Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-02-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Cooking Food for Stock.

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At the Farmers Club the other day,
Col. Curtis said have received a let
ter from o. ID. Whitecomb, Rodman, n
Y, asking a series Of question, ab,lt
cooking fr.d for stock, an At a | lie vi,-
it to Beacon Farm read them to vii
liam Gro ;ier and bell. wing lin to he al
least one of the best farmers in this co..n.
try, l give the questions and answers
How many cows do you feed !:
Ans.-Niueiy cows and other cattle
Do yon r,,d horses cooked feed entire
ly?
Ans-Yes
DO yoa feed horses any grain clear 7
Ifso, do you cook j, (!
Ans. Feed no clear grain cook al!
in winter.
How much hay do you feed cows per
day?
Ans.-I feed about three per cent, of
the gross weight of the animal, of my
mixed feed all of it steamed.
How many times do yen feed per
day
Ans-Twice.
DO you feed any raw hay 7
Ans-Sometimes little for change
Do You feed straw mixed with hay or
cornfodder or clear
Ans-Mixed.
How much hay do you consider ton
Of good oat straw worth for feeding cows
both being cooked
Ans-About one-iIi.u
Wheat and barley straw
Ans Good for bedding, unless cut
before the grain is ripe the grain must
be los, to get value for the straw.
Sowed corn
Ans.-Full as good as hay if cut at
proper time.
Com stalks :
Ans.-Not SO gnod.
Would you feed horses cooked fool
through spring p!owing and other mar!
work
Ans No. Feed hard feed, hay anl
oats.
VIII steamer Of l,CC0 sgnare inches
OF heating surface be large enough l.,
cook for fifteen cows
Ans-A bax eight zee: long, four feet
high, and four feet wide is abou. what !
use. | DO not know what he means by
heating surface. A box fifty inches long
and twenty wide would have bottom
surface of 900 square inches; make
this four or FIVE feet high and it might
Go him
How long do You st-am fodder, aul
with how much pressure +?
Ans.-T'wo pounds pressure and for
three hours time.
Do YOU feed snanSel Nurtzsl and o.her
roots, and if 80. cooked or raw?
Ans.-Yes. Cat, mixed with Other
food, and steamed
How large a box DO you use 2
.Ans.-l2S CUBIC feet.
How often do you cook fodder
Ans.-Every day.
PC yc f1ei cold ?
Ans-No blood warm, no hotter.
What length do you cut fodder
Ars.-in inch, or an inch and half |
] would further advise him to manure |
we'll and i'!ow deep, according to tie old
provcrb. -E
Col. Curtis adds | do rot believe !
there il better system Of feeding than
Mr. Crozier's The root, hay cornfodGcr
are cut. then mixed o.ethcr, ten dau-
pened and kept warm on the top of the
s;eambox then dumped into it mixed
with hran ana sai., and steamed He
has fifty horses and rot one OF them has
had the influenza. ! do not say that
this feeding has prevented it, but l do
say that thi. fact psuror that animals fed
on cooked food are not more liable to di
cease. l believe further that iG is an
economical plan and that no farmer keeps
his animals at less cost than Mr.. Cro-
zicr at the same time never saw any,
where more active or more healthy look
iag stock. Mr. Cotton had been study
ing the chemistry OF cooking food, aid
had come to these conclusions Steam
ing food is of value in the straws of grain
like wheat, rye, and barley, merely to
soften their fiinty nature in cornstalks
ard roots it changes the starch into grape
sugar or dias.ase, which is soluble and
readily digestible in the stomach. Hence
it renders such foods more nourishing and
warming. | conceive difference be-
tween the method for steaming and that
Of cooking in wster-Erchange.
We read of an elopement remarkable
for some of its particulars which has iust