Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-02-13
No. 81.
Value Of Corn Neal.

as the spirit of invention moved him. during the
pas, year, has al length completed Corn aud
Cob Grinder, and put i, in operation in Win
,hrop village where he resides. As We stated
sometime ago in The Farmer, II is so small and
compact that, with The exception of the hopper.
you may put the whole of it into your hat. |.
is terrible cob eater, though, if it is SO small
We have had ears of corn {" chawed' up by 1t
after the rate of bushel in four minutes, and
this too, when ii had ground 50 mucn that ii.
teeth were dull, and the bands too loose to give
him stop speed"
The corn was green and damp, being lot of
"pig corn" sorted out from the best Mr.. PITTS
has II so arranged that he crack up your
corn, without the cob, TO any required ineness,
from coarse samp to superffne bannoch. B4t
what's the of grinding up the cohs!
Why not keep them 10 kindle your FIRE with,
smoke your bacon, or make manure? Why,
let US see what they are worth for horse or cat
tie feed. If we prove to you that the cob
meal is worth as much buSheI for buSheI, as oats,
you will allow it is an object TO them.
Every body who has fed horse or OK
much with "corn nub6ins" in the fall of the
year, has noticed that he will eat the whole,
cob and all, and seem 10 prefer it TO shellef
corn. We once owned horse that wouldn't
eat corn, any way you could fix ii, unless it
were on the ear, when he would "munch" the
whole together very greedily. Every one
knows, TOO, that when we feed an OK or COW on
this, considerable portion of the kernels of
the corn pass through whole, undigested, and
Of course are the same SO much corn throwa
away. Now for some proof that the cob Of the
meal is equal 10 the same measure OF oats, we
find in The New England Farmer the following
statements, quoled from the Massachusetts Ag-
rcu,ural Repository Of 1923. Il is commun-
icalion from Mr.. Rice, of Shrewsbury. He is
stock raiser, and man Of great experience in
feeding cattle. He gives an account Of using
cob meal, as feed, as follows The second
year, if | mistake not in which made Of
cob meal, thought would Try an experiment,
by feeding one OK with corn and oats ground,
the other with corn and cobs, having yoke Of
oxen so evenly matched that no one who viewed
them was satisfied which was the best. Ac-
cordingly, fed as above. The cob is compu-
ted to make little more than one third; there
fore mixed the other with one third oats, as
was my former mode. | gave each OK an equal
quanliiy a, a time. except, ,he one which had
corn and oats sometimes became dainty and
would not cal his allowance, while the other
kept an equal course. The allowance Of both
was little over three pecks per day. When
taken to market and killed, they weighed twen-
ty-eight hundred and half. The one fed on
corn and oats weighed half hundred the most;
while the one fed on corn and cob meal was
considered half dollar per cwt. the best beef.
The one fed on corn and cob meal had I63 lbs.
of laIow--lhe other l62 pounds. From this
experiment, i, will be seen what the compara-
tive value of cob meal is.
We have been informed by farmers wife.
that the meal from the cob ground alone, when
sifled fine. will make very good "fiaP Jacks"
We have also found by experiment that hens
are very fond Of corn and COB meal. Our hens
would eat that which Mr. Pitts ground for US,
as greediy as they would corn, and this is the
only way we know of 10 get cobs down hea.
Here, then is chance for farmers TO make
a great saving. If the cob meal amounts to
one-lhird Of that made by corn and cobs ground
together, then the farmer who raises hundred
bushels of ears of corn and throws away tjs
cobs, is equally as imprudenl and foolish as he
who raises thirtv.threc and third bushels Of
oats and throWs them all a~oy, ,rheR he has har-
vested and thrasked- NJ aine Farmer.
"Will you take ninch of snuff Mr. Sprir-