The Republican journal., 1895-11-07

OF the food taken into the animal one
fifth is assimilated and fOur-fifths voided.
Of the part used the non-nitrogenous are
used to preserve the animal heat. A tenn
perature Of 1922 must be maintained to keep
COW healthy. If there are not enough
carbohydrates in the food to preserve this
temperature the lack is supplied from the
protein, which should 60 to the production
,, of milk. As nitrOgenOus substances are
much more expensive than non -nitrORen0us
tine latter should be used in sufficient guam
tity to do the work intended. A balanced
ration is not only necessary to keep up to
their highest standard all the functions of
the animal, but it is the cheapest. The single
food which comes nearest to a balanced ra-
ton, as shown both by theory and practice,
is pasture grass, which has nutritive ratio
OF l to 4. while COW requires to 5.4.
The value Of other foods is easily seen from
the tables. Prof Gowell drew many com
parisons between the various foods, by use of
the tables, az the best feed for oxen, grow
ing calves, young pigs, etc. The cost per
pound. of feeding young animal increases
with age. Wheat bran IS always safe food
and worth all it costs. 1t is cooling and car
ries large amount of bone forming material.
When calves chewed shingles people said
they needed bone-formers and led bone
meal The weak digestive apparatus of
young calf cannot take care of bone meal,
but wheat bran just meets the case. Wheat
bran is a food for calf before birth, and re-
mains good through life if it lives to be %
years old. Prof. Gowell places high value
on June grass and Kentucky blue grass.
which are closely allied, and thinks more
should be raised. Tie reason why oat straw
shows no better results in practical use is be-
cause Of the effort required to digest the
hard, woody fibre. Corn does not contain
as much woody fibre as oat straw. An ami
NAL will get as much food from dry corn
fodder as from silage, but uses it in the work
Of digestion. The feeding Of slage should
begin gradually, as any new food given
suddenly affects the taste of milk. As to
the best kind Of corn for silage, tests have
shown the yellow corn to produce better re-
suits in Maine than the larger Southern
corn. The question for the farmer is, s'what
food will you use?'' Every farmer should
study the wants Of his animals and govern
himself accordingly.
WHY GO WEST?
The evening session was largely attended,
especially by. the young people, for whom
the subject OF the evening was chosen The
meeting opened with singing by Equity
Grange choir, "Stay on the Farm Secre-
tary McKeen was the speaker and his ad-
dress was a logical and forcible showing Of
the extravagant stories told of the riches of
the west while he presented in plain terms
the resources and advantages of Maine, both
for the farmers and mechanic. He showed
how the star OF empire made its way west
ward from the days of Columbus and the
IatnerS uoWn 10 WlJAln a lew years. How
the craze for gold sent thousands to Califor-
MIA in 40, and how few years later the
glowing stories Of wealth easily obtained
had sent our best blood from the farms of
New England to the prairies and mines Of
Of the great west Only the bright side of
the story of the successes of the few who
have been successful in the west has been
told, while the thousands of failures, of
blasted lives and shattered hopes, were never
heard from. Now a reaction is setting in,
and men are beginning to see that com
Portable living, with ''home" and all that
the word implies, are more surely to be
found in New England than in any other
part Of the country. The resources OF Maine,
of Aroostook's virgin lands, of the proven
capabilities Of the older counties, Of our own
vast resources in wood ice, granite, and
other products, We're shown, and reference
made to the possibilities now being opened
up by the Aroostook, Washington County
and other railroads. MI McKeen believes
that one Of the greatest works in which the
Board OF Agriculture or the people and press
Ot our State can engage is showing to the
rising generation the resources which are at
our very doors, waiting only to be developed.
The meeting closed with music by the
chcir, and brief remaks from Mr.. Moody,
thanking the choir for the music, the ladies'
OF Equity Grange for the excellent dinner
provided, and the people for their close at
tention, good order and interest