The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
COOKED FEED.


filled with ice. 1 was, however, SO
well pleased with its success as feed
that 1 determined not to be beaten by
little frost, and so built an arch
of stone and mud mortar and set
in it large boiler, holding TWEEN
cooked my meal into mush. My hogs
like the cooked much better than raw.
It would keep 25 hours after cooking
before it was cool enough for feed Chat
is milk-warm) and nearly another "a
hours before 1t was cool enough to
freeze. Moreover, when poured warm
into the troughs it would thaw of a
portion OF the frozen slop adhering to
their sides. There was thereafter no
inconvenience either In keeping or
feeding. The pork was in every respect
equal to that of hogs fed on whole sound
corn. I think the hogs were fattened
with about half the corn they would
have consumed had they been fed in
the usual manner, counting the miller's
toll as so much of the sIop consumed.
That Is to say, I reckoned every bushel
hauled to the mill as one bushel fed to
the hogs though they actually ate only
seven.eighths Of it.
AS my hogs did so we'll on cooked
mush, 1 purchased of james L. Haven
q Co., Gin, o., steam boiler and COM
menced feeding my fattening cattle. l
will give the result of my experiment.
1 fed fifteen head Of cattle three months
one bucket of slop each, three times a
day. More than a bucket each would
cloy them. A bucket contained one
tenth of bushel OF. corn toll off, Thus
in one month fed each bullock nine
bushels of corn, in three months twen-
ty.seVen bushels. My cattle had hay
besides and were stabbed and tied up
bv the head and Uttered down like
horses. They offered very well accord.
ing to their outward appearance. In
butchers language, "they died we'll. ="
How much corn they would have eaten
had they been ted In the usual manner
1 cannot say, as never 1attened cattle
before, but 1 am told about forty-fve
bushels each. I could, I think, with
certainty. say to 8. T. Real, that it
would pay him to get steamer 1t he
expects annually 10 fatten ten bullocks
and twenty-five hogs.
Ny steamer cost Song watts were
old molasses barrels, except one which
made myself on the principle of a
railroad water tank. It would have
cost s. to have had a carpenter make it.
Two watts at least are needed to give the
slop time to cool before feeding, and
three would be still better. One man
can haul the corn to mill three miles
fed to the stock, and in every respect
attend to ten head of cattle and twenty.
five hogs. Wood is small item. The
furnace of my steamer will not hold
more than four or five good cord wood
sticks say 3x4 or 3x5, and after the first
barrel is heated it will bear enough
water to make barrel OF slop In 30 or
As minutes. 1t will heat 80 gallons in
80 minutes. would advise Mr.. s. T..
Real to send to D. B. Prindle, East
Bethany, N. Y, for circular of their
boiler, as James l.. Haven ~ Co. have
quit the business.
Another advantage In cooking feed for
hogs is that they do not cloy after two
or two and half months feeding as
thew are apt to do when fed on whole
corn. sp.- gas o.
Nearly every farmer knows that hogs,
when fed on whole corn after two and
q half months feeding, will not eat
enough. This year / led some hogs
three months, and though SO fat they
could not walk half o mile, they ate
lust as we'll at last as at first.
I am also inclined to think that il
hogs are fed on cooked slop when run
ming on clover pasture during the sum-
mer 1t will be no hlndrance to their
fattening in the succeeding winter,
while feeding on whole corn would be.
Whole corn, when fed to young ami
Cooked slop seems nearly equal to
milk, Last summer fed spring pigs
on soured slop nearly the whole sum-
mer, and they fattened as we'll as could
be asked, weighing when not quite a
year old 305 lbs. gross: 1 regard a hog
as nothing more than corn or grain
mill for turning corn or grain into
pork, and in order to get the greatest
amount of pork out of the mill It must
be kept constantly at work; the hopper,
alias, the mouth, must be kept full.
II any farmer has found out by his
own experience that hogs fully fed on
cooked or S0Mred nlush in the summer
fatten badly the succeeding winter let
him answer in your columns. Next
wintBF 1 can answer for myself, as
am feeding fourteen last falls pigs
nearly all the cooked slop they will
eat and shall continue to do SO until 1
think them becoming too fat. AT pres
cnt they only groto at an amazing rate.
1 have no experience In cooking corn
whole except one tubfuI which boiled
two hours and then it was not SOFT
Mine Is a yellowish red or reddish yell
low, a very hard corn.-C0tntT,yn