The Red Cloud chief., 1880-12-30
How to Feed Corn.

IT Is a growing belief in this country
that our annual corn crop can be more
probably fed To growing stock than to
he sold as the larger proportion Is now.
A crop of 800. 900. 900 bushels of corn
is not produced without n great loss of
fertility, and as we send 1OO,ooo,o 900
bushels I o Europe to feed fattening cat
tie there, could we not better by far
feed this surplus corn and ship them
the beef? This corn that we export
would feed two million steers, and the
difference i'm freight alone would amount
to no inconsiderable sum-, not to take
into account the enormous amount OF
fertilizipg material it would supply to
our lands. an article we are forced TO
buy in fabulous quantities. How to
feed this corn so that the labor of husk-
inr. grinding and consequent wastes
NAV DE vastly diminished is a problem
that is being slowly solved, and Prof.
f. w. Stewart, together with Others
new asserts that the most inexpensive
way and a plan not only attended with
economy, but also with better results
and increased nutrition, is to cut the
stalks and orr together and feed to the
cattle in this form.
When large droves Of cattle are fed
the droves are frequently turned into
the fields of uncut corn. but though
thew may be followed by hogs, the loss
of grain and the almost total destruc-
ton of the fodder is n wastcful way at
best; and even when the cattle r
stabbed and fed. the cost OF grinding
such quantities of corn, and h separ-
ate handling of the stalks. more than
balance the loss of feeding whole grain.
II the grain. when so fed. could be so
combined with other food as to be
raised and masticated with the chewing
| of the cud, il would be its own guard
AGAINST loss. but as the contrary Is the
fact. it is now proposed to remedy this
by running the corn, with its stalks I'M
husked, through a powerful cutter.
which. by its rapid descending strokes,
will cut the food into minute particles,
so that in the process OF feeding or
mastication they cannot become sep
arated.
It will be noticed that this combined
feeding of the grain and its stalk is the
true principle Of economic feeding for
beef. and as there can be nc refuse, the
almost ~powder-like condition Of the
fodder making it soft and to be relished
bv the stock, its probability in thus far
undisputed. To adopt it requires pow
er, and a machine to reduce the fodder
to its proper form, but when the cost OF
husking. shelling. grinding. waste OF
grain and fodder is all taken into &C
count, and il is balanced b. the ease
and reduced expense with which an
| acre of corn is made into unquestiona-
bic food. the expense of the new plan
| sinks into insigniticance IS compared
with the old laborious way--Erchdnge-
A HoLsrEIN peasant. u~ninstructed IN
m-icroscopical research. and not pos.
sessing the requisite instruments OF
| precision. has devised for himself n new
ties. for discovering the presence OF
| trichine in pork. When he killed = pig
be Was careful to send \ portion Of &
| a ham or 4 sausage-to his pastor. and
then waited the consequences for four
teen days. II his pastor remained
healthy. then he felt perfectly easy in
his mind and well assured that his pig
fulfilled the requisite conditions OF
sountiuess Of food, and he proceeded to
dispose of it accordingly in his own
family. This ingenious method of re-
search has not been considered satisfac-
Tory hr tho district phvsie;au