The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

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Fair. It.has Been found BIZ sxpszipaens
sAas the fass rlae sof one pouns u pro-:
ten Is0stalorles, that tho fael valae
OF 'qeae plessl1 y, cart, IA yirat.s Is 1850
cal oFiRsS end t.ia- the fnsl valueso Of
on pcdn fapds l:30 Galleries; 50 that
thssfnel xAlae Se pound OF fat is tive
and 4 dassfer titsssS 81 much as the fuel
value OF pound III pFoseis or carbohy.;
drates, which s., a copss che reason
why yoq nlnl fs a gestible fat By
214 pcf0eaadding ito ga esrbohydratea
in caleulasIng the nuatritiYe ratio. THE
full Falps 81 VOLTS standard fasion 5k.
q dairy COW is 1880 calofies II YOU
viii bear il mind these Explanations Il
will cnabie you to understand the terms
in almost any article you may come
across in your reading about scientific
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In concluding my letters to-. You
on feeding there are two other
points on which / will touch briehyI
First, in regardsto the cooking or steam
ing OF food, number of experiments
have been made both at. home aud
abroad on this imp ortant subject, and
the testimony is that the eookihg Of feed
for the great majority Of food products
is useleks, and in some cases worse thar
useless. The experiments have been
made on hay, potatoes, corn4 meal, BAR
ley andryes In most of these trials, not
lnonly has there been no gain from COOK
ing, but, even positive loss; that u
say, the Quantity of food required &c
produce one pound of gain ia weight
was larger whom the food was, cooked
than when it was fed raw, and N some
cases the unfavorable effeoblof cooking
was very marked The following ex,
ception to this rule, however, is note
worthy: The Mississippi Station expert,
mented for three years in feeding steam
ed cotton seed to COWS; and their conclu4
sion was very favorable to the practice
They report that the milk and butter
from COWS fed on steamed cotton seed
cost less than that from COWS fed on raw
seed and only little more than half as
much as that from cows fed on cotton
seed meal, also that the ''butter from
steamed cotton seed is superior in quail
ty to that from either raw seed or cotton
seed meal" The Texas Station also re-
ports that it pays to boil cotton seed
for steers. Although the testimony is
against cooking feed for animals as a
rule, it is in favor of soaking the feed in
water before feeding; it was found that
pigs would eat more Of soaked corn
meal and shorts than of the dry and
| consequently gained more in weight on
. it.
The second and last point to which
l want to call your attention is to feed.
ing for fat and lean. 1t has been a
somewhat mooted question as to whether
the proportion of fat and lean in the
body of an animal could be influenced
by the nutritive ratio of the ration fed
to it. The results of the experiments
made tend to demonstrate the truth of
the theory that a "narrow" ration would
produce more lean meat, and that
''wide" ration would produce carcass
carrying more fat than lean. Professor
Sanborn of Missouri, made number of
experiments in the feedingof hogs, and
his results showed that pork produced
by feeding skim milk, shorts, wheat
bran, Iniddlings and dried blood, and
such food having large proportion of
protein and therefore having mar
row" nutritive ratio, was much leaner.
had much less fat than pork fed on corn
meal, which had ''wide' ration. Elk.
periments in feeding steers at the Kan
sas Station also demonstrate that the
ration with large proportion of protein
i'll it produces a beef with more lean and
less fat. In this connection it would ap-
pear that the ration gave you above of
hulls and meal would be we'll adapted to
the production of lean meat in the beef.
If you desired to feed more especially
for lean, use ration of 20 pounds of
hulls and eight pounds of cotton seed
meal per 1000 pounds of live weight Der
day, or mix together in that proportion
and allow the steers to eat all they will.
That would give You ration having the
narrow nutritive ratio of las whereas
VOLTS standard calls for ration with
ratio of 10 This last would produce
a much fatter sort of beef than the first:
and as the tendency among the people,
more especially in the towns and cities,
is to prefer beef and pork with more
lean and less fat than formerly, it is i'm
portant for those who would cater to
this trade to consider carefully this
method of feeding. Yours truly,
JNo. NJ. MCCANDLEss.
State Chemist.