The Columbus journal., 1895-06-26

lueTc arc q great III 1uy 1dTIQVTS III
the west who keep poultry and who
feed habitually on corn. This is partly
because it is almost always on hand,
partly because they have great conf
dence in that very valuable cereal as a
feed stun. and partly because it is
cheap. From some one or all of these
reasons, corn is fed to a much greater
extent to poultry in the west than ii
should be. Two of these reasons do
not exist this season. Corn is rot
plentiful. and. as compared with other
feed stuffs. it is not cheap. Tw0-thirds
of the temptation to feed 1; nave.
therefore. temporarily disappeared.
II those of our readers who arc i'm the
habit of feeding corn will just put by
their prejudices in its favor. .or with
respect to this particular kind IL feed
ing. 1t is a prejudice, and try some
more nitrogenous feed stuff. some less
heating feed and less fattening. We
undertake to say that they will not
again return to corn as ragu,;.- feed
for poultry, even when it becomes as
plentiful and as cheap as is its normal
condition. The most successful Doul-
trymen for egg production 40 lot us.
much corn. The egg consists of about
sixty-fOur parts of water. fifteen parts
dry albumen, eleven parts oil ard *alts
and ten parts shell and mineral ma.ter.
Manifestly a feed consisting of eight
and onc-third parts albumen. sixty
five parts carbohydrates and four and
three-fourths part fat IS not a suitable
food with which to manufacture
such product as the egg. More uitrog-
eEous. that is to say, more albumi-
nous. feeding is requisite. with less and
very considerable less carbohydrates
or starch food, except in very cold
weather, when the carbon is needed to
keep up the animal heat and the vital
processes. A very carbonaccous food,
too, like corn, interferes with the sat
isfactory development of both frame
and feathers. The bones of poultry
habitually fed On it lose both density
and strength. and hence. those that
are fed much corn. even though they
may not suffer specifically in health,
become sluggish, and deposit large
masse of fat on the internal orgIn;.
According to Prof. Roberts of Cornell
university, ''the flesh Of a nitrogeno;is
fed fowl contains more. albuminoils
and less fat than those fed on a car
bonaceous ration: is dsrker color, ,juicier
and tenderer." From every standpoint,
therefore. except only the night feed
in extremely cold weather. and the
final finish for the table, corn should
be abandoned as leading feed, and
more nitrogenous grains substituted
Iowa Homestead.
90. Canadian and American Cattle.
Something like beef famine has lately
prevailed in America. and prices have
gone up to S cents lb. The cause Of it
all is stated to be the scarcity of cattle.
and also a ring which has been formed
by the Chicago packers. As a result
of the high prices now. prevailing. an
agitation has been set on foot in the
United States for the removal of the
duty of 20 per cent on Canadian cattle.
The Dominion government is. also
strongly urged from Washington to
consent to the mutual abandonment of
the quarantine OF ninety days imposed
on cattle at the frontier. The Canadian
government, has however. up to the
present, declined to accede to the lat
ter proposal, as it still hopes $50 an
Ottawa cablegram, of date the 18th
inst, says) the British embargo will
be removed. and It fears, il an ar
rangement; such as that proposed be
made with the United States, fresh DIFF
ticulfies may be raised ab0ct the ad-
mission of Canadian cattle into Great
Britain.-North British Agriculturist.