A wild guess, corn, wheat, barley, oats.


7 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum

I have learned so much from these questions. I'm always looking for the next new one because, The older that I get the more I find out things I don't know. Thank you all for posting questions & answers both.


7 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum

Corn, Wheat, Oats, and Barley.

I'm happy to post these questions, and am always pleased to know that others enjoy and benefit from them as I do. I've learned a lot from these questions, myself; not just how things once were, but now and then I read things that I may want to consider incorporating into my own operation, or at least to think about.


7 years ago via Forums | Front Porch Forum

Jerry you are right on target! I like to read "Morrison's Feed and Feeding" for just the same reasons. There is much wisdom in the old ways!


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I really like Morrison's Feed and Feeding. I have a couple of copies and have given away a couple of copies. My favorite is the seventh edition. It has more practical information, I think, than the newer versions. I have one of the more recent copies when it became "Nutrition" and it has recommendation on such things as how much newspaper a cow can be fed, or chicken litter, or how much saw dust to mix in the feed. I personally don't care for that type stuff. I've put together a pretty good collection of older farming and farm related books. I really recommend Farm Knowledge; a set of encyclopedia type books printed in a four volume set by Sears and Roebuck. My copies are from 1917, but are surprisingly advanced on some of their information; their pharmaceutical info, not so much. I tend to shy away from the uses of lead, arsenic, kerosene. I have a really good book called The Farming Handbook, which was printed for farmers in Kentucky in the late 40s, early 50s. It has some great information on various topics as well as a schedule of timing out crop and livestock activities. It might be a good idea for some of us to start doing some book reviews of some of the old texts for people on here who might be looking for such stuff.


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