The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-21
AGRICULTURAL.

BRAN FOR SToCK.-Again / say, save
or procure "a supply of bran and mid
dlings. In answer to an inquiry some
time since in regard to the value of the
manure from a ton of hay, | made the
statement that experiment had demon
strated that the manure from bran was
more valuable than that from the same
amount of weight of any of our common
cereals-hay, straw on vegetables.
will make a few remarks on the value of
bran az food and medicine for stock. l
know it is spoken of and recommended
by many, but it is not held in that de-
gree of estimation to which it is entitled,
nor used in the place, nor in the manner,
its qualities would be likely to render it
of the most value.
If you will go to the trouble of ex-
amining table of its chemical analysis,
and compare it with other articles of
feed in common use, you will perhaps
| be able to form some conclusions when,
and in what quantity, it will be valu-
| able addition to the other feed being
used, in order to make up some defici-
ency, or counterbalance some excess of
ingredients i'll the other more common
articles of feed.
1t is an invaluable article for feeding
young, growing animals, presenting the
necessary ingredients for the growth
and strengthening of the frame. Where
as, with too rich a feed, u great portion
of it would pass off in the cxcrements,
and the system become cloggcd with ex-
cess of fatty matter, which could not be
assimilated for want of a proportionate
amount of bone and muscle forming sub
stance. And with it, you can obviate
the necessity of going to the other ex-
treme, as great many do, and leave
them on bulky feed which contains very
little of either him or her, and of which
the animal is not able to eat and digest
sufficient to make much growth in either
fat, blood or bones, and sometimes not
even the necessary amount to keep its
hide on.
1t is the very thing to bring up poor
animal into Il sufficient condition for re-
ceivlng richer feed.
1t is the very thing to tone down the
fevered and clogged system, resulting
from colds, or an excess in feeding rich,
fatty substances.
1t will add tone and digestion to the
weakened stomach, and vigor to the dull
and stupid frame.
In the hands of Il feeder who will pay
sufficient attention to the condition of
his animals to detect any irregularities
of their system, and who will use some
Judgment, it can be made to render as
effectual service in the cure and preven-
ton of disease, as blue-mass and Cruel
soup in the hands of the medical pro-
fession. And like the cruel soup
which, if it or something equivalent to
it, was administered at the proper time,
it would be most likely to result in
cure or prevention, without the necessity
of resorting to the use Of the blue-mass
so bran can be made to check or prevent
disease, and thus obviate the necessity
of using powders, drenchings, etc, and
thus divert the danger and dcbilitating
effects attending their use.
For those who cook their coarse feed,
or who give liberal allowance of roots,
its use would not be so much required.
But l write this for the masses of the
people, who neither cook their feed, nor
yet feed roots, and with whom its use is
most neglected, who yearly ship their
shipstuff, or feed it injudiciously to get
it out of the road leaving the young
animals to become stinted on coarse feed
their milking ones to burn dry with
carbon, their fattening ones to become
diseased, and their sickly ones to die, all
for want of a proper proportion III the
digestible ingredients of their fccd.-Cor
RUl'dl Ne,c Yorker.