Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-21
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From the Pioneer Press, (Mipn.)
Feeding Oil Cake.

The Minnesota Linseed Oil Com
pany Of Minneapolis ships regularly
each week fifty tons of oil mea! to
England. This is largely purchased
by the British Agricultural Associa-
ton, whose headquarters are at Glas-
gov, Scotland, through which It is
distributed around among the men,
bers for feeding stock. There is no
market in Minnesota for it or in the
great States lying between il and the
seaboard, but English farmers can pay
it's first cost and the transportation on
it for 1000 miles by rail, 1900 by wa
ter, and still afford to feed it to their
stock, "Our farmers buy it in such
small quantities and at such great in
tervals that it is not worth while to
seek this home trade at ALL" say the
company, and SO they find a market
in the old world, four thousand five
hundred miles away.
| There it is a staple article of food
for stock. In addition to all that is
made at home, nearly $4,000 tons arc
imported yearly from this and other
countries. They begin its use with
calves and wind off with the beef for
Christmas, 1t being found with the
former that it supplies at a cheap
rate the fat furnished by the cream in
the milk. The rule for feeding calves
is somewhat after the following
Thirty quarts of boiling water are
poured on three quarts of linseed, and
four quarts of bean meal. 1t is then
covered up close, and in twenty -four
hours after added to thlrty-one quarts
of boiling water then on the fire,
pouring it in slowly and stirring
constantly to prevent Jumps. After
boiling 80 minutes it is put by for
use and given when the calf is two
weeks old, at first in small quantities
say one-fourth meal to three fourths
milk, progressing slowly in the in
crease of quantity so that by the end
of fortnight after it's use has been
begun, it will be equal parts: by the
end OF three weeks one and one-half
mucilage to one of milk; by the
fourth week two parts Of mucilage to
one of milk, thus continuing to in.
crease until by the tenth week, milk
can if desired, be wholly stopped
and the preparation substituted. A
little grass or hay, tied in bundles, is
suspended SO that they may play with
it; some pounded chalk mixed with
salt, given in their troughs to lick
which prevents acidity of the stomach
while Jumps of oil cake are also
thrown in which they soon learn to
chew. When three or four months
old they are enterely weaned, and
turned out to grass.
| In fattening for beef, the average
amount fed each bullock is from tc
lbs, though one representative OF
high feeding there advocates ~ lbs
daily. The cake is mixed and FED
with turnips, wheat barley, oat OF
other meal, together with hay anG
straw, rapid fattening being deemed
Essential to tender beef as we'll a.
profit; and it is to the free use OF
these rich, flesh-forming product.
that the Incompatible beef and NUT.
ton of the English market is largely
, due.
t Upon the subject Of feeding oil
cake, Hon. Jas. Wilson, in the Janu
ary NUMBER of the Western Stool
Journal, says:
; We exported last fiscal year $5,774,
$50 worth of oil-cake. The British
farmer can afford to send to the Mis-
sissippi Valley for oil-cakc to finisl
off his grass-fed cattle. Were thi.
fed to our half-fed cattle that are oft
en- sent to market, their grade would
be materially raised, as well as theil
weight increased, and our leading
fault as feeders, of shipping under
fed cattle remedied to a correspond
ing extent, besides retaining an ele
ment that makes the very richest ma
: nure for our fields.
Messrs. Daggett & Harper, Of OF
tumwa, arc manufacturing hun lreds
of tons of Oil Cake and are shipping
it to Liverpool. Will not our far.
mers read the above article, buy some
of this oil.cake, and profit thereby