THE MAN ON THE LAND.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 722, 11 April 1922, Page 8

THE MAN ON THE LAND.

THE NEWEST FRIESIAN CHAMPION COW.'

De Kol Plus Segis Dixie, the new world champion cowin official classes with her record of 32,632.31bs of milk and 1151.481bs butter-fat made in 365 consecutive days under strict Government supervision, has shown that she is a wonderful! cow. And one of the factors that made possible this wonderful record bv this wonderful cow was h e r wonderful appetite.—“ Hoard’s Datryman.” PLANT FOOD LOST IN

MANURE,

A farmer writes manure out and scatter it against a hillside is there not danger that the plant food wilii wash away?” Little danger unless the manure is applied when there is ice over the ground. One of our stations caught the coloured water after it had run only a few feet from the manure pile and they found that this liquid, though highly coloured, contained by a trace of plant food. The mineral elements of plant food become, fixed in the soil at or near the point of contact with the soil—a very fortunate provii/cn of nature indeed.

-“If I haul my

SELF-FEEDER FOR DAIRY COWS

In a recent issue of the “Journal of Dairy Science,” Mr \V. B. Neve ns presents feeding and growth records from, birth to six months of age of nine Holstein calves raised in separate stalls at the Nebraska Experiment Station. Skim-milk was gradually substituted for whole milk after three weeks, and given throughout the experiment, the maximum ration being 161'hs. Dry feed was given as soon as .the calves would eat it. Lucerne hay and a grain mixture were kept constantly in five of the stalls, while the remaining calves were fed twice a day on all lucerne hay and grain they wofilu clean up. The self-fed calves averaged 971bs at birth and gained 393.41bs per head ‘in six months. The birth weight of the hand-fed averaged. 81. Jibs and theih gain 283.51b5. Per lb of the g'-ain. the self-fed group consumed 2.59'bs of digestible nutrients and the hand-fed group 2.471bs but the grain mixture in the two-’cases was ci' ,7clent. The reight at withers,

width at hip, and heart girth were greater in the self-led ca-.ves. No digestive disturbances weieexpevineced, qnd it: is conclu red that self-feeding should be curiously oonsldered as a labour-saving device in calf-feeding.