Show LIVE LIVESTOCK STOCK FARMING MEANS BETTER SOIL ay 41 0 CATTLE ON THE FARM MEAN RIG AND utilization by C M carnall CAR nOLL livestock live stock farming is diversified farming and calls for a system of crop rotation N v I 1 ath th legumes it returns fertility to the sll sell it adds interest to the work of the young people and finally it Is the best insurance of 0 an income each farmer should make a business of growing ills his own beet beef as well 6 ell as his own vegetables also his own protein feed for his stock and stop buying bran cottonseed meal and other high priced protein feeds the dairy business too calls for intellectual tel activity such exercise Is good tor for the boys and the girls the dairy business evens up things on the farm it gives steady employment it Is a cash busin business esq A roan feels independent when villen he knows that his income Is s steady dairying builds up the farm it requires fewer acres and consequently leads to more neighbors them Is always an air of 0 prosperity about ft a well handled bundled dairy farm the dalry dairy business adds permanency to the community the success of the man engage in it depends upon keeping milk ro records cords it costs but little and returns a hundredfold there are good cows and poor cows A farmer should find out which are the poor cows and naich ire are the good ones this can be ilone done by marking down what they produce each day and using the babcock test milk the lie good cows and sell the poor ones for beef the feeding of crops and returning HER SOILS AND BETTEA BET TEA CROPS OF ALL ROUGHAGE the manure to the land to Is a very im lu port atit means of 0 maintaining the nitrogen supply as well HS the supply ol 01 I 1 other plant food elements one of the most valuable assets of 8 farm Is the manure produced upon it it represents fertility which has bees been dram draft n f from roin the soll soil by crops and dudl be returned to it it if productiveness to la to be maintained it not only adds to the store of plant food la in the tha soil by returning a large per cent of the ri nitrogen phosphorus and potash removed by crops but it also renders the th native plant food of the soil oil more available it adds humus to the soil improves its physical condition makes it warmer and enabled it to and retain more moisture no substitute at present known to t capable of completely filling the place of farm manure notwithstanding its great value there Is probably no material on the farm in velch so great and needless waste occurs it Is a common sight in almost any section to see stables and feed lots situated upon the bank of a stream or ditch where the most valuable portion of the ma nure will pass into the stream there is no soil so fertile that jim lt producing power cannot be eventually reduced by continued cro cropping plAng which takes away fertility and returns nothing it must tie be understood that every crop whatever it may bo be removes remove from the soil plant food which must be ba returned ye Xe turned in some manner wry j v z y f f i v icv i fv V INS V 1 7 4 si tw i HOGS MUST BE FED LIBERALLY AND GIVEN PLENTY OF EXERCISE TO RETURN substantial PROFITS |