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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1914)
TT01VTE AND "FA EM MAGAZTNfi RECTTON" Shredded Fodder and Prosperity THERE are men In my neighbor hood," said a country mer chant, "whom I call 'endless thaln farmers,' while there are oth ers whom I call 'breakers,' the lat ter so called because I know that there will be certain periods of each year In which they will have a break la their Incomes. The first always pay aB they buy, while I look out that the second only buy as thev pay" This merchant was not a farmer himself, but he hud grown rich do ing business with them, and he knew the financial standing and the farm methods of every man In hia com munity. In a little speech which he once made he explained his end less chain theory. "Farming," said he, "entails every law of political economy ever men tioned by John Stuart Mill. There Is unearned Increment, a margin of utility, the law of supply and de mand, the manufacturers' profiu. consumption of raw material, plant depreciation, and the labor ques tion. Over .some of these economic principles the farmer has present control, while over others ho has none. He can more or less control raw materials, manufacturers' pro fits and plant depreciation In fact, . his success as a farmer depends on the way he handles these three fac tors. Taking the corn crop for ex ample, his raw material consists of his corn and fodder, and his manu facturers' profits are determined by the way his cattle and hogs turn this raw material into marketable beef and pork, and his plant depre $6.00 per ton as the Bole rough ness." In another experiment, this time at the New Jersey station, it was found that of 200 pounds of vocating the wider use of shreddei! jealously conserved In this country as It Is now in Japan and India, and that the farm in the future without a spreader will be as unique as the farm today without a wagon. The United States Agricultural Depart ment and the State schools, In nd- corn stalks fed to a cow during ten days, sixty pounds, or 30 per cent, remained uneaten. This corn was unshredded, but carefully harvested. The editor of Farmers' Bulletin No. 107, of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture 6eries, in sum marizing the results, says, "shred- stover, are playing safe, because they are not advocating a policy which is going to cost those who practice It extra money. Many tosls have proved that husk ing by hand In the field as compared with cutting the corn with a binder and husking it with a machine, ai ding would, no doubt, result in more lowing for machine depreciation and complete consumption of the Btalks. all that, costs practically the same. In none of these trials, however, I The shredding is thrown in and the has it been claimed that shredded corn fodder Is practically velvet, fodder Is as good aa ensilage, for It From 250 to 1,000 bushels of corn Is not, but the demarkation line bo-1 can be husked in a ten-hour day, de tween the two as rough feed for pending on the equipment. And cattle la closer believer knows. than the ordinary Stover vs. Silage. In the Pennsylvania Station Bul letin No. 83, corn stover and corn ullage were compared with two lots of six steers each. They were fed with the concentrates, corn and cot tonseed meal. In 126 days of the test the average gain on corn stover was 214 pounds per steer, and on silage 210 pounds. The total cost of the corn stover ration was $103. 73 and of the corn Bilago ration I10S.91. Husking and shredding machines will not efface the silo, far from it, but they will efface a portion of the erormous waste of our corn crop, both of silo owners nnd of others. How great this waste hai been can only be conjectured as A whole, but by the acre a pretty whether one owns the machine him self or hires a custom outfit, the an nual cost of busking by hand and biding and husking by machine is so neur Identical that there is no choice. The main difference between the two methods is that one gives you rheumatism and the other gives you fodder. Douglas Malcolm. HOTEL ACKLY Cor. 12th and Stark 8t., Portland, Oregon. KATES: 2.S0 pr week ur. With private) balh, f4.0 up. CLEAN OUTSIDE KOOM8. Cash Register Bargains Our prices about half other dealers, We pay highest price for second-hand regis ters. We do expert repairing and guar antee our work. Will exchange to suit your requirements. 3TJNDWALL CO., 805 2nd avenue, Seattle. Pbone Main 1180, BLACK LEG LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED by Cutter'i Blackleg Pit Is. Low pricfltj, frsh. rulUble; preferred hi Wwttem itockirifn bocauM they pro tftct when other vaoelnni fain Wrllc for ixiltt and tp-timaiilala, 10-dot pkfl. Blteklro Pilll (1 .00 60-t.oat ffkge. Blackleg Ptlll 4.00 Ph ativ inWtor. hut Cutter's hti.L The tuir1f)ri(T of CutUif produt-tfl la dun to ovrr 10 jears of fliwUllKinc In vanlnci and terumi only. In lift en Cutter's. If unnhUiUaiilc. order rllixvt. THE CUTTER LABORATORY, Barktlay, CUilomf HIDES FOBS, WOOL, PELTS, BTO. KLB BARD-STEW AST CO, Seattle, Waao. Write for Price List and Shipping Tags. (Please mention this paper.) elation depends on the disposition i ltl.CIirae calculation can be made , he makes of the humus In building i Thus, for example, If the value or up his soil. A farmer who sells his uln nr corn from nn acre of ground corn as ho harvests it, leaving hlr. j amounted to $25.00, the value of fodder to shrivel up 4n the field, I the shredded corn stalk from the who gives no thought of replacing BRnie acre would be normally $14.08. the plant food which each crop takes . Multiply this hy every ncre of corn from the soil, makes a profit only from his ray material, and when that is sold IiIh Inconin ceases, "On the other hand, the farmer left (unshredded) and the amount would ho enough almost to support Ihe poor of our big cities. The average yield of corn stover ; who saves his fodder, shredding ltj between two and three tons per for the mow or chopping It for hlHjHPre. re we only to allow It one-! silo, hits cheap raw material where- third of the average feed value of with to feed cattle and hogs, who good hny, we should require only j manufacture It Into butler fat, betif three acres of this fodder to equal j and bacon, tho sale of which bring one acre of hay. Now, hay Is onej In a steady all-year Income. These Of the most negotiable commodities In thoir turn provide fertilizer, which next year makes tho soli rich er, so that there Is more raw ma terial for feed, mora cattle nnd hogs to sell, more money constantly com ing In, and so on, year after year. coming from the field. There Is always a market for It, and of late years It has rommnnded good prices and yet, In nearly every part of the country where shredded fodder has become customary It required a short These are what I call 'endless chain i hay crop to awaken the community1 farmers.' They are the ones who ! to the fact that shredded stover wns live comfortably, enjoy farming, and hay or Is hay In everything but name Send their boys and girls to col lege." ('onil'tii'tuble I'amiei'K, Probably tho most comfortable farmers of this country are the corn raising fanners, because as the lit tlo black dots on the government map show, they have more hogs nnd morn rattle per capita than the others. There aro approximately 100,000,000 acres of corn to be har vested this fall tha richest, most productive rrop our country knows --and yet. In connection with this harvest, there is an equal probabil ity that a fair per cent of the value of this crop will be wasted. Bad as It Is, It required centuries to find out that from 30 to 40 per cent of the nutritive value of thp corn Is In the stalk, leaves and husks, and It has not. been learned entirely yet that even without a silo the corn stalks on the farm, when properly Shredded, have ft feeding value prac tically equal to timothy hay and prairie grass and a fertilising value far In excess of either. All farmers do not have silos, but more are seeing the light, and each year thousands of these profit-getting obelisks re being erected. The value of the corn stalk Is being widely advertised, but still there are those who do not reallre that It Is the finest auxiliary roughage when fed with either ensilage, clovor or alfalfa, ns a balanced part of tho grain radon, For Instance, In a recent experiment at the Agricul tural College of Nebraska, It was found that "stover fed with alfal fa returned A value of i.G7 per ton, la comparison with alfalfa at and reputation The Hcliate. Selling the hay and feeding the fodder are one link In the endless Income. Cheap food and high-priced ) butted nnd hoof aro the second link. I A third link, so to speak, Is In the nature or a reumo. wo get uu part of what we give. In farming, as In business, we must render unto Caesar what we take from him, and In this case Caesar Is the soli. With out going Into the detail of soil chemistry, It is sufficient to say that unless we roturn nitrogen and salt containing humus to the field from which we gather our crop, our corn yield will grow loss each year, Just as wheat yields are dlmUihlng In the pralrloa. j Stable manure Is by far the best natural fertlllxer within the reach of tho averngo man, but tho way It has been handled would cause a chemist to weep. Liquid manure Is laden with gold-bearing nitrogen, but to be saved nnd utilised It most corns In contact with something of an ab sorbent nature. Corn Btalks do not absorb at all, many straws absorb poorly, but shredded stover, singu larly enough, acts like a blotting paper, It Is the king of beddings. It Is easily handled, goes through the spreader nicely, nnd rots easily. It Is next year's Insurance for next year's Income, and It does not lessen any of the returns for the current year. 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