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Show TIPS ON FARMING (U. S. Dept. of Agriculture) Pit or underground trench silos are considered the most economical means of storing silage on ranges in the Southwest. The feed is put in a trench and covered with earth to a depth of about 2 feet. Silage stored in this way will keep for several years without with-out deterioration. If lower grades of beef feeder cattle cat-tle are to be purchased for immediate immedi-ate fattening in dry lot, the best time to buy them is early in the fall, in order to get them marketed late in the winter or early in the spring. The lower grades usually reach their peak prices before June. Do not select potatoes from plants, even when apparently healthy, if they have been grown in the same field with, or in fields adjacent to, plants affected with mosaic, spindle-tuber, or related diseases, says the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.Infected tubers can not be distinguished from healthy ones. Apparently healthy hills may produce plants with a large percentage percent-age of disease the following year. Although liberal grain feeding to dairy cows results in greater milk production, investigations carried on by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture show that is usually pays to feed large quantities of grain only in dairies dair-ies obtaining a high price 'for their products. At the dairy experiment farm at Beltsville, Mil., records were kept on 23 cows for periods ranging from DO to 150 days. These cows were divided into two groups, one group being fed the amount required as determined from the feeding standards; stan-dards; the other from 2 to 4 pounds of grain per cow a day more than the other group. With grain at $10 a ton, it was found that the extra milk resulting re-sulting from the heavier grain feedings feed-ings cost from 40 to 80 a gallon, an amount somewhat in excess of tho usual us-ual selling pric. |
