The Red Cloud chief., 1884-11-07
DO Apples Ipjure Mich C0wsi

The lack of intercourse among dairy
men, and farmers generally, socially
and through the press, is a serious OBJ
staclc TO the circulat on of useful infor-
mai on. which greatly retards progress
in the whole business OF agriculture.
So few read agricultural papers, or
have frequent conference with those en-
ragged in sim lar lines OF business, that
IL takes a great while for items familiar
to some 10 become known to others.
Fifteen wears ago every agricultural ed
itor was every week or two piled with
the question: ..Will corn meal dry up
mich cows" IL took four or five years
to ..dry up the inquiry 81 that it only
came at considerable intervals. We
seems now to understand that corn
meal is AN excellent milk-producing
food. and only dres up the Low when
fed too freely. A similar inquiry in re.
gard 10 apples has gone the rounds of
the press for several years long
enough and often enough. il would
seem. 10 be familiar TO the most iso-
lated owner of a COW but the questi,n
still comes. = The owner of a small
dairy says: Il have a large orchard
for the size of my farm, and. for the
first time in several years, it is loaded
down W tn apples. / have more wind
fails and fru { not fit for barreling than
| know what to do with. l could sell
them at the cider mill, four-and a-half
miles distant, for fifteen cents a hum
bred 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 well on them. ard my
cows would take the rest If would
I do them any good. or woul&{not dry
up Their milk. Would they Nave any
value for cow feed, or what had / bet
ter d. with them%'
Reply Apples are inst as good for
COWS Is for pigs. but they can not. like
al LJitnm. They must be dealt out To
them according to the judgment OF the
feeder. A half-bushel per COW daily.
i'm two feeds. would be used with adj
vantage. The writer once fed thirty
six cows running to pasture. each PEI
day. a peck of common apples. for for
ty-iive days. and the daily milk and
cheese, esfd of the season showed a
poddsso h Of $50 pounds of cured
sieese due TO ieeding the apples, equal
q seventeen inc of cheese from each
lushel of apples. which was worth. as
dairy CHEESE is now, ten cents = pound.
The whey ron the increase of milk TO
make that mOun of cheese, reckoned
at 80 cents per 1000 pounds, was worth
So. go. making the total product from
iO5 bushels OF apples fed, S45. 80. equal
10 IL cents per bushel. 1t cost less
trouble to feed the apples to the cows
than to deliver them ut a 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 rs valuable TOR but
tei as for cheese production. Our o
respondent does not say whether he
mikes butter or cheese. but whichever
Ind makes, he need not be afraid of in
turing the flow of milk or DAMAGING
tie quality of his products by giving
his cows a moderate daily feed OF APP
pies.
4 Over a cons. derahle extent of coun-
try where cows are a leading item in
1.-THE management of the farm, the apple
crop is this year very large, and the
fruit good. and thousands of bushes
are lying on the ground and going to
waste, which. but for the foolish scare
aboa. their driving up milk, might be
turned TO good account. and it seems .
pity that they should\ be wasted.
Feeding u COWS or pigs is not. how
ever, always the most profitable way of
disposing of all the apples not iis for
barreling or market. There is q
medium quality OF apples between
those merchantable and those which
generally 90 for cider. that are worth
more for evaporating than for feed ne.
Apparatus for drying fruit is now SO
cheap and convenient. aud operates
with so much facility and. ease, that it
pays those who have apples pretty
plenty t proeure q 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 e~vaporated than when
sold green.-N0tionat Lirc-StecE yOHr.
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