Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1912 — LIVE STOCK AS HOME GRAIN MARKET MAKERS. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK AS HOME GRAIN MARKET MAKERS.

In talking with Professor Hunziker, Chief of the Department of Dairy Husbandry at Purdue, on the subject of Live Stock on the Farm, as profitable market makers for the farm grain products, the Professor gave the fol-, lowing interesting table on possible com consumption by dairy cattle alone in. Indiana. He said: "I have not the necessary statistics within reach to estimate what portion of the corn crop of our state is consumed by dairy cattle or that by beef cattle, but take for instance, as an estimate, according to the United States census report for 1910, the corn crop in Indiana averaged 39.3 bushels per acre. It Is estimated that with this yield, that the acre will produce about.ten tons of corn silage. The average cow eats during the year (about eight months) six tons of corn silage? containing about twenty-three and one-half bushels of corn. The average cow possibly receives four pounds of com meal daily eight months of the -amounting to fourteen bushels of corn. Thus the total corn consumed per cow in the State would average thirty-sev-en and one-half bushels; as we have 666,000 dairy cows In Indiana, the dairy consumption would amount to about 24,975,000 bushels annually. The man on the farm who is figuring like any man who is engaged in commercial pursuits must, is no doubt winning success as a result, and the man who takes advantage of such a splendid education as that afforded by the National Dairy Show at Chicago each year, will have laid before him the latest result of the work of his fellow ‘ men in every department of dairying that will make for an increase in profit from his operations. The National Dairy Show at Chicago affords a Ten Days’ Short Course In everything of value to the man who is trying to win. The show begins October 24th and lasts until Including, November 2nd. Cattle, Machinery, Instructors, Practical Demonstrations, Everything down to date, and worth inestimable value to the man who wants results from his work. Adv. .