Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-07-18
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One hundred pounds OF corn makes
ca quarts OF meal; leo pounds Of cars
will grind out 80 quarts Of meal. Sew
cHty-ose per cent. Of the corn and p
per cent. OF the cobs il digestable.
As we are more used TO reckoning
by bushels and the price or value APP
pearing clearer, it may seem better to
write that having the corn dry enough
10 grind, : pounds Of ears, after being
shelled snG ground will average 50
pounds or one bushel OF meal or 81
quarts containing nutriiive or digest
able matter So pounds.
Now our eastern or round corn i
much richer than the western or flat
corn, and as the cobs from bushel con-
tain eleven pounds Of digestable matter
We are actually wasting large percen-
tsge OF grain in shelling our corn before
having it ground tor feed. We can ex
tend our meal by grinding up the cobs
with the corn aud at the same time
have q richer fodder than 10y using
clear Western corn; Il pounds Of dry
ears making Go quarts of cob meal. In
using this mixture We place bulk
against weight, the cobs being Of value
and the corn better, we have almost
twice the return of the fat variety.
Illinois and Iowa, which are two OF
the best corn growing states, yield per
acre about 80 bushels; here in Maine
the return is nearer 30 bushels, because
We plant closer and take better care OF.
our crops, but the actual return per
acre is much greater for we have from
- bushels of Western corn $40 quarts Of
meal and from the same quantity OF
round corn We should have ! $50 quarts
OF meal oI equaI Ieedlng yalue.
II has been thought that the climate
o: Maine was not suitable for raising
corn probably. though some farmers
have always had their acre. This sea
son will probably prove the contrary for
a much larger area has been planted
than ever before, and il now remains
for use 10 get the most We can from onr
crops and for the millers to prepare to
grind our corn in the way that will be
the most profitable 20 u.
There is a grist mill within a few
rods of my farm bnt unless the miller
can and will grind my corn M way, |
should send seven miles to another mill
that can and will DO the same and do
the work as | wish il done, and firmly
believe that shall make money by so
doing, for this cob meal is not theory
but fact, having been proved BY repeat
ed experiments in feeding.
The price of Western corn il now low
and il Is more than likely 10 remain SO
through the year with probable lower
price next season. The reason for thus
thinking 50 Is that last years crop was
the largest ever before grown, followed
by much larger area planted the pres
cnt year. The crop of Western corn
does not begin to move until FEBRUARY
the height of trade being in the summer
following; prices usually rule the low
est in July with a cent to two cents ad-
vance in August and September. With
Us the price advances but little during
the fall, serious change occurrin.
about the time or 50 on after navigation
closes.
Now we get more than double as
much per acre in feeding value as the
Western farmers; our corn is more leafy
and by being planted closer there is
more fodder per acre; in weight per-
haps four IONS when we'll dried and
equal TO swale hay for fodder.
Experiments in cntting wheat have
proved that the best and the most -four
is made when cut Just a. the stalk turns
yellow below the head and from that
fact have thought that corn was better
if cut earlier than most of Us have done
Reasoning from this fact have cut nv
corn ana stocked il in the field when
the kernal was fairly glazed and think
| have got better corn thereby. That
which has been cut early is brighter
than the part allowed 10 stand and seems
better every way, though the results
are not as yet very definite, having
tried the experiment but four years, and
until this year having had less than an
ache in all the kinds planted. | have
seen it written that fodder was better
after having been frosted while grow
ing, but my experiments do not justify
me in thinking SO as | find that my
stock seem TO do best when l cut the
corn about the first of September and
haul it to the barn TO slow away some
time during the last part. l find corn
fodder to be different from hay in the
fact that rain does not hurt it in the
field, when well stocked and that
mould or must seems to make the cows
eat it better without having the least
bad effect on the milk.
Last winter did not feed any hay
until after the first of January and l
am in hopes to have enough fodder
corn TO carry me through The coming
winter. / have but five cows but if my
experiments continue to prove success
full shall be justified ia doubling my
number another year.
1 think now that an acre of corn and
Q quarter of an acre of butts will keep