Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-30
THE FARM AND HOME.
COB MEAL ABANDONED sf
WHOLE COMMUNITIES.
cobs Have Too Little Feeding Naiao W
Pay for Grinding -Transpiantlns
Trees = Poultry Pieklng
aud Home Hints.

John nj. StahL who Is q pFaeti0Al
farmer us we'll as an able writer
says: II have fed cob meal--made
three trials OF it-and have not been
able to get much feeding value rom
it" Waldo +. Brown IS an adVo.
cate OF cob meal but he admits that
at one institute in Ohio ha SOUND out
few advocates for it in large audit
ence. aud found many who considered
1t unfit TO feed. y
There was q cOb-meal craze about
forty years ago. IL broke out SUD
denly. like the smallpox or measles
attracted good deal OF attention - tue
time. says the Country Gentleman
ran its course and died out In 1898
my father who owned grist-mill at
the suggestion OF his miller and the
solicitation OF his customers built an
addition to his mill put in an extra
water-w wheel, and procured tho neces-
sary machinery for grinding corn and
cobs together. Tho expense was i've
or six hundred dollars and for time
it seemed TO be a profitable invest
ment He ground the corn tor his
regular customers. and attracted Gus
tom from other mills to such an extent
that they too had TO put in machinery
for grinding corn In the ear The ad'
dltional toll charged for grinding corn
and cobs together was not much the
mill was kept in good order and the
meal was ground us fine as possible
which lowing 70 the moisture ia tbs
cob) was not always very fine. and
the miller was honest; bat gradually
the corn-cob custom fell OF and ia
less than three years had ecased
entirely and the spiders spun their
webs unmolested over the cob.mIlL
II was the same with every mill 10
this part OF the country, shat put 10
the improvement" and do not
know Of single mill that nov has the
machinery for grinding cJrn IN the
ear.
What was the cause OF such a sur,
prising downfall In the popularity OF
cob meal and cob mills First be-
cause farmers. having glven the meat
fair trial became fully convinced
that the actual value OF cobs was 80
little that II did not pay TO have them
ground, and that corn Ia the ear
could not be ground so fine as the
shelled grain. Few farmers keep any
old corn over Most o. them com.
mence feeding the new crop NJ soon
as II IS husEed. aud continue feeding
until spring. and Il Is not possible to
grind corn and cobs rs fine az thsy
should DO ground 40 tho season tho
farmers want to feed the largest
amount The cobs retain moisture
much longer than tho grain. which
makes them grind hard and II IA nt.
tempt Is made 10 grind fine the mill
stones will begin 70 ruublo and
grumble. gla over 90 slower and
slower and unless they are raised and
allowed to grind coarss will ch,oke
up and stop with n full head OF water
on the wheel. Then they mus, 90
taken up and the glazing picked or
No class OF men were ever more
happy than millers when the cob
era was over and cob meal went
out OF fashion. There was no profit
In grinding 1t aud mtllers were
blamed for not grinding finer when
they did the best they could.
Let a person take cob and try
whiting II with knife, be will fIud
that on each side OF the cavities where
the kernels stood. extending 10 the
pith It Is full o. small thin circular
plates hard as hemlock knot Let
him examine the dung Of animals fed
on the cob meal and he will see these
hard sharp plates have not digested
and could not be digestod by the stom.
ach oil an ostrich, and he will be ant
to have doubts whether such stubborn
substances could pass through tho
long tortuous route OF the intestlnoa
without producing irritation. II no,
laceration. Inflammation and diarrhea.
My experience In feeding cob m.al IA
( probably rs great as that OF somo OF
the directors at the experiment sta
ton. but not like theirs favorable 10
its use. Every animal to which II
was fed endeavored to separate the
cob meal from the keruul meal and
leave the former
would not think OF putting my own
Individual experience in opposition to
the learned men. wore it not support.
ed by the testimony OF hundreds Of
Intelligent aud observing farmsrs IN
this country. who years ago made n
fair trial OF cob meal. and abandoned
It's use The experience Of the many
Is more likely to be right than the
experience Of the few.
II farmer has n hundred dollars
he does not know what to do with.
and does not want to give it 10 the
foreign missionary society. he might
, put II into n cob mill IL would ii.
ways stay there and he would knew
st where It was.
The Time to Transplant Tree..
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