STRAW IS EXCELLENT ROUGHAGE FOR STOCK By-Product Should Never Be Burned or Wasted. Besides Furnishing Good Feed It Can Be Used for Bedding to Save Large Part of Valuable Liquid Manure for Fertilizer. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Thrashing should not be attempted when wheat or straw is wet or tough, as good results cannot then be obtained. ob-tained. Wheat can dry out much better bet-ter In the head than after being thrashed. If thrashed wet and marketed mar-keted immediately it is discounted heavily in price ; if placed in a bin it is likely to become hot and badly damaged. The wheat straw may be stacked iu the open, stored in the mow, or spread at once over the field. When the price is good it may be sold. It should never be burned. Straw furnishes excellent roughage for live stock, while by using it for bedding in stalls a large part of the valuable liquid manure can be preserved. Rotted straw from an old straw pile or from straw spread directly di-rectly on the field makes good manure, as each thousand pounds of straw contains con-tains on the average about eight pounds of potassium, five pounds of nitrogen, and smaller amounts of other important plant foods. A thousand pounds of wheat grain removes on the average about twenty pounds of nitrogen ni-trogen and about three and one-half pounds each of rotassium and phosphorus.