The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-24
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We end a statement Of J. ii. S,
in the Nclo England Homestead, on
feeling fodder corn 20 cOws a4e
found the pounds Of green corn a
COW would eat in a day. lie says
"For eight cows / began wheeling
the corn 70 them by the wbeeloarro"
load. This was slow work, as tne
COWS would consume one Load WINE
was after the other. i then TOOK 1t
70 hem bv the wagon load, keeping
he cows in at night One small
w.gon load would not suffice. l
,bo1gbt | would ike 10 know how
many tons n COW could 60 through
in a dav. ! weighed q load and
found il TO be two thousand three
hundred and forty-fve pounds ana
on Saturday ) p. m, the eight co"s
were set TO work. Let me say iur-
Their. that they were not starved TOT
for,y.eigbt or t~wenty-four hours prior
20 This. but were well hlled st the
time of beginning the fast. At p
M the stalks were turned over TO
,bem until they were foil, and enough
for their lunch during night left with
IN reach. They were let out for water
90 Sanday, but were not dry, only
Two INDUCING. They were FED three
times on Sunday. None wonid drink
on Monday. Again they we're led
turing Monday. At 5 p. m, The
wbo,e load. two thousand two hun
dred and forty-fve pounds, was con
sumed. an average Of n hundred
and forty-six and one-half pounds
Ter dsy, or each cow ate W hun
dred aud n~inety-tbres pounds in the
rortr-cight hours, and was not IN
comfortable either. The COWS Fhrank
during tue time about three pounds
each. The corn sowed vas ONO
mixed: at the time Of cutting it was
fully ten feet high. From August ],
my u%aefures have increased, owing TO
keeping COWS off at night. ] regard
Grass as better for mich cJws than
fodder. unless yoH are making butler.
( sell milk 10 town, aud to produce It
in large quantities | feed brewers
malt this produces a large How oi
moor TACTICAL duid,' but followed up
with meal or corn and oats ground
together. il makes q large how Of
GOOD milk. 4 cannot afford, these
hard times. to buy meal, so feed
sowed corn (cut and fed green), which
answers every purpose, and Is much
cheaper"
The amount Of fodder corn a COW
will eat. according to the above state
ment, is certainly very large; but we
must remember that this food is very
iuicv, holding a large per centage of
water. II we are to take tie baking
experiment Of the jovisl president OF
The New York Agricultural Society.
Harris Lewis, the one hun 1red aud
Forty-si1 and one-half pounds Of corn
contained only about eleven and
three-quarter pounds Of dry food,
which would be a rather small allow
ance. after all, fer a good sized COW,
since sh- will eat twenty-five TO thir-
" pounds Of weIl-cured hay per day,
in winter. But the probability Is,
chat our friend Lewis carried the
driving process to q very great eX-
ereme. having e2rbonized a large pro-
portion Of the woody fibre; and when
corn is dried at a moderate beat, II
viii be found to contain, iG rs most
~succulent state, sixteen TO eighteen
pounds Of dry substance in q hun
bred pounds, which would give about
tEenty -four pounds of dry food to
each COW in the above experiment,
cnd this would be just equal to
tweaty-nine pounds Of air dried bag.
We have tested cows with clover
"a IFS most Wstery state, and found
Jacy would each eat one hundred
pounds per day. This gave about
The same amount Of dry substance as
one hundred aud forty-siK pounds Of
green corn; as clover will dry out
about seyenty-fve per cent. But j.
4. 5. NAV congratulate himself on
feeding even one hundred and forty
six pounds OF green corn per day; for
i hi. corr Wes ordinarily thick on
the ground, and Tn feet high, be had,
no doubt, thirty to0s per acre, which
would feed 8 COW four hundred aud
ten days to the acre, thus making an
acre feed 4 COW thirteen and ore~balf
months. What crop will do better
Ihan this?-LjUe Stock Journal.