River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-10
The Grinding Season
Or how and where TO grind feed.

AS the frosts increase in sever
ity the natural grasses upon
which our Dairy stock---Hogs,
Horses, and fat cattle have sub
sisted for the summer months
lose that sustaining quality so
necessary to profitable hus.
bandry.
Substitutes are to be found in
Hay, Grain, Bran and Shorts.
There is a larger amount OF
damp and damaged grain in this
vicinity than usual owing to the
unusual amount of rainfall dur
ing the harvest and threshing
season. Barley has been the
greatest sufferer from this
cause. Another serious detrac-
ton from the value of Barley of
this vicinity is to be found in the
presence Of an unusual amount
Of wild oats. It is said by far
mers that every wild oat in the
ground grew this season.
These two serious defects make
Barley the cheapest feed we have
today.
Damp Barley is being sold in
Prescott as low as 80 cts. per 80
pounds, which when figured into
tons, the thirty cent Barley is
bringing $1,000 per ton, while
Bran is bringing $1,000 per ton
and Shorts are bringing $500
per ton. One objection to feed
ing Barley and Oats to hogs in
recent years has been found in
the Oat and Barley hulls which
are totally indigestible in a hogs
stomach and which when crushed
on a Roller Mill is almost intact,
with the result that the hogs
will not swallow the hulls, but
extract the meat SO far as posi-
BILE and leave the hulls about the
trough. So that the farmer in
variably asks the Miller to GRIND
IT FINE. tits a physical impos-
sibility for the, Miller to annihilate
the oat hulls-when passing same
through the ordinary Roller
Feed Mills. :
A very much better process
has at last been devised in the
form of an attrition Feed Mill.
which consists of pair of circu-
lar discs revolved in opposite
directions at a tremendous rate
of speed. After a complete inves-
tigation of the various attrition
Mills on the market [ have
selected the Unique which in my
Judgment is the only practical
machine on the market. Ithas "a
inch disks and. has a capacity of
from 2 tons per hour on coarse
grains to $500 pounds per hour
on the more solid grains. [ will
retain my present feed grinding
outfit intact, which with the new
Mill will give me a grinding
capacity of from 4 to 6 tons per
hour.
Another point: that of cob
grinding. We all put in cob
mills a few years ago, and after
one or two winters we dlscon-
tinued their use. One reason was
the compensation did not pay
for the enormous expenditure of
power. Another reason was
that the mills of that date were
crude affairs and had not reached
the present state of development.
No corn shelter that was ever
made will save all the corn under
all the conditions which attend
the everyday demands of the
custom miller. My new, iron
clad, cob-and all machine gives
you all the corn and cob all the
time.
The corn is frstpassed through
the crusher, then the attrition
mill. The work is done IN such
a thorough manner that the cob
cannot be detected in the pro
duct. There are II pounds of
cob in every bushel Of corn.
This cob has some feeding value,
especially for dairy stock. | am
offering this community propo-
sition which it has never before
been possible to offer them in the
matter of superior feed grinding.
The dairy business in this vicin-
ity has never been in such favor.
Why not increase your profits by
having your feed well ground,
which can be done best at Cas- !
cade Mills after Nov. 1, 1908.