The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-04
Food for Animals ira the South.

One vast source of food for farm
animals is an entire loss to the vast
portions of the South, part of Vir-
ginia and Tennessee being the onlv
exception. We allude to the corn
stalk.
AS invariably practiced in the South,
the stalk is left to dry and rot, or to
be burned when dry in the field. In
the North the stalks are cut down
while the blades are green, and put up
in shocks in the field, being supported
by some few stalks not cut, the tops
brought together and tied, the cut
corn stood up all around, and when
shock is completed, tied thus, there to
cure, and when corn is dry tbs 'husked
or as we call it, 'shucked,' hauled into
the house, and the stalks also, the
latter passed through cutting box,
steamed and fed to stock. Those who
have bestowed attention to the matter,
know that more -four is made from
wheat cut when the grain is in the
dough state before ripe, when the
milk of grain has matured into firmness
just to dough, MASKING by the thumb
and finger, than if the grain be per-
mitted to ripen in the field. At the
same time the stalk and blade have nu-
trative matter where, as when fully
ripe, this nutritive matter is used up
in forming the woody matter of the
stem. All grain for feeding should be
cut ten or fifteen days before maturity
because all the food giving principles
are there, and the indigestible woody
fiber has not been made at the expense
of the sugar and gum in the plant. or
course, ifthere be woody matter large
ly found in the corn stalk, there was
largely of sugar and gum to
make this, and it has been made to the
loss ofthe principles which are advan-
tageous as food Many think the corn
will shrivel up and there will be great
loss We know not how it will do in
the South, but we have hundreds and
of acres cut down at the
North, and we have no doubt that all
The corn on the thriving farms is SO
lone.
If oats be cut ten days before ripe
we know the stalk will all be eaten if
tut up, or better, threshed, cut up, a
title meal and salt water added. If
here be nutrition in the stalk of oats
Why not in the stalk of corn2 There
s no doubt of the fact that for feeding
if small grain be cut at
proper time, ten or fifteen days before
ipe. that they are greatly superior for
eeding, and we can not see why corn
5 an exception. Corn is but the
mammoth grass; all grasses, we be-
ieve, give more nutritive matter if cut
'efore ripe. Why should corn be an
RECEPTION? Our fathers know a great
eal, and they are worthy of imitation
n all that is right at least, but they
lay not have known everything, and
re should improve on what the be-
ueathed us.
We have had firm faith that in ten
ears we, of the South will be on the
ighway of prosperity, and in twenty
We years or less, the South will again
e the controlling spirit in this extern
ed nation, or whatever is the proper
anne Nation it is now, but we hope
e long it will be once more repub- {
G. We would therefore urge upon a
II fellows to begin to husband every
source, call to our aid every i'm
,ovement. and fail not to take into
,unt the small grains. If the corn
OPP can be made, as we hope and be-
we, entirely available, this grain
one will be net income equal to all n
ate expenses.