The Southwest Farmer from Wichita, Kansas • 13

TPHiiifiPj-'n itounWfc.iiV,ji.i.i THE SOUTHWEST PARMER AS DOII'T EXPECT MIRACLES SILAGE IS ALL RIGHT IN ITS PROPER PLACE. promising trees that might come to notice. The conditions are generally promising for all fruits and berries except peaches. if the correspondent has packed it in tightly, so that it has not spoiled, it probably is good enough to cause the production of large amounts of milk when milk forming materials are furnished in the hay or grain ration. made under such conditions as prevail in the majority of creameries can not be said to be wholesome and free from danger to human health.

Dr. Melvin believes that a proper law, well enforced, -would remove nearly all of the bad conditions now existing. A Federal law would, in his opinion, of course apply only to products made for interstate or export shipment or to establishments engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. Like Everything Else It Must Be Used Intelligently It Is Then a Fine Feed. FEDERAL INSPECTION OF DAIRY PRODUCTS NECESSARY.

DISCUSSED ORCHARD PROBLEMS Sedgwick County Horticultural Society Had Good Meeting. WHY LIVING IS HIGHER. The increase in the production of gold during the last ten years has been greater than in the 400 years preceding, it is said financiers, and this remarkable increase is declared to be the cause of the unusual increase in the cost of living. A gold dollar costs no more than 62 cents, as compared with 20 years ago, hence its reduced purchasing power; it is not that the necessities of life are worth more than in former years, but that our money is worth less; it takes more of it to buy the same amount of food, clothing, etc. A.

D. Melvin, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, recently made the statement that there is need of inspecting dairy products, especially cream and butter, and supervising their shipment. Even without inspection many creameries, he said, maintain a good standard of sanitation and produce high-grade, wholesome butter, but this can not be said of creameries in general. Cream is frequently shipped great distances to creameries to be made into butter and is often received in such a filthy and putrid slate as to be thoroughly unfit to enter into the composition of a food product. Investigations have shown that 61 per cent out of 1,554 lots of cream received at creameries and buying stations was of third grade that is, dirty, decomposed or very sour; that 94.5 per cent of 715 creameries, investigated, were insanitary to a greater or less degree; and that 72.6 per cent of these creameries did not pasteurize the milk so as to destroy any disease germs that might be As disease-producing germs are known to survive for long periods in butter made from unpasteurized cream, and as butter is eaten i in the raw state, this product when The lawyer, doctor, merchant or blacksmith dreads having another of his kind move into the place, especially if the new-comer excels in his business.

The farmer welcomes other good and his farm is made more valuable by their coming. Doctors disagree except as to the size of the bill. I have a five-year-old cow whicn for the last two years has always given us plenty of milk. The last two winters I have fed her corn fodder, hay and oats, but this winter I have been feeding silage, hay and corn fodder. She has gone dry on me but is in good flesh.

All of the ether cows we are milking are not holding up well. This is my first experience with a silo, and if this is the way it serves the cows, I am in the hope that it may be my last experience. The above is the complaint of a Minnesota farmer. The cause of his trouble is very evident. Some people seem to think that silage is like patent medicines wrhich we see advertised for their ability to make fat people thin and thin people fat, says Wallaces Farmer in commenting on this writers experience, but silage is not a patent medicine.

It is useful only for certain purposes. All dairymen should understand that silage is not, in the true sense of the word, a milk-building feed. On the contrary, it is a fat-forming feed. But where did silage get its splendid reputation. Silage, because it is succulent and tastes to the cows much like pasture, stimulates the milk flow and keeps the cows digestive system in first-class condition.

But mark this: Silage will not cause any cow to produce an abundance of milk if there is not in her hay or grain ration an abundance of milk forming material. Since silage is lacking in milk forming material, it is especially necessary that either the grain or the hay ration be rich in this essential substance. Ordinary hay and corn fodder are both similar to silage, being poor in milk forming material. No cow will long produce an abundance of milk on the ration this man is feeding. It is an utter impossibility.

Asking the cows to make milk when there is not enough milk forming material in the ration is like asking a shoemaker to make shoes when he has no leather. If the correspondent wishes to get an abundance of milk from his cows, he must feed, In addition to silage, either some such hay as alfalfa or clover, or a grain feed such as cottonseed meal, oil meal or bran. We suggest that he try feeding in connection with his silage, hay and fodder ration, a grain mixture of 250 pounds of corn meal, 250 pounds of cottonseed meal, 100 pounds of oats, and GO pounds of bran. Of this mixture, about one pound should be fed for every three or four pounds of milk produced. Of course, now that his cows have gone down in their milk flow, it will be hard to bring them back, but we think that if he furnishes milk producing material, they will increase considerably In their milk flow.

There is a chance that the silage is not of first-class quality, but Orchard interests of the Arkansas Valley from the Wichita district to the Oklahoma line were represented at the large meeting of the Sedgwick County Horticultural Society at the court house in Wichita Thursday, Feb. 6. The consensus of opinion at the outset was that peach buds were practically all destroyed by the excessive cold of the early part of January, following a long period of comparatively mild weather. The selection and planting of nursery stock brought out a wide discussion as to the causes of the death of many young trees and the sickening and destruction of many old trees during the past several years. Mr.

Richard Wilson declared the fumigation of nursery stock was largely to blame. Mr. H. J. Hansen, president of the Society, contended that much of the loss was due to lack of attention to details of planting and then neglect afterwards.

Inattention to proper methods of intensive horticulture kills more trees than fumigation, although the use of strong chemicals for the eradication of San Jose scale and other pests can and does cause some damage when fumigation is practiced without extreme care. The largest percentage of loss, however, is due to lack of proper care. A ton of weeds in the orchard will deprive the trees of nearly 500 tons of water that should go to making good fruit trees and desirable fruit, hence a good many runty apples and other fruits. Mr. E.

G. Hoover, of the Hoover orchards, probably the most progressive fruit grower in the state, read a timely paper on the kinds of spray preparations to be used for scale, codling moth, canker worms and other insects that cause much of the expense in the development of marketable fruits. If the peo ple of Wichita and other fruit buying districts want runty, wormy fruit, then the thing to do is to encourage neglect of orchards by not spraying. The loss to birds, bees and humans is infinitesimal compared with the good results. A man would have to eat a bushel of apples at a sitting to be even inconvenienced, if at all.

An expert chemist from a spray mixture company explained the chemical action of lime-sulphur, arsenate of lead and Bordeaux mixture, with their poisoning and adhesive qualities. Mr. W. F. Henreich, of Winfield, explained the new system of pedigreed horticulture, in which a record of the history of nursery stock from planting to fruition is kept, and invited the co-operation of all growers in the development of some of the older varieties of good fruits, as well as any Get our Free booklet on Blood Poison, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Eczema, Scrofula, Liver and Stomach Troubles.

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