Show corn fodder waste and md utility from fai infra iners review perhaps the most stupendous waste aste occurring en on the american farm today to day la Is that rf t the corn fodder crop something like W H ton tons of corn fodder are annually produced on the SO 80 to 90 million acres normally planted to corn in the united in the corn belt of the middle nest beet where about TS 75 per cent of all the corn ot of the country Is a grown there Is a pro dilious and profligate waste aste ot of this foodstuff in this saine section alu able land Is annually asni for the production of roughness sic as timothy millet folghum etc while acres of corn fodder are tire nl lovel to go to waste in missouri it la is fife erfe to estimate that mat something eo like 7 tons of corn fodder are grown la in the average yi biar ar certainly three and a ball half million ton tor i or one half ot of all that la Is produced Is wasted the av ay hay bay crop of the state ie Is scarcely more than 3 tons anil anti Is 1 esti mated to be worth on the farm over 20 a large proportion of this hay bay Is 19 timothy a materiel mater lil il that supplies Hupp lles the same class of nutrients for our stock that Is found in fix corn fodder the question therefore as to whether this fodder can be used as a substitute for any considerable amount ot of hay Is especially impost nt to every grain grower and stork stock man la in the middle west even la in this year nf of plenty the reeding eding value of fodder care ful experiments show that more than one third of all the digestible ma bertal contal contained ned in the entire corn plant Is found in the fodder and that less than two thirds Is concentrated in the grain clearly no one Is justi fled bed in permitting the waste of one third of the crop that he has been at the pains of growing Irrow lag it has been further shown that a ton of corn fodder contains con taini ni practically the same number of pounds of digest digesti hie ble material as does a ton of timothy it doea does not follow how however ever that as an ration tor or stock it 1 Is as vat 1 bable as timothy ton for ton since it Is not to palatable rala table and not so corn plemely eaten and that the stock will not rat oat enough of it to make profitable gain gains the missouri experiment sta tion hag has been studying this problem durin the list seen se en years with a i view to ascertaining tho the best method of treating corn fodder and the best combination combinations with other foode foods in or der to increase ltv feeding value these experiments clearly show thit yearling steers may be wintered ob or whole fodder from irvin which all the were carefully carf fully removed without grain train or other food and neither gain cor nor lose in weight that similar teera steers when fed all the bright timothy bay they boull cat eat and without grain iraln will make a slight gain more afore pounds of fodder bodd r than of timothy were necessary to winter cattle of thi this cliss eliss the coarser portions of this stalk amounting usually to be tween thirty and forty per cent of the whole weight of the fodder was as refused by the cattle all things con si eldered dered it 1 14 safe to say that rhen then fed fell alone a ton of corn fodder has something like halt the feeding value 0 of timothy hay that it is not grod business polac however to winter cattle in this way in tha the ordinary season will ba acL ted without macint mantil lf J waters university of missouri water for hogs owing to their fatty makeup make up the hog buffers most of all the domestic doi dow estic anim animals aal nial alq when deprival dep rivel 1 of water la in 1 order that the may do their best they must have pure water not once or twice a it day but all the time can bet best be proved where there 1 is not running water by having a square trough to which Is 1 fitted a float calve at one end this trough should not be oser tea ten inches high and should bo protected by nailing slats saros 4 to keep the bogs hogs from getting in and the water this th a trough troug h gh should 0 ill d be ba fed by a pipe kail ing from a rese reservoir moir or large tani tan L 1 have tried a great many of the w waterlog a teri n g devices d evic e 4 a attached to a tank or barrel ind find and that while they will work for a time sooner or later they gave trouble and of late I 1 have discarded them and use a float valve which Is albuya la in order it pays p tys beet best to have the float made of copper it will III not rust while a tin one will ani boon soon lak leak it you have never hal ha l this or a similar nillar ei device for watering mat erIng your bogs get one next sea eon son and you will be convinced that it pays pay for it elf many times over during one acason beside saying a whole lot of bard hard work ork I 1 would rather be looking oer the fence watching them eat than lugging water when a pipe that costa costs but a few dollar dollaris can carry it easier and better when once set to work besides beside d doing the work better tha than a I 1 could r r ably sibly do it IL it g ties 1 me time to attilid to some of their other wanta wants that I 1 could not possibly attend to had I 1 to carry all III the water that they require forest henry how to improve a hog H the only wy way to improve the razor back hog of 0 texas Is to to e cross ross him with a railroad train he ile thea thell becomes a fine berkshire or poland china and nd it the train 1 ii it left on the track the corn com pany pa me tor for him at the rate of 1 i A pound and all 11 II the company sets is the mournful pleasure of shoveling iho ng hie ills remains ott oft the track coburn in hoard s dairyman |