The Jennings daily record., 1902-02-17
Utmz,nr eur Best Feeds.

The dairymen of the West should
utilize every pound of by-products
made by our mills and factories. For
more than ten years men like Prof.
Henry of Wisconsin have been asking
the farmers here why they permitted
this class of feeds to be shipped on
east. when they themselves had enough
animals to consume all of it, II those
animals were rightly fed. Some of our
by-products rich in protein are bought
by Europeans and fed to high-priced
cattle on high-priced land. The Danes.
under such conditions. buy the feeds
we let go past our doors. They pay
heavy charges for shipment and re-
shipment, and then feed those feeds
to their dairy COWS. The butter they
make by the help Of those feeds they
sell in the London market at from ~
to 25 cents per pound, a price no better
than good creamery butter brings In
Chicago almost the year round. The
problem presents itself to us In this
way:
If the Danes can pay heavy ad-
vance on what we would have to pay
and still make money out of the use
of these feeds. why cannot our dairy
men make more money than do the
Danes by keeping these feeds at nome
and feeding them out on our farms?
Our most successful dairymen long
ago answered the question in the at
firmative and are feeding these valu-
able feeds to as large an extent as
the number of their cows will permit.
What is true of the European buyer
of concentrated feeding stuffs Is true
in a lesser degree of the farmers of
New England. They have awakened
to the profit of utilizing these nitro
genous feeds. A short time ago the
writer was talking with an agent OF
one of our glucose factories. He had
just returned from New England,
where he had been to look after the
sale and delivery of some of the by
products of their factory. He went to
be gone ten days, but remained ten
weeks instead, so much were the farm
ers of New England interested in the
concentrates being disposed of. The
wonder to the writer was and Is that
his whole time was not taken up SELL
ing gluten feeds in Illinois and adjoin-
ing states, rather than in New Eng
land.
The dairyman in the corn belt can
get the by-products of corn with little
expense in the way of freightS. These
by-prOductS are far richer in the nj
trogenous elements than is the corn in
it's original state, generally three times
as valuable or more. For the uses OF
commerce only the starch has been
taken out, and starch is in such abun-
dance in our common feeds that we
cannot afford to pay very high price
for it, In fact, we need not worry
about the carbohydrates (starch,
sugar, glucose) at ALL we need only
concern ourselves about getting the
protein, and that is the very thing
not taken out of the by-prOducts OF
corn.
This is the element that costs in the
foods used on the farm. 1t is quite a
common thing for unscientific feeders
to try to dodge this expense by using
cheaper feeds less rich in protein. But
the method of escape is more costly
than would be the purchasing and use
of the feeds, for the reason that the
digestive system of our animals Will
take certain proportion of protein
to a certain proportion of carbo-hy-
! drates, and the surplus of the carbo-
hydrates is thrown away. These pro-
portions are quite constant, though
slightly varying. The man, therefore
that feeds an oversupply of carbo-hy-
drates is simply feeding the manure
pile with undigested food. If he wants
more carbohydrates used he must feed
more protein to help use them.
We know that many readers of the
Farmers Review are well posted Oh
this question, and that they are using
their brains and their pencils to advan-
tage. But we also take it for granted
that of the thousands of recent sub.
scribers to this paper there are some
that have not yet carefully weighed
| the matter. Hence these remarks.
The Coming Poultry Show.