Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1901 — Does It Pay? [ARTICLE]

Does It Pay?

Save the Corn Fodder. In view of the fact that coarse fodder for horses and cattle is going to be very scarce and a high price, it behooves the farmers to save the corn stalks by cutting up their corn. An immense amount of excellent fodder can thus be had, which usually goes to waste, and the farmer by so doing can winter his stock cheaply and well. He can also, in many instances, sell his hay, or much of it, at the high prices it is sure to bring. In Jasper county hundreds of thousands of tons of corn fodder can be saved this season if the farmers will but do so, and, in addition to the ready saving it will be to them, they will tind that next season the price of cattle will be very high, by reason of the scarcity of coarse feed now, and if they can cut up feiiough corn , fodder to .winter through the stock they now have and perhaps buy a few head more at the low prices prevailing this fall for feeders, the returns will be much greater. With the facilities now had for cutting up corn it would seem that every farmer should make an effort to save this fodder to feed through the winter And it would also seem that at least one farmer in every neighborhood could make a good investment by buying a corn cutter and binder and cutting for his neighbors at so much per acre. In addition to cutting his own crop he ought to get nearly enough work to pay for the cutter in this one season. Farmers who are interested in saving their corn stalks for fodder should give this matter their attention at once, and" if they cannot induce some one of their number to purchase a machine, let a half-dozen of them go together and buy one. A sample corn binder may be seen at Chas. A Roberts’ carriage store on North Front street, we believe the only one on exhibition in the county.