The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Cooked and Raw Corn for Pigs.

Cooked and Raw Corn for Pigs.
The value of cooked corn as COM
pared with corn in the raw state has
been the subject of experiment by Prof.
Shelton, Of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College. In a report issued the
figures given show as conclusively as
figures can show anything, that the
cooked corn is less useful than the raw
grain, the difference IN favor of I'M
cooked corn, taking the item of pounds
of feed required to make one pound Of in
crease, amounting to exactly one-hfth.
That this result is not an accident Prof.
Shelton thinks is abundantly proven by
, other items Of the summary.
The daily consumption Of each pig
using cooked feed was almost exactly
the same as the amount of raw corn
used in the pens where raw corn was the
exclusive food, but the average daily
gain--and of course the total gain and
the gain per hundred weight of pig
were in the series using the cooked feed
greatly less than with the pigs using the
raw corn. "Such an entire unanimity
of results can only be explained" says
Prof. Shelton, "upon the theory that
the cooking was an injurious process so
far as its use for fattening animals is
concerned. With younger animals,
whose gain would be made chiefly in
growth, the cooked feed might give
different results from the foregoing;
but considerable general experience
does not encourage this belief"
Nothing has been said here about the
cost of cooling--always considerable
item, both in respect to labor and cost
of fuel-Nelo York World.
Oats are one of the scvorcst crops il
taxing fertility that the farmer grows.
They ripcn late, and these two facts
combined make them an undesirable
crop to preccde wheat. The production
of n crop of oats takes the same kind O
clements as wheat crop, and after it il
off the soil is pumped dry of the fooi
that the growing wheat plant needs. TIL,
difficulty is aggravated if any effort i
made to sow tho wheat early. Thi
means blowing and seeding with littl,
preparation, and with probably tw'
grains of scattering oats for every one o
wheat to come up and contest with tn
moro valuable grain for what food Their
is. The oat plant grows with large
broad leaf, which quito overshadow
the wheat until the frost kills it. Tn
only way to get good wheat crops afte
oats is to harvest the latter very early
cutting rather green, and getting tn
crop in with as little shelling as posi-
Bile. Then plow at once, and afterwar
pulverize, roll, and harlem the surfac
by cultivation for two, or, if possible
three weeks before seeding. In thi
way not only will good seed bed b
obtained, but some plant food will b
developed. The oats which hav
scattered will be cultivated under tn
surface, and thus increase both moistur
and fertility. We would have this don
thoroughly. even if the preparation dc
laycd seeding until the last day
September or carly in October. No della
in sowing wheat after oats is prejudici;
to the crop if the time is judiciously OF
cupicd in preparing the seed bed. Whe
everything is ready drill in 200 pound
of phosphate with the seed. No matt,
how rich the land, it will not brin
good wheat after oats without an add
tional supply of phosphate.
sugar Beets for Stock.
The cultivation of the beet-root fl
sugar making has attained immense pr,
portions in some parts of Europe, IL,