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j| joultryPetsPigeans, TN A TWA T T Y] Plants Trees Seeds, N®.-QNNN N Q\\ \ \ 8 2 | Live Stock,Dairying, *‘\\\\\\\\\ §§ YV R o | P L §§\\\ Truck Gardening, N . \ § N\ X A N\ & N N\ \ \\\ \ o * | Horticulture Farm Lands A AL\ A § bt .t S L ANLJL N Southern Farm Information . ——_ 3WA e —SAmerican R \ | \ / S | Mills Crushing Legume as Sub stitute for Cotton Seed—Meal - Has Feed Value. oo 1 By C. B. WILLIAMS, | Chief Division of Agronomy, North Carolina Agricultural Experi- ‘ ment Station. | In order that any people may main tain their soils in the highest state of productivity in an economical way, it will be necessary that proper systems of crop rotation are used, and in these rotations it will be pecessary to bring _in leguminous crops at as frequent intervals as practicable. ,=~ One of the crops of this nature that may be used to good advantage is th_e soy bean. If properly handled, this crop may be used as the means ot_addlng to the produectivity of the soils as well as to increase the netre turns from the farm. Recently there hias been marked interest throughout the South in the growing of so¥y beans. This interest will undoubted ly lead many farmers of the South to greatly increase from year to year the acreage devoted to the growth of this legume. Since it appears that a new outlet for the beans has devel oped from the crushing of the seed by a number of oil mills, the farmer should feel assured that, for such seed as he may have to put on the n:arket, hereafter, better prices, as a general thing, may be expected. How ever, should good prices not prevail, because of-the high feeding value of the seed, the beans may be used for feeding to such live stock as may be on the farm. It is reasonable to suppose that within a few years the boll weevil will cover all the cotton-growing area of the South, and when it does there will probably be a material reduction in the production of cotton in this country. Let our people prepare for this day by growing some crop to take a part of the acreage that 1s now devoted to the growth of cotton. It has been found in the chief soy-bean growing centers of the South that where there beans are properly plant ed and cultivated farmers may ex pect something like two-thirds to three-fourths as large yields per acre as are secured from corn. The price per bushel for the beans has always been from 50 to 100 per cent greater than for the corn. | Good Summer Crop. | The soy bean is one of the w‘ryj best crops for sumffier growth in the South for soil-improving purposos.} for feed, for work-stock, and for oth- | er live stock that may be on the farm. 1t grows well under most of the con ditions obtaining in the South, and‘ farmers generally would find it to their advantage to grow more of this crop. It grows during the hot sum mer months, and may be removed from or plowed into the soil any time during the early fall in order for Um‘ jand to be put into a winter-growing crop like wheat, oats, rye, erimson clover, hairy vetch or a combination of these. The farming people have hardly be gun to appreciate the possibilities of properly handled soils, in the grm\u‘ ing of remunerative and restorative crops. This matter has been strik ingly brought to the attention of the people in the case of soy beans. This crop was introduced some thing like 35 years ago,.yet very lit tle was heard of it outside of very limited areas, until quite recently, when a campaign was begun to in duce the cotton oil mills to use beans for crushing purposes in the, same general way that cotton seed had been used for many years before, This campaign not only opened the eyes of the oil crushers to the possi bilities of the soy bean in a commer cial way, but of the farmers, also, to the great opportunities of this crop. The first commercial manufacture of soy-bean oil and meal from domes tie soy beans in the United States was started on December 13, 1915, by the Elizabeth City Oil and Fertilizer Company, of Elizabeth Gty INOC, From the start this mill operated night and day solely on soy beans until it had crushed fts supply of about 20,000 bushels. This mill was able to erush about twenty tons dur ing each 24 hours. The change from the manufacture of cotton-seed oil 10‘ sov-bean oil was made by them with-‘ out any expense as to extra machin ery and with but little expense for adjustment. The superintendent of the mill has estimated that the labor expenditure required in making the adjustment did not exceed $5. Soy-Bean Oil. One of the chief products secured in | the crushing of the beans is the oil. | \This oil has wide usefulness at the present time in the commercial world. The amount of oil in the beans amounts to from 17 to 20 per cent.| This oil, when expressed from good, | sound beans, is prgctically neutral, and about 95 per cent of it is saponi fiable. | In a bushel of Mammoth Yellow soy ' peans there are ordinarily contained about 11 pounds, or 1.42 gallons, of| ooil, weighing 7.72 pounds per gallon. The oil mills at present are able, by expression methods, to get out only 70 to 75 per cent of the total amount of oil contained in the beans. By the use of appropriate solvents, such as gasoline, practically all of the oil| might be removed. | At the present time the oil is used in this country chiefly in the manu-‘ facture of soaps, varnishes, nain?s_‘ enamels, linoleums, and wator-pmof-} ing materials. It has entered, also, to some extent in the manufacture of edible salad oil and butter substitutes. The unizasded ail may replace lin j v. ' | In Gulf States Cultivation of the ' \ Newly Tried Legume s Prov ing Profitable. | | e 1 By CHARLES A. WHITTLE, Georgia State College of Agriculture. A wonderful bean is almost liter ally spreading all over the Gulf States. It is the velvet bean. A few yvears ago it was unknown. But now it is becoming so well and favorably known that Gulf State farmers are giving it right of way. They plant it along with corn, and by the time the corn is ready to mature there is no corn to be seen. The only evidences of it are hummocks of velvet beans. Sometimes the beans are so heavy that the corn staiks go down under their weight and leave no visible sign of the corn's existence. On rich soil the vines ext@ad 50 feet or more. At the right time hogs go into the tangles of vegetation, composed of corn and velvet beans, literally root in. Their presence is noted only by tfhe agitation of the leaves and stalks above them. When the hogs are in duced to come out of the fields some weeks later, they are in prime condi tion for the butcher. Likewise beef and dairy cattle rustle in the corn bean patches and do well all winter with no other feed than that provided by corn, beans in the pod, fodder and stalks. The feeding value of the vel vet bean is quite high, and a commer cial business has been established with bean meal as a basis, the meal being made by grinding bean and pod together. Many of the Southern cotton farm ers regard the velvet bean a salva tion at a time when the boll weevil has made it impossible’to raise cotton very successfully. Some of the farm ers plant corn, velvet beans and pea nuts together, so that the hogs need not stop their ‘harvesting above ground, but may plow the ground while rooting for peanuts. Velvet beans and peanuts are le gumes, which to the intelligent farm er mean richer soil. Fach leguminous pliant is a little nitrogan factory for making nitrogen from the air just as the United States Governmeut is pro rosing to do with hydro-electric pow er plants principally for preparedness for war. seed oil completely, with quite satis factory results, in the manufacture of soft soaps: but it can only partially take the place of cotton-seed oil in making hard soaps. This is because the soap made from soy-bean oil is of a somewhat softer nature than that manufactured from cotton-seed oil. After hydrogenation the oil has a wider field of usefulness, and may, in sofne cases, entirely revlace llnseedl oil or other drying oils with very sat isfactory results. Feed and Fertilizer. The meal secured from crushing the beans is the most valuable product, and will have the widest usefulness. That secured from the crushing of vellow-colored beans is of a bright, vellow color. while that produced from the brown and dark-colored beans is of a somewhat darker shade. Meal, too, that has been treated with ordi nary solvents, employed for this pur pose to remove the oil, is of a bright er color than are those meals from which the oil has been removed by heating and pressure. The oil, how ever, secured by a solvent process would be of a darker color. The soy-bean cake sacured by ex pression methods has a pleasant taste, not unlike malted milk, and when ground into meal may be used, at the present time, chiefly for feed ing to live stock or for fertilizing purposes. The meal as a feed is high ly concentrated and nutritious, and all kinds of stock seem to relish it when fed to them properly. It should not be fed in large quantities for any great length of time, beCause of its highly concentrated nature. As a fer, tilizer it acts satisfactorily. Much & the meal produced by the oil mills of the State during the past year seems to have been sold, without any difficulty, to manufactuners for the making of mixed fertilizers. From the fertilizer standpoint, soy bean meal is richer in plant-food con stituents than. js cotton-seed meal. From available analysis, the meal, on an average, contains 7.48 per cent ni trogen, 1.4 per cent phosphoric acid, and 1.83 per cent potash. All these constituents contained in soy-bean meal should be in about as available form for use by crops as they are in cotton-seed meal. Based on these percentages, an exchange, purely from the fertilizer standpoint, of about 1,- 500 pounds of soy-bean meal of av erage composition for 2,000 pounds (33 1-3 bushels) of beans would be about equal in money value. Where the farmer makes an exchange, he shouldi however, secure at least e¢nough above this amount to cover well the cost of delivery of the beans to the mill. The meal, being a very concentrated product, should always sell as high, or higher, than cotton seed meal, as it 1s usually richer in protein than the latter. Prices Paid for Beans by the Oil Mills. The price which the mill men can pay for sov beans will be governed to a large extent by the prices they are able to secure for the soy-bean oil and meal. If these products bring good prices the mills ought to be in a po sition to pay the farmer a good price for his beans. During the past fall farmers generally were able to se cure from the oil mills from $1 to $1.15 per bushel. 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G R RCTS S N S e R W R o . e e : e e 0 ettt REPURISIONS EBET 3 % R R R R R R S R QS R AR s S S %\f R R O SRR @ ot PR N S Eea T L e R 4 3 B gR R R AR R § T BRI et e eR I N L R e e BRI RO ; e S M N S e G R e i T oiR e } ; e e SRR Se e il ee S s T ; AEr B e <3 "(\’2s’o“/ e ,&,fi\ AR @‘s&.&\ A Gty o G ) : BN AR BN R gR e R SO g A STR e et AR ! SN S R e S se R P N R Rl eR e ee e el S GR R e Live Stock on Every Farm Urged in Mi arm urged 11 iiss. Agricultural College Officials Unfold Plans for Extension Work in State. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MISS., Jan. 13.—What promises to be the most comprehensive cooperative movement for the betterment of farming ever un dertaken in any State has just been launched by J. E. Ruff, the newly ap pointed district agent in the co-opera tive farm demonstration work of the Mississippi A. & M. College and the Federal Government for south Missis sippi, who is planning not only for neighbor to cooperate with neighbor in his territory, but for every agency now working for the upbuilding of agricul ture, including professional crafts and representatives of other occupations to unite as one organization, meeting” at one central point to determine the two or three specific lines of farming that have proven most profitable in that sec tion and acting in unison by means of these definite enterprises to drive straight toward the goal of a highly profitable agriculture for the whole of south Mississippi. Announcement of these plans were made here by President W. H. Smith, of the college, following a conference bhe tween Presldent Smith and Mr. Ruff. One of the specific enterprises that will be pushed by this federation, as ex— plained by President Smith will be stock raising, with the slogan, ‘‘Live stock of some kind on every south Mis sissippi farm.” In some communities the interest will be centered on hog ralsing, other communities will be made into dairy centers, and still others into beef cattle capitals, while, as Mr. Ruff sees it, over all of south Mississippl sheep should be grown to utilize the weeds and coarse hay that are not relished by other forms of stock. < Linked to the live stock teachings will be that of growing plentiful feed sup plies, and especially of leguminous crops, which furnish food not only to the stock, but to the soil as well. . . Y S. A. L. Builds Cars For Dairy Product JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Jan, 13.—Two specially constructed refrigerator cars are being built by the Seaboard Afr Line Railway to handle the milk, cream and dairy products of the dairymen of Tal lahassee and ILeon County, who will ship their ‘goods here. These cars will be ready this month, according to Mrs. Florence R. 8. Phillips, of T:filahassw. who came here to arrange for distribu tion of the products in this city. Mrs. Phillips is one of the leading business women of Tallahassee, being secretary of the Tallahassee Boosters' Club. Mrs. Phillips received informa tion regardindg the construction of the cars several days ago from B. L. Ham ner, general industrial and development agent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail way. The output from Tallahassee and immediate vicinity will be sma’l at first, but plans are being made for an in crease. “There probably will be only about 100 cans a day to begin with, but 1 know there are many cattle growers who are planning to extend their work into the dairying business, and before many weeks elapse | think the business will make wonderful headway.” said Mrs, Phillips ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY, 14, 1917. Thoroughness of Early Plowing Is Important Factor Toward | Successful Harvest. One very essential principal in corn production in tne Central South is winter breaking of sod lands. Other things being equal, sod land will give better returns ~than soil which has been cropped the preyious year, there being more humus in the sod land, and humug holds moisture which is so essential. However, if the land is sloping to sueh an extent that the heavy winter rains will wash away the turned soil, then early spring plowing is permissible and advisable. In turning, three things should be kept in mind, depth to’ plow, thor oughness of work, and dryness of land. Depth of plowing is a matter needing study. It is desirable to plow not less than 8 to 10 inches, yet if the land has been turned shallow previously, the desirable depth must be reached gradually. The upper surface of the soil is the most fertile, containing the greater part of the plant food and organic rmatter, When the soil is plowed deep this layer of organic and plant food is covered with in active, inert material on the surface. Tehrefore, as a precaution, it is sug gested that the deepening be grad-. ual rather than at one turning. Disk ing a sod before plowing aids in get ting good contacts between the sur face sooil and the subsoil, Thoroughness of plowing is as im portant as thoroughness in other lines of business and the farmer practicing such methods is usually ranked as a progressive one, All workings, especially of our heavy clay lands, should be done only wHen the soil is in proper condition, that is, when it is dry enough not to “pud dle” when worked. A single plowing when too wet will have a bad effect for three or four yeans. The same is true of harrowing and cultivating, vet to a somewhat less extent. The time for turning land for corn is in the winter, or before spring: because, first, theyaction of the weather—freezing and thawing pulverizes the soil and the material t. rned under will’/begin to decay and change to plant food. Spring turn ing leaves more or less air spaces which cut off the moisture supply from below. Then, by winter break- ! ing we are able to gather and con serve a greater amount of moisture for the summer crop. | Time is also an important factor. | During the winter both man and horse hive more time then in which they are not occupied than in the spring 5 Seedmen Suggest What and How to | Sow for Spring Vege- g tables. Seedmen and truck gardeners are now turning thelir attention to the prepara tions for February planting in the Southern states, north of Florida. Seed ‘men recommend that next month gar deners sow in hot beds or cold frames ‘varly cabbage, cauliffower, beet, onion, lettuce, raddish; and in hotbeds sow eggplant, tomato and pepper. The last of the month sow in open ground early peas, spring kale, rhubarb and horse radish roots, beets, spinach, carrot, cel ery, radish and parsley. Set out aspar agus roots, onion sets and hardy lettuce plants. Early plantings of potatoes can be made. Hardy flower seeds can be forwarded either by sowing in hotbeds or in pots and boxes in the house for later transplanting. For the farm, prepare plant beds and put in tobacco seed. Sow Canada field peas and oats, and toward end of month grass and clover seeds can sarely be put in. Sow dwarf esseX rape for sheep grazing, Politics Not to Rule NEW YORK, Jan, 13.—Organization of the twelve Federal land banks has been undertaken, the farm loan board has announced with a metermination to eliminate politics entirely in the selec tion of the men who are to set up and operate the new institutions. The board announces that every effort will be made to get men whose fitness will commend them, not only to farm ers, who must borrow money, but to investors, who must look upon farm loan bonds as safé and prime securities. Secretary McAdoo has made public a letter he has addressed to.the Governors of all States, urging that they recom mend to their respective Legislatures the enactment of laws to make farm loan bondsg legal investments for trust funds and savings banks, where such laws are necessary. Mr. McAdoo also has written to the various farm loan organizations of each State pointing out the desirability of co-operation by them with the Governors in any measures aaopted looking to the enactment of such legislation. . . Sheep-Raising Offers ; . . . ~ Opening in Florida | e GAINESVILLE, FLA., Jan. 13.—The present high price of wool has aroused much interest in sgheep-growing, and many farmers are thinking of entering this field. C. L. Willoughby, professor of animal husbandry In the college of agricu'ture, University of Florida, limks nearly every farm could support a small flock of sheep to advantage on the rough fordges and scanty pastures, It would be best prohably to start in sheep paising with a few native ewes and breed up the flock with a pure bred ram, says Professor Willoughby. For mutton purposes the Southdown an,] Shropshire breeds are good, and for wool the Merino and Rambouillet are best. 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L a 7 % S " BAI W | % s % 5 S ol i Y Live Stock Board in Florida Is Proposed [ o l West End of State Plans Series of Meetings to Influence Legislation. PENSACOLA. FLA., Jan, 13.—Estab lishment of a State live stock sunlmr,\'J {l:«;ar(l by the next Florida Legislature iwill be one of the objects of a S)’H((f-’ ‘mati(' campalign to be conducted in ev ery county and precincr of west l"lurldai during the next few months by Dr. J. V. Knapp, of the bureau of animal in-l dustry of the United States Department ‘n! Agriculture. - To give impetus to the movement a ‘meeting of the West Florida Cattlemen's Assoclation wil! be held in Pensacola | on a date to be designated between now ‘ 'arid the meeting of the Legislature, andi this meeting will be followed by the meetings on a smaller scale in all of th&:! counties and precincts of this part of the State. | Dr. Knapp said that the establish- | ment of the live stock sanitary board, which, under the State Government, has the same functions as the bureau of ani mal industry for the national Govern- Izn(-m, was an absolute necessity in| | Florida because all of the States border- ‘ ing on Florida have such departments inf’ Government to control the brewiing,‘ shipment and marketing of live stock. \ The State Live Stock Asmmiuliun.‘ | which meets in Gainesville January 16- ' 19, will discuss establishment of the sani- | | tary board and tick eradication. .\'hullar‘ lmw'lings will be held in middle and ' southern Florida to discuss the same | proposgition before the Legislature meets. i . 4 Q< g Business Men Asked . . . | t To Aid in Tick Wa,ri | JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Jan, 13,»-~Th.=,l Business Men's Club has heen asked to co-operate with the Government tick. eradication workers in their efforts to rid Florida of this cattle pest by Dr. K. L. Nighbert, of the Department of Agriculture. Dr. Nighbert has told the business men of the fight that is heing waged to clear the Southern States of the Texas fever tick. He 'savs the cattle and beet industry is one of the most staple and 'substantial in_which the Florida farmer can engage. He has told of the handi caps that the tick workers have met in Georgla and other States, where in sev eral instances the di{:phlg vats have been dynamited. He asks the club mem bers to assist him :'%fi his co-workers to mold public opinion in favor of a wholesale crusade against spread or tol erance of the pest. | Florida Gardeners State Classed in Three Divisions, With Special Crops Best Adapted to Each. For Florida gardeners the following sugestions are made as to February planting: North and West Florida—Asparagus seed, early corn, Brussels sprouts, cab bage, carrots, collards, eggplart seed, English peas, Irish potatoes ,kale, leeks, lettuce, onions, parsely, pepper seed rutabagas, salsify, spinach, beets, tur nips. \ Central Florida—Asparagus seed, early corn, sea island cotton, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupes, carrots, collards, cucumbers, eggplant seed, English peas, Irish potatoes, kale, leeks, lettuce, onions, parsley, parsnip seed, rutabagas, salsify, spinach, Windsor beans, beets, sugar cane, field corn. Southern Florida—Adams early corn, beans, beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupes, carrots, cucumbers, egg plant seed, Irish potatoes, bale, lettuec, okra, onions, pepper seed, spinachf squash, Windsor beans, fleld corn and sugar cane. Inferior Live Stock Not Wanted in South \— i o Improved live stock is in great de mand in the South, and breeding ani mals must be imported from the North ern States. Because of this demand a few Northern breeders are snipping to‘ Southern buyers animais that are poor representatives of the breed. Some of the live stock papers recently have printed reports on this subject and warn Northern breeders to ship to the South none but high-grade animals. Loufsiana breeders have suffered loss by rpceivlni stunted and disqualified pigs in Northern shipments. In Florida a breeder of hogs received from a breed er in another State a pig for which a high price had been paid, and the ani mal proved to be poorer in conformation and quality than the Florida buyer had on his own farm. The best plan to use in buving breed ing stock, experienced live stock men say, I 8 to require a guarantee that the ‘animal must satisfy the buyer or it may be returned and money refunded. The ‘majority of Northern breeders are ready to send good animals to the South at comparatively low prices for the pur pose of introducing the-breeds and mak ing future good customers of Southern farmers, Reputable breeders usually‘ will be glad to make the guarantee sug gested Organization in Atlanta Perma nent Institution for Develop ment of Southern Lands. By ARCHIE LEE. Now that cotton is hovering around 20 cents a pound, Georgia farmers, in contemplating the new ecrop, are ask- Ing themselves and their neighbors how to make the old red hills, as welil as the black soil of the lowlands, pro duce more. No cotton—nor other crops, for that matter—was left in the flelds this year for want of picking, ian«l it doesn’t take a detective to learn that they are going to make their farms produce every pound pos sible next year. Agronomists are agreed that at no other period in the agricultural his tory of the South have farmers been 80 ready to learn the lessons scien tists have,&g teach about soil devei opment, Experiment stations and agriculturdl colleges are enjoying the popularity of “war brides.” It is a happy coincidence that at this period the Southern Fertilizer Association has established in Atlan ta a farmers' gervice organization, which is to be a permanent institution for the development of Southern farm lands. The idea is to disseminate as much information as possible, through advertsing, publicity and correspondence, about the proper use of commercial fertilizers. Experts Engaged for Work. Within a few days the new organi zation will be in full swing. Profes sor J. N. Harper, recognized as one of the foremost agricultural authorities in the South, has reslg!:xd the posi tion of dean of the South Carolina Agricultural College, at Clemson, and assumed the duties of director of the service organization. He will have assoclated with him Professor J. C, Pridmore as agronomist. Professoi Pridmore gave up the chalr of soils and crops of the University of Ten nessee, at Knoxville, to take the place. An editorial manager and an assistant agronomist are to be an nounced shortly. These men are experts on farming and the use of fertilizers. They will be in close touch with the Govern ment experiment stations and the ag ricultural colleges of the South and the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture, and will furnish specific as well as general Information on soil problems. The offices of the service depart - [mont are in the new headquarters of the Southern Fertflizer Association, In the Rhodes Building. The terri tory to be covered includes the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgla, Mlorida, Alabama, Tennessae, Mississippt, Louisiana and 1 Arkansas. ~ Efforts at soil development by ths Southern Fertilizer Assoclation wers ‘begun in a smal] Way some years ago by soil improvement committees. The Ademand for/this sort of service has grown to such an extent that it was ‘vnnsldered necessary to create the farmers’ service organization to sup ply it. ' Service Without Cost. Detached from the assoclation, the new organization would stand as a purely philanthropie effort. It has nothing to do with selling fertilizers, and all its service is given free, The Southern Fertilizer Assoclation is composed of approximately 95 per cent of the wholesale fertilizer deal ers in the South, and for the expendi - ‘tnrn necessary to maintain the serv.- ice bureau, their benefits will be only ‘the general and indirect return of a ‘fzrnan'r use of fertilizers by, the farm ers. \ “Broadly, the lesson to be taught ‘about fertilizers is that it is not a stimulant, but a food, to plant life,” sald Harry Hodson, of Athens, the president of the Southern Fertilizer Association, in outlining the plans of the farmers’ service department. When it is remembered that the ':mw-hpllum custom of wearing out fields and abandoning them was proved obsolete, and the true agricul tural development of the South was begun only with the introduction of commercial fertilizers, something of the scope of this new organization and of the promise of Southern farm land development can be grasped. Ernest E. Dallis iz secretary-treas urer of the Southern Fertilizer Asso ciation, and the members of the soil improvement committee are W. R. Richards, Atlanta, chairman; D. B. Osborne, Atlanta: Harry Hodson, Athens; T.. M. Bogle, Tupelo, Miss.: W. B. Stratford, Montgomery, Ala., and W, Macß. Smith, Norfolk, Live Stock Growing The demand for better live stock is growing in the South, and a great manyv farmers are discarding scrubs for pure bred and good grade animals. The pro duction of such stock will emphasize more than ever the necessity for pleqt}' of feed, Unless thé common practics of feeding is improved the importation of new blood \\'if! be neutralized. The necessity of plenty of winter feed for any animal! is apparent, whether it 18 or g ~bred. T " wab,,'\“u)\,}lrtuwz\ producers are objec! ing to the high cost of feed. They for get that the price of animals has also increased in proportion, so that they can realize just as great profits from feed ing now as they ever could.