. These minerals were fed so as to approximate in the ration the mineral coutent ‘of milk. Of course! potassium and calcium were supplied; in our trial but in a different form. | The objection might be raised tha the pigs might not have been suffi ciently good judges of what was good' for them, to select the correct ration. But the great practical significance o this objection fades into insignificanc when we realize that pigs fed- "free‘I choice” style on any of these ratlons make successful selection: Corn and alfalfa. Corn and rape. Corn and clover. Corn and tankage. Corn and skim milk (sweet or sour), buttermilk or whole milk. . Corn, wheat middlings and tankage. o o and so on. Countless hundreds of such combinations could be made up, and.the pigs would wax fat on any of them. But this does not unquali- fiedly maintain that the pigs might not err in their selection of . corn products when they only are available. But before the test is completed these pigs will have an opportunity to eat of a mixture compounded with gluten feed and the minerals as used at Wis- consin, but this will not be until these pigs have had opportunity to select these as their own gppetltes dictate—- and have failed to make Progress. | dent of the League FEED FOR LAMBS PRS- In tests made by the Missouri ex« periment station four lots of eight ma- - ture western ewes, each with theis seven to ten, twenty to twenty-twos day-old suckling lambs, were fed 56 days as follows: Lot 1, rye pastura end grain; lot 2, rye pasture; lot 3, blue-grass pasture and grain, and lot. 4, blue-grass pasture, the grain mixtur consisting of equal parts of cracke% corn, oats and bran. The eyes lost 1.98, 10.19,.2,26 ancl‘i 11.64 pounds per head, respectively. Alihough the ewes in lots 2 and 4 lost heavily, they were thrifty and in healthy condition. The average daily, gains of the lambs .were 0.468, 0.449, - 0.597 and 0.45 pounds per head. The grain consumed 'by the lambs per 100 pounds of gain was 42.55, 39.33, 41.57 and 49.33 pounds for the respec-’ tive lots. The average total gain con- sumed per ewe in lots 2 and 4 was' 99.78 and 110.93 pounds, respectively. Feeding Silage to Calves. Calves. should become acquainte with silage early in life,. beginning with a very small quantity in connec- tion with other roughage and in- creasing gradually. In this way the young animals develop normally, mak- ing rapid gains while the cost is kept at the minimum. BIRDS AN ECONOMIC FACTOR One quail will destroy 75,000 bugs and 6,000,000,000 weed seeds annual- ly, according to Mrs. Margaret M. Nice of the Massachusetts state uni- versity. Cotton growers lose $1,000,000,000 a year because hunters slaughter by the thousands the quail, prairie chick- ens, meadow larks and other birds which destroy the boll weevil. If the destruction of bug-eating birds could bé prevented, $1,000,000,- 000 a year would be saved to this country, says Col G. O. Shields, presi- of American Sportsmen. s Bird appreciation, the study of bird .song, and ‘hunting with an opera glass,” are popular sports with college girls and women. There is a good d:al of time given to bird study in the public sckools. But the average boy and the thoughtless hunter who carries a loaded gun into the woods seldom re- sponds with any enthusiasm to the esthetic eppeal of birdology. They might, however, learn, to re- spect. birds as a considerable econo- mic value to agriculture ,if they re- ceived frequent lessons in figures such as those quoted-above. Why Ethel Was. Spanked.—“You must learn to ‘swat the fly’, Ethel. Flies carry typhiod fever.” “Will typhiod fever kill any one || who gets it?” “Certainly.” “Mother, why doesn’t it kill the fly?”—Life. —_— ""In general 1t 15 considered that the inefficiency of ordinary corn grain is due to possibly four outstanding defl- ciencies: | 1. Protein sparcity. 2. Quality of proteins inferior—1. e. are not made up of the right kind ot elemental building stones—as are the proteins. of milk for instance. 3. Mineral elements lacking, espex cially calcium and others. 4. Proportion of the various min. eral elements not right, or in t:bthelJ words the “mixture is bad.” f:s To make corn efficient is to supply what it lacks as well as to better pro~| portion the existing constituents sa they will make the most ncceptable' physiologic mixture —“* Separators Stay Sold When The Simple Speed Indicator. is attached. Low price. : Fits any machine. Getsall * the butterfat out of the milk. Attached in two minutes. 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