Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-12-13
Feeding Corn Ground vs.. Corn Un
ground.


The Hon. H. L, Ellsworth, some time Com
missioner Of Patents, says that it is fact, ess
tablished by long experiments, that corn ground
into meal, and then cooked, is $50 per cent
better for fattening cattle and hogs, than corn
fed as they usually feed il at the West in the
field. That is, corn worth so cents per bushel
TO feed raw and unground, is worth 81 when
ground and boiled or steamed. This difference
would soon pay for mill and steaming appa'
ratus.
Mr. Cassius NJ Clay, after long trial, has
given us the following facts In making pork,
one bushel corn made s 10 l6ths, Of pork ;
boiled corn made Ia l6ths pounds and boiled
meal made, in one instance, l6 7'l6ths, and in
another nearly l9 pounds Of pork. In other
words, dry corn is worth 45 cents, boiled corn
81 l518, and boiled meal 81 81 u to 81 Al per
bushel, when pork is worth cents per pound |;
or one bushel Of corn ground and cooked is
worth three bushels il fed dry.
| In the Genesee Farmer for 1858, page So, We
find the matter presented in another light, Mr.
s. II. Clay, of Bourbon county, KY, says he
has found by careful experiment that pork made
by feeding raw corn at Sc cents per bushel cost
8 cents per pound, and II the corr was ground
and cooked the pork costs but cents per pound.
1t may, therefore, be safely assumed that the
value Of corn is treble for fattening animals by
grinding aud cooking. In the 3" Transactions
Of the New York Agricultural Society" for
1855, page 3l2, 10 Watson's Prize Essay, We
find the following elucidaton of this subject.
"The kernels Of corn are exceedingly hard
and difficult Of mastication, aud, in conse'
quence, large proportion passes into the stom'
Rch entire and without being broken. The
process Of digesting substances Of this kind
must be exceedingly slow aud difficult; the
gastric juices cannot eGectually penetrate
them until they become softened and reduced
by the action OF the stomach. This action oil
that organ Is severe, and necessarily irrltates
and disturbs It's coats and the grain, while II
remains in that condition, swells and oppresses
the membranes, and passing but partially dl
gesled into the intestines, Is voided while q
considerable portion remains entire. IL eau
require no argument TO prove that grain rejected
in this state has passed through the system not
only without imparting any nutrition 70 INC
animal but has produced positive injury oy ls
irritative and oppressive effects"
Now, by grinding the corn into meal, II Is
rendered comparatively easy Of digestion, being
made more pe'meable to the gastie luiee' ana
less irritating 10 the costs OF The stomach and
intestines. Cooking The meal does not add auy
nutritive ingredients, probably, but, softening
and changing the character Of the starchy con
atituents, the digestion. and subsequent assimi'
lation, ars rendered perfect. II will, therefore
pay any farmer we'll TO get, at least, nlill 70
Rriud his feed, if steaming apparatus is beyond
bis reach. In the ratio obtained from the above
i figures Of Mt Clay, # man usually feeds my
bushels 6fs NV corn TO his fattening animals
he could sell two.tbirds (thirty-threo bushels)
and buy a mill, aud then have the requisite
amount Of feed to fatten his pork, a. Il could
be boiled 10 a common five or seven pail kettle
or even over a stove. This amount Of corn--al
eightysseyeu and half cents per bushel, tho
average price here for the last three yeafs--
would buy irst-rate mill.
scarletl's Corn and Cob Mill-universall5
pronounced to be the best invented--is mnnu'
featured and sold by D. @. Taylor, Buckey'
Foundry, Third street, Dayton. o. Mr.. I. hal
the right for the cOunties Of Montgomery
Greene, Clarke. Miami, and Darko. We adyisl
our patrons throughout the county 70 getlL