Show wa f f I 1 I 1 1 it zoi 1 V buying feeds A rood good many farmers make light elgh t ot of balanced rations and equally so ot of athe the constituents ot of tho the feed they buy they purchase their feed supplies largely on the market quotations quotation based on a certain weight when bran was selling at 1600 1500 per ton lon recently slid arid gluten teed feed at 2300 there was a great demand for bran yet the bran contained only about 12 per cent of digestible protein and the gluten feed 27 per cent let us fig ure tire a little there were ocre about pounds pound ot at protein in the ton ot of bran and that cost 15 this was nas paying 6 ai cents centa lor for each pound ot of protein in the bran the gluten cost 2300 but there was pounds ot of it in a ton which was nas a cost per pound ot of IA cents any man can see aee the point and that the elgh priced teed feed was the cheapest when nhan values are considered the above Is s but an illustration ot of the recklessness shown by many in tile the buying ot at teed feed we heard beard ot of a man recently ato when oats were selling belling at about 20 per ton ground them and fell fed them to his dairy V yava that was certainly an absurd thing to do when protein feeds in other forms could be bought very much cheaper the wise thing for him to have done would have been to sell the oats and put the me money nay into other feeds thereby raving caving several dollars per ton on his oats in addition to the cost ol of grinding it Is indeed true that as some say a man needs to have a liberal education to know just what feeds to buy but it Is also true that the farmer that expects to succeed in his business in these days must make a study of his business to the same extent as the city business man has to do when farmers do that the sellers of iced feed hlll sell what the farmers really need to buy rather than what bill D make the dealers the most money Deal dealers ersIn n all kinds of goods generally sell to the intelligent trade the things that have merit but to the unintelligent trade they sell anything that will yield a profit whether it has merit or not |