The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-07
Do Apples Injure Mich Cows!

The lack of Intercourse among dairy
men, and farmers generally, socially
aud through the press, is a serious OBJ
stacle to the circulat 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 M lar lines of business, tGat
IT takes great while for items familiar
to some to become known to others.
Fifteen wears ago every agricultural ed
itor was every week or two piled with
the question: "Win corn meal dry up
mich cows" II took four or five years
to dry - the inquiry 50 that it only
came At considerable intervals. We
see no more OF it now. Everyb 'dy
seems now to understand that corn
meal is an excellent milk-producing
food. and only dr.es up the f,ow when
fed too freely. \ 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 quest, n
still comes The owner of a small
dairy says: Il have large orchard
for the SIZE of my farm, and. Tor the
first time in several years, it is loaded
down W tn apples. / have more wind
fails and fru not fit for barreling than
l know what TO do with. l could sell
them at the cider mill, four-and a-half
miles distant. for fifteen cents hun
dred-we ght, but this W u d not tally
with M temperance princ. pies. nor
pay for tie labor of picking and haul
ing. NY pigs take all they viii eat,
and are doing well on them. AID my
cows would take the rest # they would
do them any good, or would not dry
up ther MIX. Would they have any
value for cow feed, or what had 1 bet
ter d. with them?"
Reply-AppleS are lust as good for
cows as for pigs, but they can not. Ike
pigs. be permitted to help themselves
al ttbitaGl. 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 ad-
vantage. The writer once fed thirty
six COWS running to pasture. each Pc
day. q peck of common apples. for for
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 % cents per !, 900 pounds, was worth
$3.50, making the total product from
405 bushels or apples fed, 90. equal
TO III cents per bushel. 1t cost less
trouble 10 feed the apples TO the cows
than 10 deliver them at 4 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 TOR but
ter as for cheese production Our cor
respondent does not say whether he
makes butter or cheese, 6ut whichever
he makes, he need not be afraid of in
juring the flow of mix or damaying
tie quality OF his products by giving
his COWS moderate daily iced OF APP
piles
Over considerable extent OF coun-
try where COWS are 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 living on the ground and go:ng to
waste. which, but for the foolish scare
abort their drying up milk, might be
turned 10 good account. and it seems
pity that they should be wasted
Feedingt7 cows or pigs is not. how
ever, always the most profitable way of
disposing OF all the apples not liz for
barreling or market. There is
medium quality OF apples between
those merchantable and those which
generally 90 for cider. that are worth
more for evaporatiny than for feed ne.
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 ali the good fruit not
wanted for the use of the family will
pay better when evaporated than when
sold green.-AaEi0HGl Lire Stock Jour.
nal.