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Show FEED QUESTION SERIOUS WITH BENSON WARD Many Causes Contributing to The Shortage of Hay An Experience Ex-perience Related. Denson, Jan. 24. Tho deep snow, the unusually cold weather we havo had thus far this winter and the poor crop of alfalfa last season, duo to frost and tho weevil, tho question of feed Is norlous with farmers and dairymen. What to do to winter our animals through until spring Is a question hard to answer. The high price of feedstufts Is not so Important Import-ant as tho dimculty of securing hay oven at tho high price. Tho writer writ-er remembers a similar condition a good many years ago when his father fath-er had ten cows freshen along In March and the foro part of April, and tho snow was deep on tho ground oven until tho latter part of April, and as his hay was almost gone and straw could not bo obtained, obtain-ed, father was getting very anxious, until tho thought occurred to him that as ho had plenty of wheat, ho would havo his grain chopped and try his cows with grain. At first they did not tako the grain very readily but in a 3hort tlmo they nto with groat relish. Every morning and evening tho quantity of grain for a feed was put In a barrell and hot water poured over It and each v ,4 cow was given a in qun,rt buckot or O "filop," as father called It, and with a llttlo strnk taken oft an old shed, tho cows kept up In their milk flow and In tholr flesh. They were so gaunt, however, that father called thorn his raco horses and to see them run around sometimes with their tails In tho air ono would think they wore rightly named. I r'elato this circumstance as a suggestion to dalrymon who aro distressed as fa-thor fa-thor was. With very llttlo roughage, horses can get along nlcoly by giving them a good supply of grain, which pays well to do as nothing Is gained by starving ono'a animals, and furthor-nioro furthor-nioro It Is vory wrong for a person to starve his animals. Tho pulp which wo aro getting this winter is a groat help In tho feeding of our nnlmals. In connection connec-tion with tho pulp It looks llko wo may find It very necessary to havo silos in order to koop up our dairy Interests, which wo cannot afford to neglect. Speaking of dairy Interests, tho peoplo of Wollsvlllo aro to bo commended for what thoy aro doing along this line, as well as tho peoplo peo-plo of Richmond. The M. I. Associations of Benson wore favored last Sunday evening In Jiavlng L. U. Humphorys, Mrs. Mary Johnson and Miss Carlson of tho Stako board of tho M. I. A. attend tholr meeting and glvo valuable Instructions In-structions nlong tho lines of mutual Improvement work. Wo were In hopes that tho measles had loft our ward but wo lo.iru that 1 there aro now several casts In Wost Benson. "Grandma" Sarah G. Reese has not boon as woll of lato as usual. She Is now staying with her bon and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reoso, whero alio receives tho boat of attention. at-tention. ,. Bishop Howard Heeso has rccover- - 'Ilf) e1 from a BUOrt uut 8QVoro attaclc ot " B lagrlppc. I II. J. Clark, Jr., a nophow of M. I H. Itogora, was down from St. Anth- ouy recently, and bought a car of 1 heifers from Chas. A. Rocso. Mr. 1 Clark and his- father deal qulta ox- I tonslvoly In livestock. Hyrum Clark I was a resident of Benson tot sevoral I years and when ho loft wo lost a 1 good cltlzon. |