Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

tTISAMAITEROFHEJam rtjjM, &AKIIIO POWDER Absolutely Kir* THEKE IS NO SUBSTITUTE tom of the sleigh that was to take him out. “He would have made a goos boss,** said the old fellow. “He’s a hard mao to nick.” (TO BV CONTINUED.)

HINTS FOR FARMERS Live Stock Farming. Regarding the value of live stock farming as compared with the growing and selling of grain, Professor L. HPamrnel of the lowa agricultural college says; “It lias been demonstrated both by experience and practice that the farmer who sells beef, pork and mutton that he has produced from the corn and grass raised and fed on the farm makes more money per acre than the one who grows only wheat or corn or cotton and sells it. “It is uot necessary to entirely discontinue jaising these crops, but if we are to produce a surplus to be sold in foreign markets it is best to export that surplus in the most condensed and marketable form, as meat and animal products, rather than in the original crude and bulky state. “In the long run the farmer will make the most money who devotes his fields to the growing of forage crops to feed stock, making use of all the raw products at home, thereby saving not only much of the cost of transportation, but maintaining the fertility of the soil. By doing so corn belt farmers will maintain their pre-eminence in agricultural lines. “Experience iu the past few months has shown that the men who stuck to feeding and were not tempted by high prices to sell their corn have made the most money. Anything that will enhance tlie productive capacity of our soils for the production of forage conditions will help the farmer.”

Hnndlinx Manure. One hundred head of average cattle properly cared for during n five months’ winter will produce from 500 to 1,000 tons of farmyard manure, worth on the average $1.50 per ton for the fertilization of succeeding crops, states T. Lawson in the Rural World. There is no soil so rich that the farmyard manure will not Increase the yield and quality of the crop and no soil so poor that a liberal application of this fertilizer will not be followed by satisfactory results. Fifteen to twenty tons to the acre of properly prepared farmyard manure r; a top dressing to a wornout hay men flow will double or treble its previom product, and the increase is apparent for years. Its value for fertilizing purposes largely depends on its const! ents, its methods of preparation unJ the condition in which it is applied. The solid portion of excreta of cat > has comparatively little value as a t> r tilizer unless these are being fatten 1 on a liberal nitrogenous ratioD, such cottonseed meal, when a liberal p : centage Is liable to be unassimila r and pass through, giviug it a value a fertilizer, but in young cattle »:■ milk stock the assimilation is usual such as to leave the solid excreta on inert organic matter. The liquid f tion, or urine, contains the waste » the tissues in the form of urates ms salts, which, stored in a suitable > - hide and allowed to ferment and it i dergo a chemical decomi>osition, mi l. a very rich and effective fertill er.

j The Modern Way With Corn. The practice of northern and western farmers in cutting their corn in field :>• due to their desire to utilize the fodtbr grown with the corn. This they do in the most economical manner by using a machine for cutting and harvesting the crop. Sixty per cent of the feed value of the corn crop is in the ear, 40 per cent in the stalk and leaf. By the western method of saving corn the live stock eat all but 10 per cent of the crop grown, which is represented in refuse bits of stalk too coarse to be eaten. The corn crop of the west is a success because it is handled with machinery, and every part of the crop fully utilized. We of the southwest will never grow corn largely until we adopt the machine methods of production, as only, a limited amount of fodder or corn blades can be saved by the old antebellum system of “fodder pulling.”—Dallas (Tex.) Farm and Ranch. SeteatMle BUmwtac. In manuring the nature and composition of the soil have to be taken into account. Thus clays derived from potash feldspar would not need potash manuring, while many sandy soils would, on the contrary, be highly benefited thereby; also It would not pay to add lime to a chalky aoil. For fine commercial job* printing come to The Democrat office.