The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-15

cheaper" Mr.. Dudley, an experienced
feeder of Kansas, says: Bran is % per
cent cheaper than corn meal" The ma
nure from bran-fed stock is worth about
double that from corn feeding, says Mr..
Waldo F. Brown. Bran as a food is a well
balanced ration, having about one pound
of albuminoids to four and a half of carbo-
hydrates. Such a ration is digested by the
animal without waste. As a bone and
muscle forming ration for young stock
of all kinds we have fed it with the great
est success. As a feeding ration for steers
experiments conducted by the Pillsbury
mills conclusively show its value. The
details of these experiments are so in
structive that we here give them:
In 1886 the proprietors of the PiIIsbury
mills determined to make some feeding
tests with their light roller process bran,
and in May fifteen scrub steers were put
in small feed lot and fed on prairie hay
and bran. The steers were a handbook
ing lot at first, but were healthy, and soon
began to improve. The cattle were fed
few days before being weighed, so that
their gain for the first month could not be
Influenced by their filing up after being
shipped to Minneapolis. They were then
led what hay and bran they would eat
The average gain in weight for the month
was 10 pounds, the best steer making a
gain of IT. pounds and thelightest one 63
pounds. The steers ate an average of 12Is
PC'AAiN9 VI ~ an tttttl per Jay ana the aN-
erage amount of hay eaten was 16 2-3
pounds per day. The bran was weighed
daily, but it was found inconVenient to
weigh the hay daily, and so the gross
amount fed for each month was weighed.
The large gain the first month was due
to the filing up of the cattle for in the
three following months the gain was from
80 to so pounds month. They ate less
hay and more bran after the first month,
put IN no month was the average bran
ration quite IA pounds per day but after
the first month it was not less than Is
pounds per day. A herd of bran-fed cattle
were sent to Chicago in January with a
request that the Swift Company should
report on them, and their report was:
Prime in every particular"
The value of bran for the dairy COW is
thus spoken of by Prof. Henry, probably
the best authority in this country: Bran
is one of the most valuable feeds in the
dairy. From it's loose, husky nature and
cooling effect on the system, it can be
given in almost any quantity with little
danger of overlooking. 1t is the safest
food in the dairy barn, and should al
ways be in store to mix with corn meal
or the ground grains, cotton-seed meal or
oil meal. We know that wheat rapidly
depletes the soil of it's fertility, and the
chemist has found that the larger part
of the fertility that goes into the wheat
grain is stored near the outside of the
grain in what becomes the bran on grind
ing"
With such testimony in favor of bran,
both for dairy and feeding purposes, we
urge all stock keepers to lay in a supply
for winter use while the price is at the
| lowest, which is usually during the late
summer and early fall months. 1t will
pay to sell wheat at 30 cents bushel and
buy bran with the money if the bran can
be got at less than SIS per ton; so with
corn at 40 cents a bushel and bran at $14
per ton.