The installation of electricity on many Iowa farms the last few years is going to make it possible to get a lot of poultry flocks to lay during the fall and early winter months when eggs are scarce and the price highest.

One man with the large implements of modern farming methods can grow more corn than he can pick by hand.

If you get large increases in corn yields from improving your soil fertility, then probably your corn grain from the unfertilized land is deficient in phosphorous. It may contain less phosphorus than your livestock and poultry need for adequate nutrition.

Dairy cows fed plenty of silage, properly balanced with a grain mixture, will produce just as well and keep in as good condition as those fed both alfalfa hay and silage as roughage. In other words, apparently cows do not need a dry roughage along with silage.