Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

economical ration from the products of his own farm. • * He may be an expert, if pe chooses to study out new ration every time the market changes. but he generally prefers to let someone who makes a business of mixing feeds do it for him. No doubt the majority of users of mixed F ds begin to buy it because of a shortage of forage and grain crops on the farm. If such a man will keep books he will find that as a usual thing the use of mixed stock feed is a mere matter of arithmetic whether he could buy the ingredients cheaper than he could buy them in a so-called “balanced” ration ' .

MUST TASTE GOOD. ' nation.! ow *«*«-]. ■. A dairy ration must, of all things, be palatable so.that a cow will eat it. It must be bulky and coarse so as to avoid indigestion l sickness. It must contain a variety of foods so that the cow will not tire of it or get off her feed. It must contain enough real, protein-—all protein is not alike. It must contain the right amounts and kinds of mineral substances necessary to life, health add milk secretion. It must be highly digestible. Many feeds are only about fifty to sixty per cent digestible and the work of excreting so much waste matter is costly in that it uses up the energy of the food to do it.

SUCCESSFUL FEEDING. (Natijn*! Crop tinsroToaent SerrSge.l It is most significant and probably the best argument for mixed feeds when it is considered that a large number of the most prominent and Skilled men in America have discarded their own mixed feeds and rations because they have found a satisfactory brand of feed which will make as much milk at less cost and no trouble and, above all, keeps cows in perfect health. Many agricultural schools and experiment stations use and have used them for the same reason. You can verify this by writing to any experiment station and they will give you the names of mixed brands which are best adapted to your purpose.

FIVE POUNDS OF MILK ON ONE POUND OF GRAIN. {National Crop Improvemcu: Serrice-J C. H. Packard, of Delavan, Wisconsin, a progressive and practical dairyman, was not satisfied with his ration of home-grown feed. Although he mixed his ration with brains and it seemed to be theoretically correct, he thought he would try out his own mixture in comparison with a first class dairy feed. Much to his surprise he found that he could save about five lbs. of grain per cow per day and nearly 5 cents per cow. He figured his own grain at prices much below the wholesale market and bought his mixed feed at retaiL Also when his ration was figured according to Armsby or Energy method his mixed feed proved to be the right combination to make a balanced ration with his own farm roughage.

EXPENSIVE PASTURE. [National Crop Improvaaeot Service.] When you stop to consider that an acre of pasture will feed a cow, but that that same acre will raise ten tons of silage during the time the cow is feeding on it, it would seem that a grass cafeteria would be the most expensive way to feed your stock. MORE FEED. MORE MILK. [National Crop Improvement Service.] Cows of a decided dairy type will return the greatest profit when fed to their full capacity.—-Nebraska Experiment Station. [National Crop Improvement Service.] Ordinarily, silage will correct the tendency to costiveness. When it is not sufficiently effective for this purpose, add enough old process oil meal to keep the droppings moderately soft, but not necessarily loose. Usually all that is n.eeded is to increase the allowance of concentrates. There are always two sides to every question. If the government insists on more bran in flour, bossy will have to turn to still more artificial bran. Wheat bran is a dear feed. Barley and rye by-products are more economical. Poverty holds a mortgage on the feeder who can see nothing but the price. Some feeds are as cheap at SSO as other at $25 per ton. When you buy hay for cows it usually costs more than grain by-prod-ucts, although it costs half as much per ton. 7 [Nationtl Crop Imprornaent Service.] It is a fair assumption that any farmer who talks against mixed feeds does not knpw what a mixed feed ought to be. There is no danger of any man buyilfg a fraudulent feed. The state laws are very stringent on this point and if any man has any doubt as to the value of a feed, all he has to' do is to write his State Experiment Station and get the truth.

CERTIFICATE OF ENROLLMENT Sound PURE BRED Stallion No. 17 (Standard Bred) (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter 28) The pedigree of the Stallion BEN LEVEY, No. 38717 American, owned by Orson Peck, P. O. ML Ayr, Indiana, county Newton, described as follows: Color and marks— Black, white left hind foot; breed, standard bred; foaled in the year 1901, has been examined in the office of the secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby certified that the