Show FOR FOB FARMERS AND DAIRY XEN MEN OUR farmers and stock raisers would do well to take notice of the tests which have been made in the northwest as to the relative value of roots foots and grain as cattle food intelligent cultivators of the soil in this region invariably raise some stock to con ame sume a portion of their produce for farming alone does to any AL aming extent and the agriculturist atio sticks stick to que dihe soil boil for his income As s not dwely to become a bloated capitalist whose money bags will be a menace to bucolic society A great deal of grain has been fed to stock in this territory bemuse because of low ans markets whets for produce and it lias hn been tilt thought aught better to turn grafen graba into meat and milk than sell it at discouraging ct prices and anyhow it has been considered that grain fed animals were paying stock and that in winter especially P e C ally grain was theJA Log for feed the experiments tir which bieh we refer bew wew made by the guelat agricultural yoU efie and were instituted ted ciak ial reference ence to dairy results ee tuey they covered a period of five years aad d special care was taken with the tests during last winter the animals selected were ordinary shorthorns Shor thorns the grain food tried was c ats ata peas and barley ground and mixed dry with b faai the roo diet was ia angold wurt wart ekys swede turnips aad waite belgian carros I 1 cut and mixed witti wita hay th animals were milked twice aday a day the bhe average yield ander the e grain ain food oo 00 d wa was s 2 22 2 X pounds bounds of i milk i lag p per day a and ud under n de r the root diet 1299 pounds the daily cost ol of the former was 31 cents and of the latter 19 c cents thus each pound of milk from the grain food cost mills and from toe the root diet 9 az 1 1 mills or 14 cents and ai 8 cents per gallon reepen respectively this is a remarkable showing and the record demonstrates that scientifically determined roots are lower in nutritive evalue yet they produce the same amount of milk as grain without spoiling it or reducing animal weight and that at 30 per cent less cost we clip the annexed para graphs f report and comme commend d rtuh them to toe tae consideration ot of utah farmers who can raise the roots mentioned j lust ast as well as the agriculturists of the borth west I 1 take two such cows as we have had in this test over a winter ot of days one upon each of these rations and all other conditions being alik ewe obtain the following comps comparisons ORB roots milk lbs ibs t value 0 of f milk 47 cost of food 85 manure value 7 net gain 19 grain milk lbs ibs value of milk 50 0 cost of food 00 56 m snare manure value 16 net gain 1 10 aco corol accordingly hugly the dairy world his has yet to be taught that the extensive use ase of grain is not correct economically that thai a large quantity of a mixture of roots with hay fodder is both economical and safe for cows and that possibly there if is better health with roots though a slight interior inferior quality of milk remembering at the same ti time me that we have to wait further farther tests as this is only our first systematically conducted one another consideration is that on the same area aland the root crop can be made much more mere prolific than the grain crop a and n d thus root raising and feeding for dairy purposes must be much more profitable than dependence upon grain people who keep cows and who are not engaged in farming will do to pay att attention antion to these tests and Andi if five we could prevail upon those W who ho make butter batter tor for the market to pattern after the metho methods ds to in use where a pure and untainted article is supplied for the table we should feel that our efforts in the direction of the dairy were not altogether in vain |