New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-13
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
USEFUL INFoRMATIoNF THE
FARMER.
Acorn Meal Experlment--The Sci
ence Of Dairy observation-disclosures
Uses of Eggs Flowing With
Horses.
a Corn Meal Experiment.

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"A Corn Meal Experiment.
/ q have but one lamp by which to
/ guide my feet, said Patrick Henry on
a notable occasion, "and that's the
lamp of experience So many others
lcould say besides the eloquent Virgin
ian. Sometimes it's our own expert
ence. Sometimes that of others, that
height of folly to shut our eyes to the
! light because it is shed by some other
luminary than our own feeble rush
light.
It is an unsettled question, for ex-
ample, among a large number of farm
ers. whether it pays or not to mix
grain feed to dairy COWS with wet cut
fodder. But it is unsettled because
they are careless and indifferent, or
unwilling to listen to the teachings of
experience. Here is the difficulty with
many farmers-the reason why they
are not more progressive and success
full. They hobble along in the old
ways and refuse to let the clamp of
experience shed its clear rays over
their pathway to light them on to
better and more profitable methods.
Here is a case in point. A writer
| for the Country Gentleman relates
| that more than twenty years ago he
tried q simple experiment. to deter
/ mine the effect OF feeding finely ground
corn meal to cows, separate from the
hay. In order to make the trial a
thorough one, he took ten cows, and
fed them for thirty days with four
| quarts of corn meal dry, in one feed
ateyening, following with clover hay,
and began to note the results. After.
feeding for three days, he found shat
some OF the yellow corn meal passed
into the droppings, SO as to be plain
| " visible to the naked eye. Atintervals
during the thirty days portions of
| the droppings were examined under a
| microscope, and it was found that
particles of meal were distributed
through them. The hay fed was the
best clover, and the milk was carefully
weighed daily, and the butter product
noted.
| At the end of the thirty days he be-
gan to mix the four quarts OF meal
with a bushel OF cut and moistened
clover hay, and continued this for
thirty days also. After the third day
no meal could be discovered with a
magnifier in the droppings, showing
| that perfect assimilation of the food
was taking place. And gradually the
milk and butter, especially the latter,
increased, SO that at the end of the
second thirty days, on comparing the
results in butter, the increase was
found to be a little over l6 per cent.
| This is one OF many similar expert
| ences which have been made sknownto
] thesgeneralapublic through the press
and otherwise, and yet there are
farmers who declare that it makes no
difference, practically, whether the
meal is fed dry or moist, mixed with
! wet hay. The assertion is probably
due to ignorance; but here, at least,
| it is untrue that where ignorance is
bliss, tbs folly to be wise.''
The Science of Dairy Breeding.
The science of breeding has been APP
| piled to our dairy breeds, says the
Western Agriculturist, and we have
high-record families from close breed
ing Of the best milking animals.
The breeders OF Holland and Jersey
have bred for the dairy for a hundred
years, but have not looked to the high
records as have our breeders who
] have imported these cattle, and with
their established dairy breeds been
able by breeding together the best
high-record animals that have aston
ished the world and inbred these his h
record characteristics to such an ex-
tent that they reproduce the high.
record qualities to a. remarkable
| degree.
Prof. Nathrost, OF Sweden, is oc-
cupied with the question how to aug
ment the richness OF the milk, without
diminishing the quantity. He totally
| objects to crossing breeds of mich
cows to effect that end. He has tried
the union Of the Jerseys and the
Dutch OF F'riesian races, but there
suit was illusory. Next he studied the
question OF alimentation, and nat
urally noted thatsrlch ratlOns tended
to rich milk, but they did not at all
! increase the secretion inythe case Of
cows yielding rich milk. Ultimately
The decided to analyze the percentage
Of fat in the milk yield by each COW Of
Dutch breed. He found much varia-
ton under this head. But he selected
the best butter animals, and, breeding
from them, has now q most satisfact-'
DRY shed OF dairy stock. THERE'S.
| nothing new in the principle; patience,
time and careful atten ton will develop
and increase good points, perhaps, ia
every animal.
Poultry Points.
Darling about hither and thither
through the short grass we saw /, 700
young chickens. Just think Of that!
The little things are mostly Matched
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