Show live stock saves labor in harvesting of crops I 1 thousands of corn belt farmers have employed hogs bogs as corn buskers and cattle and sheep have also done some som harvesting of crops at very low cost the huge bulk of our crops however are still laboriously harvested stored at great expense se and then fed to ant trials taala at the cost of still more labor A short time ago we found a farmer who has developed the idea of having the live stock do the harvesting to the point at which he be declares that he be will never husk any corn and that he be will never haul baul out any manure says the indiana farmers guide ills his plan involves the harvesting of every possible crop by the animals themselves and the feeding of all stock in the fields the stock runs out the year around alfalfa hay bay Is stacked in small ricks and fed to cattle tle sheep and hogs bogs right on the field not only does this plan save labor but it also results in the maximum amount of fertility being returned to the soil and it maintains the 11 live va stock under conditi conditions ors which are most conducive to health and vigor thus it bears rather heavily on three of the major problems of present day farming fanning |