HUBBARD ENTERPRISE
DAIRY
FACTS
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ESSENTIALS FOR
DAIRY COWS ARE
PROFITABLE PORK
ROUGHAGE EATERS
Certain writers on economic prob
lems state that in the future farm ani-
mals must more and more depend on
roughage and the by-products of grain
I that are not suitable for human food.
They say that this necessity will arise
to supply food for the rapidly increas
ing numbers in the world’s population.
Whether this condition ever does come
or not, we do know that the grain is
the expensive part of Ae cow’s ration,
and the more nearly roughage can be
made to supply the feed, the cheaper
will milk and milk products be pro
duced, writes W. H. Woodley, exten
sion dairyman, college of agriculture,
University of Arkansas. Grains, high
in protein content, are especially ex
pensive.
The farmer is fortunate in that he
can raise a roughage that is high in
protein and supply this much needed
milk producing element in hay cheaper
than he can buy it in grain. There is
probably no section where some kind
of legume hay cannot be raised. An
acre of land that will produce two
tons of soy bean hay yields three
times the digestible protein that the
same acre will produce in corn (ears
and stover) and five times more than
prairie or other grass hays can be
raised. It yields about the same
amount of total digestible nutrients as
the acre of corn, and twice the amount
in prairie or grass hay. So to the cow
it is both hay and grain.
The milk cow with her four stom
achs and her ability to consume about
five times as much feed as the horse.
Is essentially a roughage animal, and
can only do her best work, and do it
most economically when she Is sup
plied with all the roughage such as
mentioned above, that she will con
sume.'
A farmer can buy good grain in the
market and the kind that be wants,
but even if it was as economic to do
so, he can seldom find hay of the -qual
ity and kind that it is best to feed, so
in self-defense he must raise It.
Homemade Fly Spray Is
Beneficial in Summer
Most owners of small herds will pre
fer to buy a prepared fly spray, but
others prefer to mix their own. The
following ingredients can be purchased
at any good drug store and have been
used successfully by the Iowa experi
ment station:
Coal-tar dip, 4% quarts; fish oil, 4%
quarts; coal oil, 3 quarts; whale oil,
3 quarts; oil of tar, 1% quarts; laun
dry soap, 3 bars.
In preparing the spray, the three
bars of soap should be dissolved In
Warm water. Then the other ingre
dients can be added separately and
enough water added td bring the to
tal amount up to thirty gallons.
This spray, like others, is most ef
fective for a few hours after using. It
has a pronounced odor which aids it as
a fly repellant, but it does not seem to
affect the milk unless some drops in
the utensils. The oil in the spray col
lects dirt but most of this will wash
out when the cows are out in the rain.
Lack of Proper Feeding
Accountable for Losses
There is plenty of good authority
for the statement that one-third of
our dairy cows are unprofitable, one-
third just about break even and the
remaining third only are profitable.
The situation Is accountable in two
ways. First, there is lack of proper
feeding. A dairy cow must have a
properly balanced ration in order to
do her best. Second, there are dairy
cows whose breeding is such that they
can never be made into profitable pro
ducers, no matter how they are fed.
Just a glance at some cows will tell
any person that they will never be
suitable for profitable dairy produc
tion, but there are large numbers of
the in-between kind that can only be
told after they have been tested and
fed properly.
Gut Dairy Heifer Cost
by Reducing Protein
That tremendous saving in the cost
of raising dairy heifers can be made
by reducing the amount of protein in
the ration heretofore considered the
minimum amount necessary for nor
mal growth, has been shown by 12
years of investigation at the Missouri
College of Agriculture. Former stand
ards for the minimum amount of pro
tein are really 20 to 60 per cent too
high, according to the tests. As pro
tein is the most expensive part of the
ration and is usually the part that
must be purchase«! a tremendous sav
ing can be made <m the $400,00(1.000
required annual!' to maintain the
present cow population.
Normal, healthy parents, clean far
rowing pens, and proper feeding and
management of the lactating sow are
necessary to profitable pork production.
By the time the ptgs are two or
three weeks old they will show a de
sire to eat something besides milk,
says Edgar Martin, University of Ar
kansas. This desire should be satis
fied with good pasture and a suitable
grain mixture, remembering that skim
milk and bnttermilk «are very high in
protein and are, therefore, an excel
lent growing feed for the rapidly de
veloping pigs.
Along with a suitable quantity and
quality of feed, including the mother’s
amount of exercise, preferably at pas
ture and in sunshine. The greatest
mistakes made in raising young pigs
are underfeeding and underexercising.
If small pigs are furnished an abund
ance of exercises at pasture, and given
the proper feeds, overfeeding is not
likely to occur until after weaning
time. Figs being developed for breed
ers should not be allowed to become
too fat. This is accomplished by hand
feeding and governing the allowance
¡by the ¡condition of the future breed
ers, always giving an abundance of
¡exercise, pasture, shade in summer,
water, protein of the right quality,
and minerals. Pigs to be sold oir the
market should be full-fed from birth
until .weighed to the butcher, and the
self-feeder is probably the best
method.
Hog Feeding Floor Is
Beneficial to Animals
Tf a hog feeding floor is located on
Che south or east side of the hog
house, the animals will be protected
from cold winds and will also receive
a maximum amount of sunlight.
Where the ground is firm and well
drained, the concrete for the floor may
be laid directly on the soil, after it
has been levelled and firmly compact
ed, and all refuse has been removed.
If the drainage Is poor, however, a six-
inch fill of cinders or gravel is recom
mended.
The concrete used for feeding floors
Is made with five and one-half gallons
of water to the sack of Portland ce
ment. In most, cases a suitable con
crete can be made with 2 cubic feet
of sand and three of pebbles or
crushed rock to a sack of cement If
this mixture is too dry, use less sand
and stone, if it is sloppy or wet, add
more of these materials.
The concrete is placed in alternate
sections, each of which is ten feet
square. As soon as these sections have
hardened, the intermediate ones are
placed.
If the floor Is sloped slightly in one
direction, it will drain quickly after
rain. A curb placed on three sides of
the floor will prevent the< hogs from
pushing their feed into the ground,
where it will be wasted.
Need Less Protein to
Grow and Fatten Hogs
N ot Confined to a Few
I have found that the flame of moral
judgment burns just as brightly in
the man of humble and limited expe
rience as in the scholar and man of
affairs.—Woodrow Wilson.
Another View
Old Queen of the Seas
The United States superdreadnought
Wyoming on July 19, 1912, made 22,045
knots on her standardization trial.
This was the largest and fastest bat
tleship afloat at the time with twelve-
inch guns.
Height of Wisdom
“We regard our ancestors as wise,"
said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown,
“especially those ancestors who at
tained riches we hope to inherit.”—
Washington Star.
The Verdict
“Beautiful,” murmured the flapper
tourist as she gazed upon the image
of the sphinx. And as an afterthought
she added, “but dumb.”
Worth Remembering
When a man offers you something
for nothing, don’t accept It unless yon
can afford to pay at least double its
value.—Exchange.
Few D o It
Another good intelligence test is
the ability to memorize good poetry—
and never quote It.—San Francisco
Chronicle. '
Poor Policy
To lose our charity in defense ot
our religion is to sacrifice the citadel
to maintain the out-works.—Colton.
Turks Bar Christianity
Turkey is the only country in the
world in which Christianity Is not ac
cepted as a religion.
Evil in Satiety
1 hold this to be the rule of life:
Too much of anything is bad.—Ter
ence.
tts Significance
The gold fringe on the American flag
denotes that it is regimental colors.
It takes a pretty girl of eighteen,
with lots of company, to brighten np
the gloom of a big old mansion.
A man gets great diversion out of
his reason if he has a good one.
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Live Stock Notes
Molasses N ot Treacle
The words “molasses” and “treacle"
are often used as synonoyms, but
properly speaking molasses is the un
crystal ized sirup produced in the mak
ing of sugar, while treacle is obtained
in the process of refining sugar.
“1 visit my friends occasionally,” re
Oxen in Farming
marked the book lover, “merely for South African farmers find oxen
the purpose of looking over my li profitable in farming. A two-year-old
brary.”
steer costs $25, and after four or five
years’ work, the butcher will pay $50
for him.—Farm & Fireside.
Great Religious Sects
The world’s population of .Moham
Alpaca and Sheep
medans and Buddhists is estimated at
730,000,000.
The body of the alpaca has some
what the form of a sheep, but it has
a long neck. It is also more active
Useless Information
An Industrious statistician has dis and carries its bead erect.
covered that Great Britain uses an
Uncle Eben
average of 2,798,373,100 buttons a year.
“We all bat an ear fob music,” said
Uncle Eben, “an' many a man is beard
Let Charity Be Wise
wif
attention, simply because he has
It is wicked to withdraw from being
useful to the needy, and cowardly to a good bass voice.”—Washington Star.
give away to the worthless.—Epictetus
Derivation of “ Latin”
The word Latin is derived from
Elephant Good Swimmer
The elephant swims more easily Latinum, which was that part of an
than it walks. It simply stands. up ctent Italy which Included Rome.
right and treads water.
Banana Prolific Plant
An ordinary crop of bananas yields
Epoch in History
Coal wac discovered in America 250 approximately 32,000 pounds of food
per acre.
years ago.
He that walketb with wise men
h e Pity of It
shall be wise; but a companion ot Lots ot T people
> sure they are
fools shall be destroyed.—Proverbs right who never are
go
ahead.—Boston
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Transcript
Three of the five men that drafted Idleness and pride tax with heavier
the Declaration of Independence were hand
than kings and parliaments.—
scientists.
Franklin.
If one is tender-hearted, may the The man who can acknowledge a
Lord give him wisdom with it.
mistake without blaming it on some
Unless a man possesses self-control one else has true moral courage.
be is little better than a slave.
In some families, if they can get
The popularity of some people is it, they think they can afford it.
due to the things they don’t say.
He who takes no position will not
Few people Impair their eyesight sway the human intellect.—Shedd.
looking on the bright side of things.
Logic proves or disproves all things
Study your own seif.—St. Bernard. but it doesn’t accomplish any of them.
Less feed, and especially' less pro
tein,' is needed to grow and fatter,
hogs when good pasture is provided.
But. experiments show that to make
the cheapest gains, unless corn is high,
the hogs should have plenty of feed
and some supplement such as skim
milk or tankage along with even the
best of pastures. Estimates of thp
amount of pork an acre of forage will
produce range between 240 and 600
pounds depending on the amount
and method of feeding. All of
them show that there is very
little gain while on pasture un
less they get some grain with
it. It is usually more economical to
give n daily feed of three pounds "of
grain and supplements combined for
each 100 pounds of live weight. A
quarter of a pound of tankage or its
equivalent in milk products to a hog
each day when they aye getting plenty
of grain on pasture will make fast and
cheap gains and save grain.
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It Is very important to keep feed
for little pigs fresh and clean to pre
vent scours.
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It may sometimes be hetter to fat
ten thin Stockers up to the butcher
class than selected feeders up to prime
beef.
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It costs more per pound to fatten
a steer than the extra flesh will sell
for. Consequently the selling price
for the whole carcass must be enough
greater per pound to pay the loss on
the added flesh and make a profit.
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