Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-26

g,, tae Experimental ,sa iesdiFg had been con;
2 In many imtanoes the difference in the
Temperature at which the animals were
Kept was sufficient TO effect the result fully
fttyper cent, and vet the farmer whose
feeding experiments have been conducted
under circumstances, when compared with
Que whose success was fifty percent. more
profitable, showed beyond al doubt that
the main difference in the circumstances
oil the two experiments was the difference
in the temperature a. which the animals
and the food were kept, still no provision
is made to supply the defect in the stable
and its appurtenances, but the less success.
iul seems satisfied with the profits of his
system.
Scarcely an example Of this kind can be
found in any other Of the industrial pur-
suits, but they are common in every
branch Of agriculture An example di-
rectly to the point has recently come to
J the knowledge Of the writer from the
mouth Of the less successful of two neigh.
| hors, who occupied adjoining farms in
! Baltimore county, Maryland, and were
! both in the milk business. Their stable
arrangements were similar, except that
one fed cooked and the other uncooked
food The number of COWS kept were
about the same. The character of the
proyender produced and purchased, pre-
cisely the same, that purchased being
from the cargo or lot the two dairymen
went TO the drove yard together and joint
ly selected and purchased a lot of COWS,
which were placed in yard and the part
ners divided them by casting lots for the
first choice, and choosing alternately un-
til the stock was divided.
This course was calculated, in COnnec-
ton with all other circumstances connect
ed with the systems Of these two dairy
men, to place them, more nearly than is
usual, on the same platform with regard
to their dairy profits. There was, however,
great difference in the net profit derived
from the two stables, though the milk was
sold at the same price, and precisely the
same course pursued with it.
The only difference III feeding the two
dairies was rs follows, the hay and fodder
used being the same in each case
When they laid in the grain fed, the
course pursued was to deliver at the same
time Of the same quality of food in these
proportions To the stable of the party
VINO steamed the food for his cows, nine
hundred pounds of corn meal and one
hundred bushels of drown stuff" weigh
ing twenty.seven pounds per bushel, cost
ing forty five cents per bushel; and to th'
, other stable 1900 pounds of cOrn meal arc
one hundred bushels of brown stuff,
, which was fed on cut hay and fodder tht
I same as the other, only that it was in thu
raw state.
The gentleman who fed the uncooket
food referred to his book and gave lac tn
data. The yield of milk per head from
I the COWS ted with the cooked food was
= fraction over ten per cent. greater thai
Z that of those fed and sold for beef from tn
y dairy stable, and the amount of sale pc
head averaged seven dollars more for thos
fed on steamed food.
| was informed that these two dairymel
= were in the habit of visiting almost daily
: each Others stables, and closely obseryin!
-, all the details of the management OF bot
stables. The party who fed the uncooke'
g food has since provided himself with
n cooking apparatus, and is now preparing
y to build avery extensive stable, with steam
y power for cutting fodder and the best AZ
= rangements for cooking food,
! Where the number of animals kept
. small, it is questionable whether it is prac
f ticsble TO make it pay for the necessary
p arrangements, apparatus, care and labo
n required to cook food.
/ am we'll satisfied that when a per
n petual dairy is kept-that is, when th
milk must be had every day in the year
r in the same quantity, and thirty or NOR
n cows are kept in one stable, a saving o
h fully thirty per cent. can be made By
@ cooking and grinding the food. an
further of the opinion that a saving of a
least eight per cent, but generally fitteel
per cent, can be made on all corn fed b.
grinding it at the same time it is steam
, ing by the use of revolving cylinder il
!, which the corn is to be steamed, anC
putting INTO the cylinder, with the corn
e u proper number of iron balls, the steam
y to be admitted through one or the jour
! nails on which the cylinder reyolTes. Th
u cylinder being but partially filled, it vii
= reyolve in one direction and the balls !,
p the opposite.
u u AS the steam softcns the corn it will b
- readily mashed to pulp, in which cond
- ton, II is mixed with steamed mill feeC
y or brown stuff, and this mixture, put o
. cut hay in warm state, will constitute
character Of provender in which the nj
- triton will be readily availed of.-Rurc
a Mac Yorker. ..