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VOL. LX.
INDIANAPOLIS, SEPT. 2, 1905.
NO. 35
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HOW SHOULD THE FARMER PROCEED IN
ORDER TO GET THE GREATEST
POSSIBLE VALUE OUT OF HIS
CORN CROP.
Feed All on the Farm.
1st Premium.—Feed it. Feed it, nnd
commence immediately. If your horses
nre worked down poor, I never found any
feed better thnn green eorn when in full
roasting ear. Cut the stalks at the ground
and feed all together; one stalk is enough
to commence ou, and increase to two or
three twice a day making up the balance
of the ration with dry feed. It your
horses are at rest you may feed more liberally and with salt aud wood ashes, without fear of colic. If you have some cattle
Hint nre to go into market this fall or winter whether your pasture is short or not,
cut corn, haul out nnd feed liberally aud
you will get good pay for it.
Even if I had hundreds of bushels of
o'd corn I always commence to cut and
feed my hogs new corn as soon as it is in
full roasting ear, for it seems to fill them
full of tbe necessary fluids to make them
fatten well.
Feed everything that will eat corn, and
partake liberally of it yourself while it is
full of milk. Cut off the cob and put in
stone jars with plenty of salt, ami you
can have corn all winter; can up and dry
it, if you like it better that way than salted.
By feeding corn while it is green we
save the stnlk and blades; even the hogs
chew the stalk to get the sugar, and you
know what sugar means iir fattening.
The men and women of to-day, who are
upwards of seventy years old, know well
what hog and hominy did for them in the
laborious work of ridding central Indiana
of its massive growth of timber. If we
had lived as many do now, on scanty
knicknacks, we would have frozen to
death with our scanty clothing; so corn
was both food nnd clothing to the pioneers, and I think thnt we would have
fewer dyFpeptics to-day if we ate more
torn in its various forms.
It is claimed that fully one-half of the
feed value of our corn is in the stalk
after the ear is taken off, if rightly
handled. Fill up your silo and cut the
rest to fodder; cut or shred your fodder
aud feed, and your corn with it in the
shape of meal. I believe the farmer
can make most of his corn crop by feeding rather than by hauling direct to market. My theory and practice is to feed
all I raise on the farm. C.
Marion Co.
length, ami cut enough at a lime to feed
my cattle (13 head) 10 days to two weeks;
by cutting the feed this way the cattle
cat everything clean but the buttons or
short corn stalks, and these arc good,
mixed   with   straw   for   bedding. The
mangers are easily cleaned out, and one
dees not ha te tlie trouble with the stalks
oue would have if he had to handle them
whole. It does not take as much roughness for cattle if it is cut for them, and
even the horses relish a dinner of cut fodder.
I separate the nubbins from the large
corn and hnve them ground into corn and
Study tbe Secret of Grain Feeding.
3d Premium.—The most promising corn
crop iu the history of the corn growing
region is now in sight, and the question
to the farmer is how to proceed in order
to got the greatest possible value out of
it.
I believe in feeding the grain on the
farm. Hight now is the time to plan
for an al'.-ihe-ycar business and secure
plenty of young hogs, steers and sheep
lor   winter   feeding. The   most   pros
perous farmers never stop. They grow
crops in the summer and make them into
beef,    pork and mutton iu the winter.    .V
Cut the Fodder With Power.
2d Premium.—The farmer should begin
with his corn crop as soon ns it is ready
to cut up or top, ns he chooses to do it.
This work should begin as soon ns the
coin stover is dry enough to shock, to
get the greatest value out of the blades
and stalks. Do not begin on green corn
and do not let it get real dry, as in
cither case it loses part of its fooVl value.
As soon as the fodder is cured, if the
corn has been cut up, and dry enough to
garner, the corn should be husked out,
sorted, nnd hauled at once to a crib, made
for that purpose, and the fodder should be
placed in the barn or some other place
where it may be kept dry. The next
pomt to consider is the feeding. I have
a horse power and large cutting box, I
cnt  the   fodder  about  2  to 3  inches  in
Quoaj ixxxtX _\xxsxozx.
We hnve n nice musk-melon patch, and
tliere are a few vines stnrting to die. Do
you know nny remedies for it? Some of
our neighbors hnve large patches, on
which nearly all the vines are dead.
Southport, N. W.
—Probably it is the work of a small
white worm that has bored its way into
the vines near tlie root, ns the squash
vine borer does. It is proibably too late
to light that pest now, us they are nlrendy
inside the vinos nnd out of sight Spraying the vinos, before the eggs were laid,
with coal oil emulsion and whale oil soap,-
would have kept the parent insect from
laying its eggs. Split open a vine, that
is affected, lengthwise, with a knife blade,
and look carefully for the worm.
Fine Bank Barn on Farm of  K. I.. Phillips,    Judson,    Ind.
cob meal, which is a splendid flesh producing food, and is a very good butter-fat
producer, bnt I usually mix half ship-
stuff or ground oats with the meal for
my dairy cows.
The corn shredder is in use extensively
around here for saving the food value of
the corn fodder. I would use it too if
I had no power and box of my own, but
I like cutting fodder with box and power
best, on account of the sharp splints the
fhrodder makes out of the corn stalks;
these are liable to puncture the cattle's
stomachs nnd cause death. Then by having the box and power I can make very
fair wages cutting my own feed on daya
I could not make much at anything else,
rnd I have my large ears of corn to store
away, without being a fifth or a fourth
shelled.
There is more value derived from the
grain and fodder by feeding it on tlie
farm than by selling it; the feeding may
br to any stock that pays the farmer best
for its feeding. This depends on where
the farmer is located; for some, hogs pay
the most pro6t, while for others the hog
falls behind and cattle come first; it depends on the market for the farmer. Sheep
rlways pay good value for the fodder nnd
grain they cat, but what ever kind of
stoclc is k'-pt it pays better to feed the
crop on the farm, as all the food value
taken from the soil in raising the crop is
returned with interest in the manure the
cattle make ou the farm, where if tho
crop was sold, tlie farm would be robbed
of that much plant food. K.
Floyd Co.
good sized herd, carefully fed and protected from the winds and rains, will furnish
profitable employment throughout the
winter season, while at tlie same time
furnishing an excellent market for your
crops. Make a study of the business of
feeding. This  is   the   secret  of   grain
feeding all the way through, to know
what von are doing and know that you
are doing it right. It is something that
has to be learned. It is not something
that can be done simply because some
other man has done it. You have to
know how before you can do it nnd make
money nil the time. Successful farming
docs not consist in merely raising the
Inrgost crops on a given acroage of land.
Good judgment in buying and soiling is ns
essential as good judgment in fertilization
and cultivation.
To got the most value from the corn
crop the fodder should be shredded. In
this neighborhood we consider tlie shredder, one of the best things we have to
help ns take cur stock through the winter,
in saving us the untold exposure of the
old way of handling our fodder.-
Kosciusko Co. M. A. M.
Please answer a few questions through
your vnluaJlle paper. 1st. Which is
the best commercial fertilizer for potatoes
on ground that lacks nothing but a good
clover crop to plow under? but haven't
got it, nor stable manure. 2d. Can
any reader give information about the
li-nd in South Carolina between Charlestown antl the ocean. In regard to fertility and healthfulness?
Allen Co.     - A. J. S.
—You should use a fertilizer containing
a large proportion of potash. Any dealer
can tell you the best brand for the purpose. Salt, ashes and bone dust are
all valuable fertilizers for potatoes.
Please state through the columns of
your paper, the value of chestnut posts
as compared with white cedar, red cedar
and white oak, and their durability.
—Ited cedar is more durable than white
cedar. Chestnut lasts for generations
as rails, but we do not know how long it
lasts in the ground: better use cedar or
black locust, or cement. This latter
never  decays.
B. II. C, Anderson. The maple leaves
you send us sre covered with the scales
of the maple bark louse, or cottony maple
scale. Thoy weaken the trees, but rarely
km them.    Spray with coal oil emulsion.
Nc.
graft
Xo.
build
house
No.
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No.
class
490, Sept. 9—Tell how to bud and
fruits.    Give full particulars.
4-)7,    Sept.  16.—Explain  how    to
aud  ventilate  a  frost proof  warm
above ground.
4J-8, Sept 23.—Tell how to build a
;ce horse  and  how to  pack ice so
keop.
409. Sept 30.—Give plans of a first
ponltry house.
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FAHM I.IFE.
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Hampshire, in the blessed country, among
the hills, the rocks, the sheep, cows,
chickens, and all that pertains to farm
'Me. I love them all; love to read of
thom; think of them. Y'our premium articles are so good I think it must puzzle
the judge to decide which is best They
nearly all deserve first premiums, in my
judgment. Success to tlie Farmer, its
long-time editors and their successors.
May your mantle fall on worthy shoulders."
RODDED BUILDINGS SAFE.
Editors Indiana Funrer:
There have been many electrical storms
in this section of the state, aud many
losses from it, but none on rodded buildings. J. H. Biddle.
Remington.
The frnit farm of the McCaffrey Bros.,
north of I-ogansport, contains 800 peach
trees, 1,000 grape vines, 200 cherry trees
nnd 500 plum trees. The peach trees
will yield a good crop this season.