The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
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A correspondent asks Breeders Ga
zette, (which is more profitable feed
for dairy COWS. bran or shipstuff (mid-
dlings), bran usually selling at 10 cents
per hundred pounds less than the mid
dlings?'
w. A. Henry makes the following re-
ply: 'Gcod wheat middlings contain
more nutriment than good wheat bran
and will generally be found more useful
than the same weight of the bran. In
matters of this kind a good deal de-
ponds upon the other constituents of
the ration. Where one is feeding corn
meal as a part of the concentrates it
is generally better to use bran for the
other part, because the corn furnishes
the carbohydrates and is heavy in
character and needs tightening by the
bran, which, being loose and flaky in
character, effects that result very nice
~. Where one does not care to get
the tightening effect due to bran, then
middlings would be the more ecOnom-
ical feed of the two. Middlings are a
better feed for young pigs than wheat
bran because the bran is too chaffy in
character for the digestive tract of the
young pig. We have found at our sta
ton farm that some of our horses
could not utilize middlings to any ex-
tent with advantage. Their use was
almost sure to induce collie with GER
tain individual horses. Such trouble
never followed the use Of bran as
horse feed"
Cottorseed and Its Feeding.
Cottonseed and it's products are valu-
able milk and butter producers. They
do not injure the milk for drinking
purposes, but when fed in too large
quantity they do affect the quality of
the butter produced, giving it Il higher
melting point and making it firm, which
is an advantage in Il warm climate,
but at the same time the texture is in
jured, the butter being sticky and the
flavor poor When. however. seed and
meal are properly combined with grain
and hay feed, SO that the cottonseed
products do not form over one-fourth
of the grain ration. this injurious effect
on the quality Of the butter is not ap-
parent.
Two or three pounds Of cottonseed or
meal may be fed per cow per day with
out materially affecting the butter
Cottonseed meal is rich in flesh form
ers and milk producers. and its value
as 4 dairy food is unquestioned aud un-
doubted. For mixing with cottonseed
bulls. corn fodder. ensilage and the
grass hays. feeds of the opposite kind
from cottonseed meal. it has no su-
perior Numerous experiments have
shown cottonseed meal in the same ra-
tons to produce. pound for pound.
more milk and butter than cornmeal.
wheat bran or the other grains and
concentrated feeds in common USE
Farm and Home.
Silage From Shredded CornstaIISs.
A subscriber asks Hoard's Dairyman
why it is not practicable plan to put
shredded cornstalk in a silo. wetting
it properly as it goes in.
The most serious objection to this
plan would be the difficulty in getting
such material to pack sufficiently close
in the silo to displace the air. We
think the material should be cut into
short lengths as we'll as shredded. This
being done, there is no reason why this
would not be an economical and safe
way to store and secure corn stover.
Man was made to mourn, but proi,a-
h1y ii was never intended that he