The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-09-12
SHREDDED CORN ITS VALUE
From the Southern Cul,ivator.

From the Southern Cul'ivator
The Georgia Experiment Station
places the value OF cOrnstaIks IN
Georgia at about one and Il half mil
lion q 800, UO0) dollars per year. AT
least - per cent. of this is wasted by
being left in the field to rot, without
materially bcncliting the soil as fer
tilizer, yet very much in the way while
cultivating the crop the following year.
While this waste is going on the poor
mans stock is left almost to perish up
on dead grass during The winter months
and the wealthy mans cattle feed upon
cotton seed hulls and meal, sometimes
to eat timothy hay, raised, cured, balcd
and shipped from some other state,
the same costing from 30 to $50 per
ton.
Last September | bought an inter
est in Mccormick Shredder, cut,
shocked and shredded eighteen acres
of corn, having sufficient to winter
sixteen cows and two mules, using no
other forage, besides having to feed
cows through an unusually long winter.
| | wIntcrea four other cows (nOt my
own) upCn cotton seed hulls and meal
at II cost of from 81 to 81 80 per month
Comparing cost ON the above; II
half dozen hands can cut and shock
eighteen acres of corn in IL day. Six
hands could with difficulty pull fodder
from about one-third as much glOund
and fodder curing is generally accom-
panied with great deal of risk. The
corn, if well shocked, will not injurc If
raincd upon for two weeks, ror it should
be shoc,icd rs fast as cut.
From The Cultivator | see that hoes
are used to cut the corn. My plan is
to break the hook from an old scythc
blade, batter down the hook end and
bind with padding for handle. This
will be found to have the right length
ana weight and serves the purpose
much better than hoe, rs The
corn may in this matter be laid IN
straight piles, and gathered easily fol
shocking, a careful hand should
start the shock by placing two arm
fuls Of the cut corn together with tht
butts placed firmly on the ground anC
the tops placed well together. The
shock thus started resemble the lcttc
a. Afterward The other hands may
gather up the cora lying near and place
equally on all SluCS.
In bottom or very big corn, a laddc
of three or four risers may be used il
order to reach the top to tic securely
In four to six weeks shocks with tw,
TO three hundred stalks in them will b.
ready for the shredder. In case tn
shrcddin" cannot be done at the cx
plration of the curing period three o
four shocks ut Il small cost may be com
, bincd, and then the shrcdling may h
, postponed indefinitely. This corn wi
not miurc If the tops are well prcssc
together and the shock shaped to shc
| the rain. eKs"ssc'
: BE sure the corn is well cured bcfor
| shrcdding, and use a good shredder. {
d, use the Mccormick and find that il doe
more than is claimed for it, With
=, Mccormick Machine, run by siS
: horse power engine, ! shredded frOl
: two to three tons per hour at the sma
cost of - cents per ton, includin
Il hauling.
$ Try shredded corn one year and yo
e will continue shrcddmg. doubtc
G the eNpcdicncy (othcrs willy at first Dl
n was convinced that shrcdding is MOI
) profitable. The same amount of cor
q is heavier than corn harvested in tn
= usual way from which the fodder ht
:. been pulled. Cattle Will fare bctt,
g upon ii and fattcn faster than whc
II fed upon meal and hulls.
o +. n. WIEDIG.
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