Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-03
THE COW As A SOURCE or room.

THE COW AS A SOURCE or FOOD,
There has been much discussion over
the matter OF food supply ms furnished
the human race through the consump-
ton OF animal mattcr-meat-andl ta
cost. and some curious ilgurea are thus
obtained. II has been asserted That the
food required TO make u pound of beer
In IA good steer. II fed to Il good dairy
cow would result In pound OF butter,
and with this difference, the first would
be worth cents live weight, and the
other one year with another, 70 cents
This IL disputed; but the dispute ohly
raises another and stronger PROOF OF
It's correctness, FOR with each pound OF
butter produced. there are two pounds
OF solids created with II quite "a Nalu-
able FOR food and all OF these three
pounds are entirely digcstlble. and 70
the highest degree nutritious, Whllc the
pound OF beehive wclght-ilrst dress
es Oh per cent, as ut and suited Tor
food. and when We come to cook thus
Ct per cent. thorc 10 q further loss OF
is per cent. and Is not inclusive OF
twelve pounds Of bone to each 100
pounds of beef To put this In another
form, dry digestiblc matter; the steer
that weighs 1000 pounds. VIII Ohly iui-
nish $40 pounds of edible dry fooh mat
ter. and the COW that gives COCO ponndu
of Is ppr cent milk, supplies IN one
dlgestlble, more than two-thirds OF the
weight Of the steer, age unknown.
Prof. Jordan of Maine, who ~ making
n most thorough study OF this matter
of food supply and digestion. has found
in the case OF ono OF the cows at the
Main station. that In the year lSsi' TINS
COW produced In the year ms much hu-
man food as IN contained In the ear
cagses of four l000-pound steers, Then
figured on the double basis of food re-
CURED to be fed to produce In the form
OF edible meat-dry solids---' pound OF
dlgestible dry matter, II required 5.bl
pounds Of dgestlblu grains and Erasses
TO produce pound Of milk solids, tho
most perfect food known, 1850 pounds
of digestlblp solids 10 produce q pound
of edible swine solids. aud thirty
ponds Of digestble food to produce
pound of edible solids In the case OF the
steqr. Taken AZ the meat hangs on
tn hooks in the market, what VIII pro-
duce six and one-halt pounds OF butter
will give eight and one-third pounds
of beef: but the butter contains only
about 10 per cent. Of water, and the
beef steak 90 per cent. Taking all the
figures and estimates, the professor
found that 100 pounds of digestlble cat
tie food would in butter give almost
three times as much human food us II
fed to steers. Here IL an Offset Cows
go dry part OF the year. and there Is an
element OF labor and skill In taking
care of this cow and making the milk
into food, II not consumed as milk, that
does not belong TO steer feeding, but II
takes good management TO keep steer
gaining two pounds day for year.
OF course the steer when killed IN all
utilized, not as food wholly, but for a
variety OF things, and a certain amount
Is purchased back to fertilize the land.
Figured from strictly the butter stand
point, and beef as II hangs In the mar
ket II may not be true that the ration
that makes pound OF beef, will also
make n pound OF butter. but figured
from the standpoint of human food,
then the COW has n clear Held we think.
because the solids Of 5000 pounds of
milk far outweigh the digestible solids
OF the steers growth for the same pc
riod Of production. Was the original
statement very far out Of the way2