Lecture Chart Books Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...fail in impoverishment of the land. Live-stock farming is diversified farming and calls for a system of crop rotation. It returns fertility to the soil, adds interest to the work of the people living on the farms, and finally is the best insurance of an income. Every farmer should make a business of growing his own beef and pork as well as his own vegetables. He should grow his own protein feed for his stock, and stop buying bran, cottonseed meal, and other highpriced protein feeds. The purpose of this publication is to show the advantages of live-stock farming. CHART I LIVE STOCK ON THE FARM Live Stock Means Silos, Alfalfa, Clover and Rotation of Crops--Utilizing Cheap Rufage--Richer Land and Better Crops--Feeding the Crops and Saving Fertility--Less Washing of Soil--Greater Profits--Living on the Farm. Live stock on every farm means more silos, to preserve the green summer crops for winter feed. It means more legume crops such as alfalfa, clovers, soy beans, etc. It means marketing the crops through live stock; in other words, selling the crops in the form of beef, pork, and mutton, and saving the fertility in farm manures. Live stock utilizes cheap rufage, such as corn stover, fodder, and straw which usually go to waste. There are millions of dollars worth of straw and cornstalks burned and otherwise wasted in the Corn Belt every year. The. farmer who has live stock on his farm must grow grain, as well as clovers, grasses, and other crops adapted to his soil and climate. The one-crop system in the end means poor soil and poor people. In the great wheat fields in the West and Northwest, very few of the farmers live upon their farms. They rent out their lands, live in the town and go out to the farms in the summer and back to town in the winter. In the liv...