Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-04-17
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E. 8. GARDEN.
FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS.

Another of the Macmillan's rural
science series is The Feeding ol
Animals" by Whitman Howard Jor-
dan. director of the New YORK agf1-
cultural experiment station. 1t Is OF
much less practical value to farmers
than was the last volume, Farm
Poultry" recently noticed in this
column, though the present WORK
touches a subject of the more general
interest. The average busy farmer
will hardly care to follow the author
through his 200 pages of theory on
the ''PrinCiples OF Feeding" which
constitute the first half of the book,
however beneficial it might be to the
farmer and his animals, should he do
SO. Mr.. Jordon says that much that
is introduced bears no immediate re-
lations to the practical operations OF
feeding. He holds that the
study Of the practical l,.I-
TONS OF science should not uniy
promote material well-being but
should also lend itself to intellectual
stimulus and culture. The author
discusses in successive chapters he
chemical elements OF nutrition. com
pounds OF animal nutrition. the
digestion OF food, the functions Ui the
nutrients. and the laws Of nutrition.
The second part OF the book deals
with the practice of feeding. and
practice is rather Surer of an i'm
| mediate income on a farm, than 8
theory. Mention is made Of the in
creaSing number OF cattle foods be-
coming available, for not only have
several fodder plants been added 70
! those formerly grown. but great
variety OF waste products, from the
manufacture Of oils, starch and
human foods, are now sold as feeding
hInffS. The farmer, i'll deciding what
| forage and grain crops he should
grow, is instructed to consider: The
| 8Captabihty OF the various crODS to
soil and climate; the adaptability to
the kind OF business to be followed
whether dairying, stock growing or
something else; the capacity of
| various crops for the production of
dlgestible food the protein supply,
and the maintenance of fertility.
| These carefully observed. the prOduc-
ton of cattle foods will meet with the
best results. "Once in a while"
says Mr.. Jordan, some one talks
wildly about leaving food valuation
i 10 the old cow 1t is sometimes
1 considered a telling argument against
| the chemists wisdom to declare that
| ne and the old COW do not agree
| Certainly tho
'he chemist what she likes to eat
ana II IS little use to offer her foods
| she does not relish. Even a chemist
| knows that, If, however. a dozen
commercial feeding stuffs wer.
| spread around on barn floor #
| would be much safer to trust An agri
| cultural chemist. especially one ex
| perlenced in stock feeding. to select
ration than any cow ever grown
HoIsteln, Ayrshire, Jersey. long
horned, dishorned, or what not, the
co" would probably get at the corn
meal and stay with it until well ON
tfi way 20 fatal case of in
| accessibility. Her judgment is inst
ABOUT as good as that of a child with
d mighty cultivated sweet tooth >"
stress is laid on the imp0rtan,n of
a wide knowledge of facts for tho
successful feeding of miIcb COWS
MILK, like ether animal product. is
derived from the food. It's secretion
STANDS almost Unrivaled as an av-
! ample OF the rapid, extensive and CON
! Ilnuous transformation of the fooo
INTO animal compounds. In no otbor
| instance, unless in the case Of an
| ahImalS earliest growth. is On
| large proportion of the digoo+
Ell nutrients utilized in butIdino
he" material, or is 1onro
as intimate relation between tho
| extent and kind of the FEEDING ond
the extent and character of tba nrad
uct resulting. An interesting die
| cESslon is given of the question ot
ehect Of food upon the 1avoro IF -1,iI,-
and its products No concIueior, -
reached, however. Milk satfsfacto,,,
u taste and smell may be so becan.a
rad favors are absent mr. hooo,,ao
some definite constituent is nrasnn+
Inc superiority of June butter IF
Such exists, may be due to volatile
doors derived from young grasses. r.
Is believed that milk may absorb
DOORS from the stable. as we'll as gat
them from the animals food