The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-22
farmer should try them for feed, mar
ket and straw.
Cooking Hog Feed.

COOKING HOG Feed.
We have received several inquiries
recently with reference to the benefits
derived from cooking feed for hogs,
says the Swine Herd. Many expert
ments have been made both in this
country and England, in this line, to
determine whether or not the value of
the food was enhanced by cooking,
and if so, to what extent A number
of feeders throughout the country have
practiced cooking the feed for their
pigs for several years and believe it
to be profitable. This class of persons
is constantly increasing. When ex-
periments have been made with pure
cornmeal cooked into a solid mush, the
results in feeding have not been salts
factory, as it became so impacted in
the stomach that the natural functions
of the digestive apparatus failed to op-
crate upon it. 1t became wasted. When
pumpkins, potatoes and other vegeta-
bles, or short cut clover hay or other
hay is boiled up with it and mixed
through it the greatest benefits are de-
rived. Raspail, writer upon the
chemistry of foods, says: Starch is
not actually nutritive to man till 1T has
been boiled or cooked. The heat of
the stomach is not sufficient to burst
all the grains of the feculent mass,
which is subjected to the rapid action
of the organ; and recent experiments
prove the advantage that results from
boiling the potatoes and grain which
are given to graminivorous animals for
food, for large proportion, when given
whole, in the raw state, passes through
the intestine perfectly unaffected as
when swallowed. Every housewife is
familiar with the fact that starch will
not dissolve in cold water. 1t fol-
lows, then that those grains con-
tanning the largest proportion of starch
will be most benefited by cooking, and
these (corn, rye oats, barley are most
used as fattening food for pigs. Corn,
especially, is considered the standard
fattening food and that contains about
Ga per cent. of starch; rye, 81 per cent;
barley, AZ per cent. and oats, 40 per
cent. of starch.
When cornmeal is we'll cooked 1T is
something more than doubled in bulk
the bursting of the grains of starch
causes it to swell and occupy twice it's
former space-and some feeders have
considered it as valuable bulk for bulk,
| as before cooking; or in other words,
that its value is doubled by cooking.
Hon. George Geddes of New York,
a farmer of long experience, said: 81
| find if l take ten bushels of meal and
wet it in cold water and feed twenty
five hogs with it, they eat it well; but
if l take the same quantity and cook
it, it doubles the bulk, and will take
| the same number of hogs twice as long
to eat it up, and l think they fatten
twice as fast in the same length of
time. BY cooking you double the bulk
| and value of the meal"
"
What to Feed With Corn to Horses.
r. E. wants to know if it will pay
] bi,,, 20 coll SOrY, S0 Oartc h11ShaI
and buy wheat bran at 81 a hundred
pounds to feed his horses in connection
with corn and corn stover. says the
| Practical Farmer.
! Also, he asks if clover hay and corn
will make good ration for horses at
hard work in the summer time. Horses
| doing light work require food with a
nutritiVe ratio of about III Horses
| doing heavy work need about 1:6 that
| is, they need more protein. Now let
! us look at the nutritive ratio of the diff
| ferent kinds of food you mention and
two others. Corn is 1:9.7 corn stover,
| 1.19.9; wheat bran, 1887; clover hay,
1:5.s; iinseed meal. 1:1.6; oats. 1:6.2
| Now YOU can see that a horse living
| entirely on corn and corn stover would
have to eat altogether too much of the
| carbohydrates to get enough potein
BY referring back to article in jan
! 23rd issue you will see that protein
replaces the muscular tissue used up by
work The horse must have enough for
this purpose or he will run down in
muscle, or lean meat. He might for a
while eat corn enough to furnish the
| protein needed, but such an excess of
| carbohydrates as he would have to
| take along with it would be likely to
make some trouble in time. Indigestion
and collie might result. There would
! be an inclination towards a feVeriSh
| ting food varying too much from a
natural balance, such as is found in
good pasture grass. So, for the health
of the horse and perhaps his life, I
| should not feed all corn. Now let us
look at the dollars and cents of the
matter. A hard worked 1,000-pound
horse needs about 2.3 pounds of di-
gestible protein day. A pound of corn
contains .079 of a pound of this nutri-
! tive. a pound of wheat bran 122 In
round numbers the bran contains so
per cent, more protein than the corn,
pound for pound. So with corn worth
a cent pound, bran, to the extent
YOU could use it to advantage. would
! he worth H. cents a pound (By the
| way. why is bran so high in price of
late years? Simply because of the
greater demand caused by more knew
| ledge about balancing rations) You
would thus gain slightly by selling
corn at so cents bushel and buying
! bran at a cent pound. 1t is we'll. how
ever to start feeding ii in a small
way until the horses get used to it
and YOU will find by trial how it agrees
with them. AS a rule, they viii look
sleeker and work better when they
get about the proper amount to balance
UP the ration. A pound of linseed meal
contains 2S of a round of protein. A
pound or so a day may often be fed
/ 10 advantage to "A horse in place of
part of the bran. Oats, you see. are a
| well balanced food, but not strong
enough in protein to use with corn and
corn stalks to properly balance the
| ration. Good, early cut clover hay is
| also a we'll balanced food. A horse will
do well or clover hay alone. TO the
/ extent that he can readily eat and
digest this bulky food. II is good hay
to feed with corn to team doing
! hard work but / should still put in
some wheat bran. Now. do not feed a
horse musty. damaged, or over-ripe
clover hay. This will be worse than all
| corn and corn stover that IL bright
and nice. Ripe clover Is largely woody
| fiber and horses will be liable 20 have
I their digestion thrown out OF order II
they are called on 10 eat much OF n.
clover cut IN bloom and nicely cured
is fine for heavy horses that are .loing
hard work and d ~ good when they