In the old days, large quantities of roots and straw, with a small amount of oil cake, were sufficient to enable cattle to fatten slowly and cows to milk tolerably well. There seems little doubt that diary stock fed on these lines lived longer and reproduced with greater regularity than they do now. If the winter cows in milk lost some condition, they
Grass came, Sey quickly when the' spring Keeping the Balance In the coming year we shall be producing a much larger quantity of straw, and on many farms it will be utilized for feeding. A diet consisting largely of straw needs the corrective of a large root supply and if the present head of livestock is to be maintained, increased cereal acreages, especially on stock farms, must be balanced by an increased acreage of root crops such as marigolds or swedes. There is no other crop like marigolds that will produce from 17 to 80 tons per acre.
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