Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-31
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Cooked Food for swine.
Thomas j. Edge, Of Chester county, Pa,
one of the best farmers of that excellent
farming district, in answer to the inquiries
of the editor of the Practical Farmer,
gives that paper a report of his experiments,
which cannot fail to be read with interest
by all engaged in making pork =
=" My first experiment was with old corn,
in three forms, viz shelled and fed whole
ground and made into slop with cold water,
and ground and thoroughly cooked.
| The pigs, five in number, were from the
same litter, and were the produce OF good
common SOW crossed with Berkshire boar
In each case the food was given them as
fast as consumed, and all possible care taken
to avoid any waste or irregularity OF feeding;
in every case of u change Of food three days
was allowed before the weighing for the eX-
pertinent, in order that the effect OF sudaen
and entire change of diet might not Affect |
the result.
| found that five bushels OF whole corn
made 47s pounds of pork Five bushels
!, (ess miller's TOLD of corn, ground and made
into thick slop with cold water, made 6ia
pounds of pork The same amount Of meal,
well boiled and fect cold, made $50 pounds
of pork.
with the whole corn the pigs had the
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i drink with the boiled mush, one or two
. quarts were thinned with cold water or atop
n from the house; in each case the house slop
d was used in some form or other, but all the
Il milk was reserved for small pigs. The fiji
teen bushels Of corn cost $l.30 per bushel,
and thee will notice that while the pork
A made from. the whole corn barely paid for
IA the corn, that from the same amount OF
lie ground corn cooked, paid the whole cost OF
Al, l., bnn nj dollar
y bushcl over, and that the economy of grind
~ ~ Ing and making into slop will fully warrant
d the extra trouble and expense. How could
id il be otherwise, when the whole economy OF
II, profitable feeding consists in bursting Of
Ill or breaking the indigcstible hull which en-
closes the minulc particles Of the food?
In the ah4YtcNperimen the data arc baset
Of upon pork hi 81 per cwt.. and corn at ! 81
"a per hushcl, but it will apply as well to othc
cc prices.
elr The second experiment was exclusiycl,
rs with new corn, In two forms, viz: on tn
a1 ear, and sAeed and ground before boiling
Is and all in each case was what we know 4
M '.nubbins" or soft corn. The best of thi
led class Of corn was reserved for the pigs an
the worst fed to the cattle. Ten bushels o
=, The cob made 19J pounds of pork, fed in TIL
81. usual way on the ground. The same amour
red shcled, ground by horsepower, and we
rhe boiled, made Ga pounds of pork. or cours
ow q portion Of that fed on the ear was wasted
Dl- bat it is the common plan, and forms but
een fair test Of The comparative merits OF cooke
i IN food. ! have made no experiment wit
his sound new corn, but may have favorab
i'm opportunity before the season is past, bl
D. would suppose that my experiment with o.
corn would form a good criterion to jude
by.
hse, Thee asks for any indirect points whio
VN- may have been noticed during the exper
ia. ments. have found that there is econon
sire in allowing tile food TO become thorough
cold before it is fed; that in this state
ling larger amount will be eaten, with more a
hut parent good appetite that while scalding
osne beneficial, thorough and prolonged cookif
III, tM under pressure is more economical.
i hv more than one case | fastened the lids Of Il
ng a barrels down until the pressure was as hi!
the as five pounds per square inch in the barr
rue and steamer, and an examination into 4
condition of the food convinced me that
,,l, globules were thoroughly bursted, and
FIX was all or ncarly all rendered avaiab
Ms 4 During given tMe the same pigs will co
Mid sumo rather more corn cooked than
y Of cooked.
Having eaten various portions Of one
The above pigs, fed almost entirely on COO
,, ed food ftrd culd), AID having assisted
'''i'- killing all of them, must say that the pl
'ceu- v.cnt idea that the meat of such pigs is i
udih as firm as ii fed upon uncooked food, L
move proven, in my case, to be erroncous-thou
sy at am not prepared to say what the res
door would have been had the food been lis
4 op- "iiiie m''ilil ' Vi no'. ..,,
,..ai in speaking Of the value OF potatoes VIII
= s So. ! t',r,ss.a fs,r sfuss, s'.-,.
o@nf II have demonstrated 10 my own sat
NJ to to fiction, with the use of a Prindle steam
ihat and careful weighing, that while five bush
year Of boiled mush (hasty-pudding) VIII ma
iui0n eighty four pounds Of pork, three bushels
aeNt meal and five of potatoes will make seven
aa.., TWO and one half pounds Of pork. | do |
P ZEN wish to be understood that the five bush
III i Of POTATOES made the extra twenty-five a
rilay one-half pounds, but merely to state Il
under similar circumstances the two co
grand bined produced the above result.