The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-17
For the Farm
Eireside
Does 1t Pay TO Feed Ground Grains
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Does 1t Pay to Feed Ground Grain?
AS stated in former article, says
writer in Farm and Fireside, we have
found that the best-informed farmers
and feeders in the country agree, and
strongly advocate, that the grinding
together of corn and cob into fine
meal does pay for feeding purposes.
This. too, seems to be the consensus
of opinion as given out by scientific
men in charge of the numerous tests
carried out at our experiment stations
One striking point upon which all
seem to agree relative to the use of
corn-and-cob meal is that the cob
must be finely ground If best results
are to be obtained
Again, it appears to be advisable to
use ground feed for all kinds of stock,
as the nutriment from ground grain is
much quicker absorbed and turned in
to the various tissues than when the
kernels are fed whole or on the cob.
1t requires the expenditure of too
much vital energy in the process of
digestion to warrant the feeding of ear
corn to stock; especially is this no
ticeable in the case of COWS and fat
tening CATTLE
In preparing corn-on-cob meal-or
any other mixture or grain, for that
matter-it is not wise plan to grind
too much at one time, as the ground
grain is liable to heat and sour, and
the feeding of musty or moldy grain is
f0 ho ov0f1aI oh
We do not believe that any one
worthy the ownership of horse or
cow will question the advantage which
ground feed has over whole grain for
old animals.
From the Diseases of the Horse"
issued by the Department of Agricul-
ture, we get the following statements
relative to ground feed for horses:
"The horse should be fed three or
four times day. Bulky food must be
given, to detain the grains in the pas
sage through the intestinal tract; bulk
also favors distention and this me-
chanically aids absorption.
"Cut hay fed with crushed oats,
ground corn, etc., makes the best feed
ing, as it gives the required bulk and
saves time and labor"
RYE or wheat should never be given
whole, and even of corn it is found
that there is less waste when ground,
and, in common with all grains, it is
more easily digested than when fed
whole.
Horses which bolt their feed are
best fed on crushed grain"
BY trial it has been found at the
Maine Experiment station that about
one-sixth more of the protein, and
nearly five pounds more of the corn in
bushel, are saved by feeding meal
than by feeding whole corn. That is
about one-eleventh, or about enough to
pay for grinding. 1t should cost no
more to grind corn and cobs together
than for corn alone. Then the gain
from cobs would be net, and the per-
centage shown, by this experiment
would prove a handsome profit. Pro-
fessor Henry says pound of corn
and-cob meal has been found to have
the same feeding value as pound of
pure corn-meal. "The great prepond-
erance of testimony goes to show that
those who fee dit are almost without
exception pleased. 1 am sure that
corn-and-cob meal would come into
very general use if it were not for the
difficulty of reducing the cob to
proper degree of fineness for feeding"
The following summary of an exper-
iment recently conducted at the New
Jersey Experiment station will be of
interest to every breeder of live stock.
The experiment was conducted for the
purpose of determining the value of
ear corn. as compared with corn-and-
cob meal, as a feed for dairy COWS in
milk
In this experiment one hundred and
fourteen pounds of corn-and-cob meal
gave an increase of forty-f1ve pounds
of milk over the same amount of ear
corn which at one and one-half cents
pound would have amounted to
sixty-seven and one-half cents.
On this basis the value of one ton of
corn-and-cob meal would be nine dol
lars and thirty-eight cents more than
one ton of ear corn. Assuming that
only one cent pound could have been
secured, the feeding value of ton of
corn-and-cob meal would be six dol
lars and twenty-five cents more than
ton of ear-corn. Now, assuming that
there was some extra expense con-
nected with husking and grinding the
corn, there yet appears to have been
a favorable showing in favor of the
ground corn.