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Show Questions of the Feed Lot fieftnor Htrbtrt W. Mumfori feed Grain to Cows on Pasture? t(r O roVS on good pasture nrd to he JL fed grain or concentrate o mn kind'." Profs-or I'nixT sajn that when cow ar ctl k''"'d p.:ttilv they hhovild rit need to b feil uralri unb ss prolurln)f over t w nty-tlve p. iind-t f milk i" r day, or unlei they ri !n thin cindltlin anl It Ij dnlred lo Incren t their rte.sh. Tli" nmmitil of trralu that lln-y fhoul 1 be f. 1 will (fc p nd upon the amount of milk t?i urc pr.nluclnc above IhK Cmvi .lVHiiC hlt.V ix'iinds or nire M r day i-an-rit tr t the re.piln d ntiirl'ntK to irodnce ihli frcin picture ahne. The atne will apply aft.r you ar.. fe.-Jlrn: fodder corn the I -a -1 of .nKu-t. If fh" corn planted thick so th.'.t H doca noi contain much Kr.iln. Easy Way to Maintain Soil IT WOULD .eem that the cifdest and mot K'fs'kl pro. .dure In developing a perm i-t i-t nt agriculture would be to work out a vark-ly of i-yMtirm of live nto.-k huxbandry which would retain ils mucli us possible of the f. rtllitv r tuoved In cropping. Hiippl-m- nllrn; whatever lark of fertility there may b- by the purrliax of nil-eral fertlll-'T?, or the purchtiKo for feeding purposes of th lircc Mtpflles of Rraln produced and bound to be produced by pr.iln farmers. ThH buy-nz buy-nz f" fraln to feed need not b done with the thought of building ur the htock f.rmer'fi farm at the expense of their netKhbors. but in a public-spirited and economic Hene assist In mtiklnj; a pood market for tho Krain produced pro-duced by thone who for rsonal reafons pre-tr pre-tr lo rem-iln craln farmers, who do not need the fertility In the crops they sell bc--aiite they m.y follow a carefully plonnM and sclentltUally sound system of grain fann-hiK fann-hiK of permanent agriculture without llv mock. Uxact stntlfitlcs showlnp the amount of farm products shipped out of Illinois and those used for manufacturing purposes ar not available. It I believed, however, that the ji mount of corn reserved on tho farms for ferdlng purposes would fall connlderably short of 50 per cent of the total production of the state. Illinois produced In 130$ approximately ap-proximately 200,000.000 bushels of corn. Assuming: As-suming: that one-half of thla la shipped off our Illinois fnrms, we. wish to call attention to tho fact that tho 130,000,000 bushels si shipped would fatten each year over 2.500,001 strers. or their equivalent In other live stock, and that the fertilizer produced by this feeding feed-ing would Increase tho annual possible production pro-duction of the state J15.000.000. Hut It Is ar gued that Illinois Is primarily a grain-grow big section and that its agricultural develop mer.t lies along grain-growing lines. Un doubtedly grain growing Is to be a leading and permanent branch of tho agricultural en deavor of the state, but thern are several systems of live stock farming that are no! Incompatible with gTaln growing and thai are nocei5.iry for Its permanent success. 1 believe the time will coma when It will b considered bnd economics to transport numberless num-berless carloads and shiploads of grain ti far distant lands for feeding purposes. II may be even practically impossible for transportation trans-portation companies to handle such trafHc. Already railroads are having difficulty f m handling the present volume of business. Tl.f necessity of keeping tho cost of foods wlthlrt reach of the masses that Is. at such a level that the laboring man can be well nourished and highly efllclent; will eventually demand that the distance between tho producer and consumer will be shortened. One statement will doubtless be nu(Tlclenf to Illustrate, the point. In most, perhaps all Kuropean countries foodstuffs are offered consumers at a price which Is notlceablj loser to the price which the producer rc reives than )s the case In this country. Ther uro some legitimate reasons perhaps to ac count for part of the discrepancy, but by n means all of it. Professor Herbert Mumfor4 |