Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-23
COARSE FODDERS.
To Make the Most of Them They Should
he Fed with the Richer Grains.

To Make the Most Of Them They Should
he Fed with the Richer Grains.
1t is true that neither men nor ami
mails can retain perfect health upon
n too concentrated diet. The apimal
system needs n good deal of water to
keep the parts in a healthful and com
Portable condition. Milk is seven
cighths water, yet it is a perfect food,
The water of the milk is not digcsted,
but it greatly helps digestion. 1t not
only fills up, but it lubricates the inter
nal organs and prevents injury from
friction.
The coarse material, the woody
fiber of straw and the poorer folders,
however, has another use than merely
to fill or extend the stomach or intcS-
tines of our cattle. Woody fiber is di-
gcsted, and consequently is food, as is
the seed Of the plants.
Actual feeding experiments have
shown that h%crbivorous animals car
obtain s|nstcnancc from the twigS OF
trees. and ever from Saw-dust; and
| chemistry has explained the fact and
| taught us how it is done. The chemists
| tell us that the wood fiber can be
| changed into starch and then into
| sugar. both digCstiblc. The OK can
change fiber into starch and sugar with
his digestive organs without the aid of
the chemist.
There are four principal substances
in all foods the albuminoids, the car
b~o-hydrates, the ash and the fats. The
first are useful in making muscle, lean
meat and milk; the second in supply
ing the body with its heat-it is the
fuel Of the system; the ash is largely
lime and aids in building up the frame
work, the bone; the fats yield fuel and
are useful other ways.
Some foods are rich in apart of these
substances and poor in others, A per-
feet food has them all and in the right
proportion for the animals fed. The
proportion not only may but should
vary according to the character and
age of the animals. The young grow
ing calf needs a different food from
that of an old or an idle OK. The milch
cow requires a different food from the
fattCEing steer.
We have known farmers who fed
their best English hay in winter tc
their oxen, while the COWS had to take
up with the dry, weather-bcatcn corr
slower and swalc hay. The cows in
milk must have food that will max,
milk or they will 20 dry or grow poor
The idle OK may be fed upon the coars,
folders containing much woody mate.
rial without losing flesh, for idlenes.
does not not use up flesh, and the o,
needs little but the heat producing sub
stance.
Mr.. Stewart, in his work on cattl,
feeding, calculates that oxen when idl,
may be we'll sustained upon food tina
contains but II pound of albuminoid
or flesh formers to twelve pounds o
carbohydrates or heat producers, Will,
the cow in milk would need one poun,
OF albuminoids to each five and a hal
pounds of heat-producing food.
The best Of pasture grass or earl,
, cnt mixed upland hay represents a per
feet feed for mich cows and GROWN,
cattle. Good hay that is a little ripe
represents q perfect food for an OK o
horse that is moderately worked
These foods contain the flesh and tn,
, fire, so to speak, in the right proper
| ton.
The lesson we should learn from
, these facts is that we should so fee,
c our various animals that there shall b
5 neither lack of the needed substance
n nor any excess Of either to be wasted
C II we give a coarse, poor hay or STRAY
Z only, even If fed these in large quaint
q ties, they can not be well sustaine,
without eating an excess of one sinh
stance to get enough of the other. an,
this excess is a waste, a dead loss g
y far as the animals are concerned I
II we give ovcr-rich food as clear grain
the waste is still greater, because sucI
Q food is more costly.
d Farmers make a great mistok, yh
l. look upon the coarse folders Of III
Is farm as mere "flling." They sbonl,
y save the swale grasses, the grain stray
ana The corn stover almost As n re
. llglous duty, for to nccdlcssly waste i
& To make the most of our coarse fod
o ders they must be fed with the ricbo
grains, or with the rich refuse maio
/" r'als' as meal from the oil mills mr. oar,
'e sugar MANUFACTURES. W. NAV MIA
'e feed them to our idle teams in w;n,o
y with economy and real advantage :,
;. the animals. s' Y
IL a horse standing idle through III
TO winter will come out in be,,sr La. y.
is IN the spring II fed on a large nr r,m,,,
ton o. coarse feed than u alyen an -.
cess u Hrsin,-M Y Hrsg "" Va