Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-14
HOMEMADE CALF FOODS.

better results are to be obtained by
the use OF purchased calf meals than
by any preparations of this kind
which they can produce at home. On
the other hand, we know of not few
successful feedsrs who argue that it
is waste of money to buy calf meals
at the big prices sometimes charged
for these foods, and who say that
equally good results at a much lower
cost can be obtained by judicious
blends of various substances which
can be purchased at comparatively low
much depends on the skill and judg-
ment which the feeder brings to bear
upon the blending of his homemade
mixture, and not a little also on the
prices at which he Is able to obtain
the various ingredients employed by
him. In the latter respect, and also
in the facilities for properly blending
the various substances employed, a
large manufacturer has a great ad-
vantage over the man who purchases
only small quantities of each article
at time, and consequently, has to
pay higher proportionate price for
them. For those who believe In home
made calf foods, the following is
recommended as q good mixture-the
quantities specified being sufficient to
make / cwt.--: Sc lbs. of lentil flour,
% ms. of linseed, Ia lbs. of bean flour,
Z lbs. pea -four, 3 lbs. of fenugreek
-four, fts. Of sugar and III lbs. of
salt, ozs. flour of sulphur and ozs.
of ground charcoal. This meal is best
prepared by scalding it well with
boiling water and then, adding it to
the milk just before the latter is fed
to the calves. The quantity to be
given will depend upon the size and
age of the calf The best plan is to
begin (when the calf is from ten days
to a fortnight old with about u ID.
of a mixture, and then gradually in
crease the allowance as the age of the
animal advances.-Farmers' Gazette,
Ireland.
Ensilase VS.. Cured Corn Fodder.
We use to think when we grew corn
to cure for fodder to use In the winter,
that the best time to cut it was, when
1t was well tassled out. We knew
little about the analysis, but found
that fodder cut then without ears on
1t was better than the fodder from
which we had gathered the ears. We
thought 1t should be so. even as we
had better hay If we cut the grass
when in blossom than we did If we
allowed 1t to stand until the seed had
formed and began to harden. We are
OF the same opinion now as we were
then, but IL does not follow that it is
better to cut so early If 1t Is to be put
In the silo. The water that we dried
out of II in curing, Is too much TO put
in the silo, where it does not dry out
Chemists tell us that when in the
tasseling stage is has 81 per cent.
water, In the silking stage IS per
cent, milk stage IS per cent, glazinp
stage n per cent, and when ripe 70
per cent, and those who have tested
it, claim that it makes the best en-
silage il cut when glazed, but not
quite ripe. II cut earlier it makes
too sour an ensilage. This explains to
us another thing which we proved by
experience, but could not account for
When we were feeding green fodder
20 Hob
had much more milk from it, If we
cut II SO that ii could lie and wilt from
twentyfour to thirty-six hours before
we fed 1t out. We had dried out some
OF that superfluous water and increas-
ed the amount of starch and sugar, and
possibly OF fat There was less dan.
ger of souring or fermenting in the
stomach and possibly they ate more;
still more probable that they digested
1t better. When the Wisconsin Ex-
pertinent Station tested ensilage and
cured corn fodder together. they
claimed to have obtained 243 pounds
more of milk or twelve pounds more
of butter from an acre of corn put Ia
the silo than from an acre cured and
fed dry. 1t would not pay to build
very expensive silo to get the amount
saved upon one or two acres.
The New Jersey Station found In
1897 that with milk at one cent a
pound they had $40 an acre more from
the ensilage than from the cured fod.
der. but the cost of harvesting, storing
and preparing for food was greater
for the amount OF dry matter in the
ensilage than in the fodder, which
partly balances the gain in milk.
They also found that of the solid or
dry matter in the ensilage, thirty-one
pounds was not digested. aud in the
corn fodder thirty-eight pounds. All
these facts are in favor of the en-
sflag0 hOfh lots hes,u .,,t ~ a.