The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-02-17
THE CALIFORNIAN
agricultural.
corn 0nd Coo Meal.

A great deal has been said pro and con,
through the agricultural papers in reference
to the value of corn and cob meal A
correspondent of the Western Rurul gives
the following, as his experience He
claims to have been in the milling business
for several years and to be well posted on
the merits of such feed.
Com cobs are all right in their place
They Were designed by wise Providence
rs support for the kernel while matur-
ING. But to grind and compel ANIMALS to
eat a substance containing onl ~ seven per
cent of nutriment. must, sooner or later,
become unpopular, if it is not so already.
am sure that ere long every mercitul,
man vii! abandon the use Of cobs as food
for animals The article you copied from
the [ tica XcraM i, in my opinion, an
able one | am willing to endorse every
word OF it.
Allow me to give you little of my
experience for the last fourteen years on
grinding corn Oh the cob In the fall Of
1850 there was placed in the grist mill OF
j. Crowall, Esq, Of this village, corn
rrusher for the purpose of crushing the
corn in the ear before grinding. The
whole farming community, with a very
few exceptions, reioiced that they had a
corn crusher in their midst. They thought
it was u>t The thing they wanted. In
November, 1850. we set '.the thing" 60
ing, and in ten months after we had crush
ed and ground $4,000 bushels Of corn in
the ear One farmer living about a mile
from the village, had the first winter, up
wards Of 800 bushels ground, to feed a
breaking up team Of six yoke Of oxen,
and fit them for spring work. But instead
of there being good breaking up team
IN the spring of 1850, the gentleman told
lnc himself that it broke up his team. For
ai,cr ploHing an hour or two in the morn
in@. they appeared to become weak and
exhausted. The consequence was that
breaking up melted away like snow before
IN April sun. The farmer became salts
Since 1850 the grinding OF corn on the
cob has become unpopular in this section
OF the country: so much SO that very lit
tie is ground
Allow me to give an account of an cX-
pertinent which tried with corn ground up
III the ear in the fall of 1880 Two pigs
which raised in the spring of the above
year, We're fed through the summer on
milk and mill feed, and kept in the pen.
But as corn on the cob became popular
that fall, ground up three bushels quite
fine commenced cooking it in small
quantities, say SIX quarts per day, and
took care not to feed them too much at a
time. Fora few days they seemed to
relish ii. bat before the three bushels were
cooked and fed, | could see that corn cobs
cooked Or lmcooked, Were not 1.-The thing"
ior tlitening hogs. | tried it to my salts
faction. There seems to be something
about corn co!s after they are ground and
taken into the Stomachs of swine, that
causes an irritation or inflammation so
much so that the animal becomes weak,
unable to stand but few moments at a
time.
Farmers. shell your corn, let it be clean
ed up before grinding, have it ground fine,
and feed the meal to your fattening hogs
in small quantities at first Let it be fed
dry, in a separate trough from the water.
Keep away all swill for III least four week:
before butchcring them. Give them what
meal they will eat and let their drink be
clean, cold water A little charcoal and
salt in small quantities now and then arc
very healthy for hogs that are iattening
Follow this, and my word for it YOU will
have solder heavier and healthier pork
than though it was fed on corn cobs