Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS Difficult to Buy Proper Feed Stuff* at Random. [National Crop Improvement Service.] There are not a dozen feed stores in the country that carry in stock all the ingredients of a first-class mixed feed at all times and at reasonable prices, and usually they do not carry feeds of the same high quality used by the mixers who work scientifically through a laboratory. This is human nature. Competition compels a dealer to sell the cheapest quality. The best quality of feed is seldom carried, because the average buyer will not pay the highest price. A good many experiment stations in a general way will advocate that a farmer mix all his own feed, but they are human like the rest of us and they will use recognized brands in their own feeding operations rather than go to the trouTTeanJ take the time to follow their own advice. There are a good many herds at experiment stations which are kept as sort of a clinic for professors to practice- theories* upen. - The poor bruter are used a good deal as guinea pigs in hospital practice. On the other hand, at the experiment stations are to be found many of the finest animals ever bred. The mixed feeds of th* first grade can be fed alone or in connection with home-grown corn, oats or barley. To do this widens your ration, and it is correct to do so if it will reduce your cost of feeding. Mixed feeds, therefore, are largely a matter of arithmetic. —— You can usually get the result for less money than by feeding more expensive grains separately.

THE MANURIAL INGREDIENTS OF FEEDS. [National Crop Improvamant Serrlca.] * Nitrogen is the most important and most valuable fertilizing element supplied by feeds, and It is in this element that they show the greatest variation. The Connecticut Experiment Station states that it was found that the average mixed fertilizer contained 3.95 per cent nitrogen and showed in a table that eighteen of fifty-two different feeds contained 3.93 per cent. Among this list is cottonseed and linseed meals, gluten seed, middlings, brewers’ and distillers' products, and a few of the feed mixtures. It is obvious, therefore, that a wise selection of feeds enhances the value of the manure and consequently plays an important part in farm economy. BARLEYPRODUCTS. [Nitlonal Crop liaprowncnt Servlet ] Prof. J. P. Street, In the Annual Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Station for 1912, says: “That malt sprouts should receive more consideration from dairymen, especially in comparison with many of the proprietary mixed feeds containing only from one-third to one-half as much protein as malt sprouts, prices being considered.” He also states that dried brewers* grains, prices considered, in connection with the seed’s high analysis, is one of the cheapest high-grade feeds •a the market.

WHAT’S IN A MIX-ED FEED? (Natlanal Crop InpronoMnt Barrie*.] A high-grade mixed feed suitable •of any kind or breed of dairy cow •bould have high protein content, with an exact dlgeßtible analy*l*.~Tt •an be mixed with corn, oats, barley, bay or other forage, which should be grown upon the farm, provided the mixture would save the farmer any money. As a rule, the ingredients of the highest grades are corn, distillers’ grains, gluten feed, cottonseed meal, h*miny meal, malt sprouts, brewer*’ grain*, linseed meal, pure wheat bran aad salt. The best grades contain no eheap fillerr of any kind and so tho food is highly concentrated and roughage can be supplied at horn*