The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
Do Apples IBiure Mich COusi

The lack of intercourse among dairy
mon, and farmers generally, socially
and through the press, is a serious OBJ
stacle to the cireulat;on of useful infor-
mat on, which greatly retards progress
IN the whole business of agriculture.
So few read agricultural papers, or
have frequent conference with those en-
gagged in sim lar lines of BUSINESS, that
it takes great while for items familiar
to some to become known to others.
Fifteen years ago every agricultural ed
itor was every week or two piled with
the question: ''Will corn meal dry up
mich cows?" 1t took four or five wears
to dry up the inquiry So that it only
came at considerable intervals. We
see no more of it now Everybody
meal is an excellent producing
food, and only dries up the fow when
fed too freely. A similar inquiry in re-
gard to apples has gone the rounds of
the press for several years = long
enough and often enough, it would
seem, to be familiar to the most iso-
lated owner of COW, but the question
still comes. The owner of a small
dairy says: 81 have large orchard
for the size of my farm, and, for the
first time in several years, it is loaded
down with apples. / have more Wind
falls and fru not fit foR barreling than
| know what to do with. / could sell
them at the cider mill, four-and a-half
miles distant, for fifteen cents hun
dred weight, but this would not tally
with my temperance principles, nor
pay for the labor of picking and haul
ing. My pigs take all they will eat,
and are doing we'll on them, ard my
COWS would take the rest if they would
do them any good, or would not dry
up Their milk. Would they have any
value for COW feed, or what had I bet
ter do with them?''
Reply Apples are just as good for
cows as for pigs, but they can not, like
pigs, be permitted to help themselves
Gd ttbitam. They must be dealt out to
them according to the judgment of the
feeder. A half-bushel per cow daily,
in two feeds. would be used with adj
vantage. The writer once fed thirty
six cows running to pasture. each per
ty-five days, and the daily milk and
cheese record of the season showed a
production of 430 pounds of cured
cheese due to feeding the apples, equal
to seventeen ounces of cheese from each
bushel of apples, which was worth, as
dairy cheese is now, ten cents pound.
The whey from the increase of milk to
make that amount of cheese, reckoned
at 70 cents per 1000 pounds, was worth
$3.50, making the total product from
405 bushels OF apples fed, $500 equal
to IL cents per bushel. 1t cost less
trouble to feed the apples to the cows
than to deliver them at cider-mill,
though one was quite convenient. We
have no statistics of results from apples
fed to cows when making butter, but
consider them quite as valuable for but
ter as for cheese production. Our COR
respondent does not say whether he
makes butter or cheese, but whichever
he makes, he need not be afraid of in
Turing the flow of milk or damaging
the quality of his products by giving
his COWS moderate daily feed of APP
Piles.
Over considerable extent of coun-
try where COWS are a leading item in
the management of the farm, the apple
crop is this year very large, and the
fruit good. and thousands of bushels
are lying on the ground and going to
waste, which, but for the foolish scare
about their drying up milk, might be
turned to good account, and it seems a
pity that they should be wasted
Feeding to COWS or pigs is not, how
ever, always the most profitable way of
disposing of all the apples not fit for
barreling or market. There is a
medium quality of apples between
those merchantable and those which
generally 60 for cider, that are worth
more for evaporating than for feeding.
Apparatus for drying fruit is now SO
cheap and convenient. and operates
with so much facility and ease, that it
pays those who have apples pretty
plenty to procure a small evaporation
and dry the fruit on the farm. 1t often
happens that all the good fruit. not
wanted for the use of the family will
pay better when evaporated than when
sold green.-NationaI Lice Stock Jour-
nal.