The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-13
OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERT
MENT STATION.
Newspaper Bulletin, No. 81.
Deep and Shallow Cultivation Of COrn--
Whey of Milk a Feed for Plgs--Its
Value and Best Manner of Use.

Whey Of Milk Feed for PigS-.Its
Value and Best Manner of Use.
Bulletin No. ii of the Missouri
experiment station (Columbia,) is
devoted to report on experiments
with corn made in 1890. In these
experiments trial of deep and
shallow tillage gave an increase Of
over fourteen bushels per acre, or
twenty-one per cent. of the entire
yield, in favor of shallow tillage in
1889, and nearly thirteen bushels,
or thirty per cent, of the yield in
1890. The implement used for shall
low tillage was made expressly for
this experiment, and has a number
of knives running an inch or more
under the surface, loOsening the
soil and effectually destroying the
weeds in its path, but not lifting
the soil sufficiently to cover the
weeds in the hill unless quite small,
The Illinois experiment station
at Champaign has made similar
experiments, in which the average
increase in favor of shallow culture
was nearly eight bushels per acre
over a period of three years.
The Ohio experiment station has
conducted similar experiments,
using u cultivator not so we'll adapt
ed to the purpose as the one de-
scribed, but with results also in fa-
vor of shallow tillage.
The Missouri bulletin, already
quoted, also reports series of eX-
periments instituted for the pur-
pose of determining the most profit
able amount of culture for corn.
The results Of these experiments,
and they are in harmony with sim
liar tests made at the experiment
stations Of Illinois, New York and
Ohio, indicate that nothing is
gained by cultivating incessantly.
If the weeds are kept down and
the ground is cultivated sufficiently
to prevent hard crust forming
two or three workings will pro-
duce as large a yield as half a doz-
en-.
FEEDING VALUE OF WHEY.
Four trials were conducted at the
Wisconsin experiment station dur
ing the fall of 1S90-9l, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the value OF
sweet whey for pig feeding. The
results of these trials show:
First-We were not successful in
maintaining pigs on whey alone.
Second-Pigs fed on corn meal
and shorts with water required 552
pounds of the mixture for 100
pounds of grain.
Third-When whey was added to
the corn meal and shorts mixture
it produced marked saving in the
amount of grain required for good
gains. This was true for mixtures
varying from two pounds of whey
to one of grain, up to ten pounds OF
whey to one of grain.
Fourth-It was found when using
whey as a partial substitute foI
grain, that 760 pounds of whey eff
fected saving of 100 pounds of the
corn meal and shorts mixture.
Fifth-Using these figures, il
corn meal and shorts are valued at
$12 per ton, then whey is worth
eight cents per hundred pounds; at
$l4 per ton for the corn meal and
shorts, whey would be worth ten
cents per hundred weight.
Sixth-Shorts, pea meal and oil
meal, or like feeds, should be mixed
with whey for growing animals,
Some corn may be fed at all times,
the proportion increasing as the
animal approaches maturity.
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