Show SEAWEED LATEST HEALTH BUILDER fed to live it also provides iodine in milk perhaps there la nothing new under the sun but the new uses often found for old things are amazing enough to keep as interested in life for instance seaweeds when the bogg owned by J M ballard of indiana won the grand championship pion ship at the list international livestock show in chicago most of the farmers who inquired about their diet were amazed to tand that they were being fed kalp a rough brown leaf seaweed that grows in profusion off both american chasta prof oscar arf of the ohio state university was the first to experiment with belp as live feed ills sac acs prompted experiments at purdue and later ones at the iowa and etab agricultural experiment stations it araa found that the weed contained at least 30 important chemical elements and was especially rich in iodine in which several regions of the country are deficient says the farm journal mixed in a very small proportion with other feed it proved to hie decidedly valuable medicinal qualities biot onla has this addition to animal diet helped the animals it also Is providing a means of supplying iodine to the human population it has been definitely proved that by using belp in a cow s ration lodana can be fed into the milk chicago physicians are recommending this ionized iodized mallte to their patients says the farm journal article adding that similar experiments with eggs are proving successful strangely enough belp has been used for many years in the making of iodine itself although tt never occurred to anyone thit its health giving properties could be transmitted directly to human and animal uses that Is it biad never occurred to anyone tn the united states until recently over tn japan wise little orientals Orient als have been eating seaweed for ages and occidental visitors generally have beyard ed it as a primitive habit good market seen for right kind of colts for about the first time tn 15 years the old time horse dealer la in his glory now says W n peters chief of the division of animal husbandry of the university of minnesota this year the demand tor horses has been such that most any ald kind of a horse could be sold for some kind of a price and any good horse could be sold for a good price the time has finally arrived says professor peters when all that farm ers need to do to insure a good profitable horse market for several years to come Is to go ahead and raise colts provided they have good big mars to mate to good big stallions the need for horses Is so great however that many farmers are likely to decide to begin raising colts from whatever mares they have the common inferior ones as well as the good big ones this will be the quickest and surest way of creating an over supply of inferior horses in a few years and destroying what would become a permanent profitable market for horses it every farmer would resolve to raise only good useful colta brood bows sows should be fed very little grain brood bows sows should be given vry little grain for 24 hours after farrow ing but should have all the water they desire the first feed given after far rowing should be limited in amount and fed as a thin slop the amount fed Is increased gradually as the need more milk until in 10 or 15 dayi the BOW la being fed nil she will eat the brood bows sows ration during the buckling period should be slightly laxative and provide tor increased mallte production to meet the needs of the pigs economical gains at no time in a sheep s life can a more gain be made thin when the lamb Is suckling its mother and at this time one has to be on the alert less something Is done or neglected to be done so as to hinder growth thereby it of ita baby fat much earlier than nature intended the first 90 days of the lamb a life the lamb can with a little forethought be made to gain from one halt to a pound per day feeding for profit it makes a big difference how a person fieres live stock when it conea to counting profits ahe cow that la not fed a balanced ration a ration such aa Is required tor economical milk production cannot produce up to ifer capacity an improperly fed hog cannot make pork economically and a steer fed nothing bat corn and timothy hay or corn stover cannot produce beet at as low a cost as 13 possible with good feeding proper cara alao UK |