Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — THE MANORIAL INGREDIENTS OF FEEDS. [ARTICLE]

THE MANORIAL INGREDIENTS OF FEEDS.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] 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 2.95 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 lin1 seed 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.