The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-08

tba cattle were covered with frozen
manure: they were curleu up ana
~shiyerinp with the cold. Ii made
my teeth chatter 10 look at them
and. when | asked for some water
for my horses. they told me THAI
their stock drank out OF hole back
Of the barn, but horses not useu 10
II would not drink II; they would
bring me some from the house. II
Is not strange the stock was I"'t'
but it IS strange that they &c
alive. Now look at the conditions
under which | fed the same KIND ol
HAY. The same morning, with the
thermometer below zero out of
doors, the one hanging behind Il
COWS stood at 40 degrees above zero;
the COWS were clean, and they had
clean and dry beds % he on; they
had an opportunity three times 4
day to drink as much good Well
water as they neutrality-suspicious.
Of the water about forty-slX degrees;
and they had the privilege of unnk-
mo in the barn, wherelt was warm.
The cows were comfortable, they
were at rest, and under these CON
ditions the SO hay kept them ~
fair condition, 1T acost OF. ten cents
per day.
Last vear the writer advised
those accustomed to feeding salt
and meadow hay with the result oi
poor stock IN the spring, to bu,
cotton-secd meal, to help utilize
the carbohydrates in the poor hay.
But, after another years experience
and observation, my first advice to
all such is, keep your stock warm
and give them all the good water
that they need, and see II the quail
tv of your hay is not good enough
TO keep animals That are comforta-
Die and at rest IN tar condition.
\ knowledge of the comparative
value of clear corn meal TO cob
neal, and also of the dltferel ce n
cedlng value Of our round home
crown corn and the flat Southern
nd Western corn, is very lmpor-
ant at this time, to help farmers
,ettlc the question whether 1t l.
Dest to grow corn. German eXpe-
| riments show that II per cent. of
clear corn meal is digestible, and
that % per cent. of corn cobs is d.
gestible matter. Ii we allow #
pounds of ears to give So pounds of
clear corn, 100 pounds of ears Will
give 15.6 pounds OF the corn and
24.4 pounds of cobs; $50 pounds
Of the corn and 12.6 pounds of the
cobs are digestlble, making CO..
pounds Of dlgestlble matter IN cob
meal, to II pounds IN clear meal,
or about as l3 to ii. 1t is well to
bear IN mind that most Of the d.
gestlble part Of corn cobs is carbo-
hydrates, and that to get the full
value of cob meal it needs to be fed
with other food rich IN albumi-
noIds.
Many are ready to admit that 100
pounds of cob meal, made from
round corn. is worth as much to
feed as 100 pounds of clear meal
made from flat corn. Some, after
changing from n to the other,
back and forth for several times,
claim that the same quantity by
measure Of cob meal Is worth as
much as the clear meal bought at
u mills. There are "a qu .rts in
100 pounds of clear meal, and So
quarts III 100 pounds of cob meal.
If a quart of our Northern cob meal
has the same feeding value that ii
quart of clear Western meal has,
then at the present time 100 pounds
OF cob meal are worth $3.50. Ny
experience hos led me to put the
value of 100 pounds Of ears in the
corn crib, when dry enough to
grind, at the price of meal per bag
at the mills. 1t costs us 20 cents
per 100 pounds to get our cob meal
ground. | think 100 pounds of it
worth for making milk, 20 cents
more than a bag Of the average meal
we get at the mills.
The value of the cObs, and the
difference IN quality between the
round and fiat corn, are important
items IN making up statements in
the cost and value of the corn 0
grown IN u county, and yet these
items have generally been over
looked. Take, for example, the
statement of James Z. King for
this year. He reports 1850 pounds
Of ears, allows 50 pounds of ears for
a bushel, and calls a bushel worth
20 cents, 80 bushels sG3. If | had
such corn crop "a that | should
say 800 pounds of ars worth in
crlb sl.35 per 100 pounds; cash
Nalup of corn SIO3 ~ The mo,