FEED RESERVES
By planning to produce reserves of feed in excess of prospective requirements one is likely to be in a better position to face unexpected crop failures. It is a serious matter to ■be short of feed at critical periods; and, on the other hand, a surplus of feed ordinarily never need be wasted, while it may enable exceptionally advantageous market opportunities to be grasped, states the Journal of Agriculture. In planning the cropping programme, provision should be made for the requirements not only of the main class of stock on the farm, but also of less important classes, such as pigs and poultry on dairy farms, and these together with cows on farms devoted dominantly io grain or sheep. Tlie poor returns often obtained from cows, poultry and pigs kept as sidelines frequently are due primarily to poor feeding. Judicious extension of the programme of arable cropping commonly is a very economical means of improving such poor , feeding.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1935, Page 24 (Supplement)
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160FEED RESERVES Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1935, Page 24 (Supplement)
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