The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1901-11-15
WONDERFUL MACHINE.
Farms, Fodder and Food and
How to Save Them.

The object of this article is toI
call attention to wasieful methods
OF feeding stock on farms, the
amount OF valuable food material
utterly lost, and remedy. One
need but TO pass along any public
road In the county to got a fair
idea OF what is being wasted. The
ground near almost every stable
and barn is thlckly strewn with
cornstalks from which hungry and |
gaunt cattle have with difficulty
stripped the blades-only IL per
cent, by the way, Of the digestlble
matter-and trampled the remain
der in the filth and mire. II the
owner Of the place is reasonably |
thrifty he has perhaps several tons
OF timothy hay in his barn, not
knowing that the fodder from one
acre yields as much digeste mat
ter MS two tons of timothy hay.
II II has been a good crop CORN
year he has gathered and careful |
ly stored his corn, leaving whole
acres thick with stalks, not know.
Ing that there is more digestible
matter in corn fodder than in the
corn ears. This same farmer will
probably give "shucking" party
some day or night. The big ears
are thrown into crib, but the
shucks (husks) are thrown out with
the rejected stalk. Mr.. Farmer
having no idea that nearly 81 per
cent. OF 1t is digestible matter ;and
digestlble matter is food. Our far
mer friend will probably be amaz-
ed when he learns that there is
enough digestible matter produced
by the corn fodder, the whole stalk
minus the ear, grown in the Sonth-
ern States to winter all the live
stock existing in those States, il ii
was properly preserved and pre-
pared In palatable form. We
leave 1t to the farmer himself to
say how much OF this valuable food
is entirely wasted.
There is no question as to the
digestibillty OF this rejected mate
rial. Its value as a food is not
theory-it is fact beyond any
Question. Carefully conducted and
repeated experiments have fully
established it. "But," says the
man who throws an armful OF cut
corn on the muddy ground about
his barn and sees 90 per cent. of it
trampled under foot, "the darn
things wont eat IT.. Herr, my
friend, is where you have theory
and not fact. They will eat it
and, II they could talk, would ask
for more, il 1t were properly pre-
pared. You (sometimes) properly
prepare your own food, and the re.
suit is a minimum OF waste and an
increase OF health and strength.
This would also be the result OF
your stock If the food you offer
them was put before them in
proper condition. Experiment and
invention have produced machines
by the use OF which every particle
OF a stalk OF corn Is converted into
palatable, digestible, fat and
strength making food. And it's
cheap. Can you ask or expect a
cornstalk to do more? We saw
one OF the best Of the machines at
work the other day, and we simply
marvelled at the process and the
results. OF course 1t was at the
Eloise Improvement Company's
, farm / miles above Louisa. We
were so amazed at the wonderful
work of the machine that we forgot
to ask its makers name. But II
you are interested in what we have
tried to say just ask Col. Northup,
who bought 1t, or Snyder Broth
ers, who sold 1t, and you will get
!, all the information you want. The
machine was a thing Of knives,
: wheels, springs and wind, run by
: steam. You put into its capacious
mouth an armful OF cut up corn,
c There Is a rumble, a whirr aud a
4 rattle, and over an endless iron
> carries the clean ears Of corn 90
rapidly into waiting wagon, to
p be carried away when full, and up
: into the barn, into the silo, or any
anywhere 1t may be wanted, is
blown mass OF sweet, tender
!, Juicy food. The despised shuck
and the rejected stalk have been
cut and shredded into a mass al
= most silky In its soitness and blown
= through huge funnel into a suit
:, able place, and not particle has
= been wasted. How long will II
take you and your two boys, work
!, Ing from sun to sun, to "shuck'
three hundred bushels of corn, & ,
/, husks, Of course, going to waste
/, or course we don't know, but thi,
concern up at The Farm does II il
one day, and makes good food u
!. the stalk and husks into the bar
gain. As we said moment aeC
10 this huskor and shredder-anC
70 shelter, II necessary-is run b,
% steam. The engine is not bll