Show f w I TIMELY HINTS i TS I IfOR fOR FARMERS I II Silage Cheapens Production I The lIu l experiment station ha has hasan hasan an experiment nt comparing the manu manu- of ot milk from grain and from froma a silage silage- ration It found that the grain ration when used co cost t 10 to produce th the IW IV pounds of ot milk mUk and Then hen silage was sul in that same ra raI I lion for lull the grain it reduced the price to US GS cents per pounds a a. t. t difference dif dlf- difference I I ference of 37 t. t cents Jt It also found that it cw cost t 2 22 tents cents to produce one pound I of butter fat tat in io the thc case of where grain Iu was Wb used C and only 13 cents cents' I where here silage wu was n as used to take the thc I II place of halt half that ration a difference I I I of 9 U cents cent n again ln The profit per cowper cow cowper per year where grain was used was I II I 2460 2400 and where silage was used O. O You will notice that it increased ed cd the profits from frow each individual In I that herd hercl 34 3 to cut the corn com and put I I it in the silo Progeny of Champion Cows COWl In a issue of the Farm and Fireside II appears I appears an nn article descriptive e of Bai Ba- Ba I Belle and several other cow cows i famous as champion milk mUk givers The i following is an interesting paragraph j I j I II I from the article I There Is one thing which will wUl strike Ithe j I the student of breeding with peculiar I significance That is the large proportion pro- pro portion of female progeny from these thesel l individuals kept under favorable con con- Bano llano tine Belle has haN given birth to three calves cal and nd all ha have hae e been leen r heifer calves Daisy Grace has fans given gl birth to three calves and andall all ha have c been heifers and and High Lawn Hartog II 1 r Kol lol has been the dam of four hue heifer calves Sorghum F For r Cows and Horses Sorghum hay bay properly cured Is a good roughage for tor horses and c cattle Care should be taken not to feed sorghum which Is moldy or decayed for it Is especially dangerous to horses Sweet sorghums are more palatable and therefore therefore there there- I I fore relished better by both horses and cattle than corn stover Sorghum seeds ground have been found to be worth about 10 per cent less than than corn corn for forI milk making purposes They may be beted I fed ted to horses whole but should be bc fed ted to the brood mare in limited quantities the same as corn for tor sorghum feed teed is rich in carbohydrates and lacks Licks in the element protein which is very important important important tant to the brood mare Hoards Hoard's Hoards Hoard's Dairy Dairy- man Frozen Cream and Butter Frozen cream will cause a brittle body and short grain Do not try to 1 thaw the cream too fast If it frozen very bad for this will make things still sWI worse Thaw ha w gradually and allow It to remain at a temperature of GO 00 degrees de de- grees for tor two or three hours and this will have a tendency to bring back I the elastic texture that the body once possessed before freezing |