Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — Good Feed for Good Livestock [ARTICLE]

Good Feed for Good Livestock

It is poor policy to nut good feed into poor livestock'. Progressive farmers realize this clearly and are rapidly replacing their scrub stock with either -pure-bred or highgrade animals. A farm management study in Wabash county last year showed that good stock and careful feeding has much to do with making a farm pay. It was found that on farms where the livestock returned less than $l5O for every SIOO worth of feed, the labor income averaged but $385 per year, where from $l5O to $2lO was returned by the stock of SIOO worth of feed the; labor income was $971 per y6ar and on farihs where the stock returned over . $216 per SIOO in feed tie average labor income I was $1,895 ner farm. Blood will tell in counting up the profits and the use of supplemental feeds such as , tankage and soy beans will boost the bank account at the end of the year.