Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — DIFFICULT TO MIX FEEDS [ARTICLE]

DIFFICULT TO MIX FEEDS

A More Scientific Result Can Be' Produced By Machinery. CrDßt tncKTemeift Service.} As no :*a lots ran alike, it is very dtSißslit to mix straight by-products of ©atm barley, rye, corn, cotton-seed, danseed, etc- by measure, because it is purely gi-ssing. Only a few years ago iPteatik ral fraud or unintentional car- lessaness warn the rale. Before the feet Laws were passed, each manufacturer adulterated all the trade vfeM stand. Every ear of feed sold to the consumer is not analyzed, and the farmer uannic • become • a feed expert because hf- mas no laboratory. Not one.: car ©xt of: sere hundred is ' officially ;• inspec&BiL In the. old- days country millers were throwing feeds together with MO knowledge of feed and were mmimar valuable cows and making the farmer poorer. In those days the feed unities were wrong, the feeds didn’t fit the tables; the digestible analysis saethod was incorrect; feed standards far animals were not agreed upon nor oampaece; the animals didn't fit the standards; tile buyer didn’t know what was in the feeds he bought to mix; and there was an unavoidable Tariatl&a In the concentration of the ieedL conditions’’: have been largely through the joint action of tie government and state experiment stations and .the mixed feed rnanufasetpsprs who have- "every facility for maSntadatng a uniform product. ByJ . nang;". these soigttlfie;ally , prepared if®Ss.- many a herd has. doubled; its -yfeife-.ahd profits.” There are some jafecters- who yah: Buy c lead; oil ’and siyer ami mix and match their o.wn t .Mini','iflgfßUiriy:feet-tie best painters of today have learned that mill-made brands are much better than any-, thing they can mix with a paddle. The same is true in fertilizers to a great extent. In mixed feeds there txk be ao economy in home mixing ieeartse the mixing factories, being sear/;the large, markets,, ran utilize, by-prod acts to the very best advantage. Home mixing cannot be accomplished at one-tenth of a cent per lb., besides the result is ne'ver’twice alike I and catoßOt'te without the help of a " iaLoratory. 1 - ■• ", ' ' ‘ . - '• . . Crag lpgrwe»ei«t Service.] A practical test shows that eight tcess off a first class dairy feed will replsce 13 1-3. tons of. farm grain, making a proportionate saving of about per top it also puts three times as nru-h fertilizer back on the *3.wa as is in. the grain this farmer cpaii ,'pbßl ■. There is no sense in hauling two VsAc off cheap feed when one load of high-grade feed win do the work and costs bat three-fourths as much as the