St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-12-13
GRINDING FEED.


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While there arc circumstances rnder
which grinding grain would DC un-
profitable. says the Farm and Home, as
for example when corn is cheap, as 1t
was last season, especially IN the trans
Mississippi States, and mills few, and
the charge for grinding high. the cost
for grinding would represent nearly or
quite half the cash value Of the corn.
but when the price of corn is above
fifty cents per bushel. instead OF fifteon
or twenty, and grinding can be done
convenie ntly and chcaply, it will un-
doubtedly pay.
With cheap corn and hogs to follow
the cattle, there is very little loss.
even though much Of the com passes
through the animal undigested. The
advantage of grinding tho food il that
It is more perfectly digested. aad II, In
addition to grinding. the hay or straw
is chaffed, and the ground feed mixed
with it. the result is to render tho
rough feed moro palatable, and. the
ground feed being mixed With it. 10
raised and remassicated and I'll tho
food improved by the process.
A very interesting and convinx Nc cx-
pertinent was made some years ego BY
the London Omnibus COMPANY. They
were feeding about three thou ussnd
horses on whole oats and long hay. and
had figured out to the fraction Of . cent
what it cost to feed them. and when
they began feeding cut hay and grourd
oats mixed and fed as chop they found
. saving Of ten cents per horse. or three
hundred dollars per day. One thing
further has been fully settled and that
Is that corn ground. cob and all. makes
. better feed for cattle than whom tho
grain alone 10 ground. This has been
tho subject Of careful experiment 1t
moro than one Of the experiment Sta
tions. where every thing was done with
the utmost care, the food being weighed
out daily and tho stock weighed at
stated periods, and tho conclusion
reached was that . pound Of cob and
corn was worth as much - . pound Of
corn alone.
Tho value Of the cob seems to come
from the balancing Of the ration rather
than from the valpc Of the food con-
stituents in it. as chemical analysis OF
1he cob shows 1t to be little more VAL
liable than tho corn fodder. The cost
Of grinding has been greatly reduced
BY the introduction Of the steel mills.
which are geared to high rate Of speed.
five hundred revolutions q minute. and
run by the thresher engines. which
would otherwise be idle . good part e.
the winter. Mills costing frDm sixty
dollars to one hundred dollars will grind
from twenty to fifty bushels an hour.
and at . cost Of from four to six cents .
bushel Of seventy pounds
For the feeding Of colts and calves
and in fact all growing animals. bran
is one of the best ground foods, and
usually the most economical A pound
of bran is worth more for young ami
mails than . pound Of corn. or . fins
middling, as 1t contains tho material
required for tho making Of bone and
muscle. which is just what the growing
animal needs This being true. and it
is as well established ~ any fact can
be. it will often pay tho farmer to buy
bran rather than corn, when he can get
fifty pounds or moro for the price Of
bushel of corn. To sum mp them. we
would say:
First-Grinding feed Is usually profit
ablc when the price Of grain II high.
Secoud-To get the hest results c3rn
should be ground with tho cob and
ground hne.
Third = Feeding tho grain vita
chafYed hay, straw, or corn-iodder. adds
still more to its value.
FOurth-When food must be puf-
chased, the wise farmer will often tsy
bran and oil-meal which are already
ground, rather than corn.