The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-04-07
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Corn and Cob Meal.

through the agricultural papers, in refer
ence TO the value of corn and cob meal
A correspondent of the Western Rural
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:
{. Corn cobs are all right in their place.
They were designated by wise Provi-
dence as support for the kernel while
maturing. But to grind and compel ami
mails to eat substance containing only
seven per cent. of nutriment, must sooner
or later become unpopular, if it is not so
already. ! am sure that ere long every
merciful man will abandon the use of cobs
as food for animals. The article you
copied from the Utica Herald is, in my
opinion, an able one. am willing to en-
dorse every word of it.
Allow me to give you little of my
experience for the last fourteen years IN
grinding corn on the cob. In the la Of
1850, there was placed in the grist mill
off Crowell, Esq, of this village, corn
crusher for the purpose of crushing the
corn in the ear before grinding. The
whole farming community, with a very
few exceptions, rejoiced that they had
corn crusher in their midst, They thought
it was just the thing they wanted. Mo
vember, 1850, we set ''the thing" going,
and in ten months after we had crushed
and ground $4,000 bushels of corn in the
ear. One farmer living about mile from
the village, had, the first winter, upwards
of 500 bushels ground, to feed breaking
up team Of six yoke of oxen, and fit them
for spring work. But instead of being
good breaking-up team in the spring of
1850, the gentleman told me himself that
1t broke up his team. For, alter plough
ing an hour or two liz the morning, they
appeared to become weak and exhausted.
The consequence was that breaking-up
melted away like snow before an April
sun. That farmer became satisfied that
corn cobs were not "lhe thing" Since
1850 the grinding of corn on the cob has
become unpopular in this section OF coun-
try; so much so that but very little is
ground.
Allow me to give an account of an ex-
pertinent which tried with corn ground
up in the ear in the fall of 1850. The
pigs which raised in the spring of the
above year, were fed through the summer
on milk and mill-feed, and kept in the
pen. But as corn on the cob became pop
ular that fall, ground up three bushels
quite fine. ] commenced cooking it in
small quantities, say six quarts day and
took care not to feed them too much at a
time. For a few days they seemed to
relish it. but before the three bushels were
cooked and fed, | could see that corn cobs,
cooked or uncooked, were not ''the thing''
for fattening hogs. tried it to my satis-
faction.
There seems to be something about
corn cobs 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 time.
Farmers, shell your corn, let it be clean
ed up before grinding, have it ground fine,
and feed the meal to your fatlening hogs
in small quantities at first. Let it be fed
dry, in separate trough from the water.
Keep away all will for at least four weeks
before butchering them Give them what
meal they will eat and let their drink be
clean, coll water. A little charcoal and
salt in small quantities now and then are
very healthy for hogs that are iattenng.
Follow this, and my word for it you will
have solder, heavier and healthier pork
than though it was fed on corn cobs.