Show why ship grain to market dry farming congress service serviced 1 why should any dryland dry land 4 farmer ship his produce to market in the form of hay and grain there is but one correct answer answer to this question he do it yet the average western farmer of to day fails to do anything else As a matter of fact the practice of soiling selling wheat and corn hay and othir oth ir farm cro crops P s from the land year after year results in a gradual but constant loss of soil f fertility utility it costs no more to till so soil which will produce forty bushels of wheat por per acre than soil which is so worn that it will produce but twenty herein is a bunde mental principal of farming and one of the strongest argue ments in favor of live stock husbandry the feeding of farm animals not only means that 85 to 90 per cent of tile the fertilizing value of tile the crops fed can be returned to the land but also that such buell forage crops as alfalfa clover ami cow peas will be grown to accompany milo and corn the former crops draw from the air more nitrogen than is sold from the land in the shape of meat or milk products and the eifert is to build up instead of to tear down every farm should be a factory dividends depend upon the cost of marketing live stock provides a home market for the crops grown feeding live stock is a means of condensing a product to about one eighth of its original weight seven pounds out of every eight are thereby marketed on the farm reducing the freight charges for transporting grain by 87 12 1 2 per cent and doing away with the usual haul to the local market or elevator the utilization of waste roughage the seasonal distribution of labor are the additional points for the western farmer to consider when mapping his bis course to farm success |