American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-30
Bran for Stock.

AGAIN | say, save or procure a supply
of bran and middlings. 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
demonstrated that the manure from bran
was more valuable than that from the
same amount of weight of any of our
common cereals-hay, straw or vegeta-
bles. ! will make few remarks on the
value of bran as food and medicine for
stock. l know it is spoken of and com
mended by many, but it is not held in
that degree 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 90 to the trouble of eXamin-
ing 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 a valuable addition to
the other feed being used, in order to
make up some deficiency, or counterbal-
ance some excess of ingredients in the
other more common articles of feed.
1t is an invaluable article fer feeding
young, growing animals, presenting the
necessary ingredients for the growth and
strengthening of the frame. Whereas,
with two rich a feed, a greater portion of
it would pass OIL in the eXcrements, and
the system become clogged with excess of
fatty matter, which could not be assimi-
| lated for want of a proportionate amount
Of bone and muscle-forming substance.
And with it you can obviate the necessity
of going to the other extreme, as a 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 i'll 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-
ceiving 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 feeder who will pay
sufficient attention to the condition of his
animals to detect any Irregularities OF
/ their system, and who will use some iudg
! ment, it can be made to render as effect
ual service in the cure and prevention OF
disease, as blue mass and cruel soup in
( the hands Of the medical profession. And
1 like the Cruel soup-which if it, or some
thing equivalent 10 il, was administered
ut the proper time it would be most like
. ~ TO result in a cure or prevention, with
out the necessity Of resorting to the use
OF the bIue-mass-so bran can be made tc
check or prevent disease, and thus obvi
ate the necessity Of using powders
drcnchings, etc, and thus divert the dan
ger and dcbllitatinE effects attending theil
use.
For those who cook their coarse feed
or who give 81 liberal allowance Of roots
its Use would not be SO much required
But | write this for the misses of the poo
pie, who neither cook their feed, nor We
feed roots, and with whom its use is mos
neglected, who yearly ship their slipstutl
or feed it iniudiciuusly TO get il ont ufth'
roads leaving their young animals to he
come stintcd on coarse feed, their milk
ing ones to burn dry with carbon, the
fattemng ones TO become diseased, an,