Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-02
STOCKNEN TO RAISE FUND
To Show Value of Protein Rations at
National Corn Exposition.
CORN ALONE TOO EXPENSIVE
Corn Higher and Hogs Lower Causes
Farmers Big Loss and Live stock
Interests Propose to Take
Hand.

Plans are being made by the live stock
interests Of South Omaha to subscribe
special fund to be used in demonstrating
to farmers the value of protein rations
when mixed with corn as a food for hogs,
believing that the time has arrived when
corn cannot be profitably fed as 1t was
in years gone by. The demonstration will
be made one of the features of the Ma
tional Corn exposition, which is to be held
in Omaha
The necessity for the demonstration,
which will lead to greater profits for the
hog producers, is shown in the inquiries
which are made almost every day to those
interested in the corn show. The expert
ence related to Prof. ]. wilkes Jones at
the Nebraska Press association by one
large feeder and hog grower. is said by
South Omaha live stock dealers, TO be a
common one.
THE farmer told me that he began to
feed two cars of shoats last fall" said
Prof. Jones THE price Of hogs was a
little off, but corn was bringing a good
price. Several years ago. according 10
the farmer, the price of corn and pork
went up and down together, but recently
the price of corn has gone higher and
hogs have gone lower. The farmer has
fed the hogs all winter on corn he raised
himself, but from the amount consumed he
would have made enough to buy a new
automobile If he had sold the corn and
shoats last fall He simply could not af-
ford to put corn into pork and sell the hogs
at present market prices"
According to Prof. Jones. hundreds Of
farmers are making the same expensive
blunder and he declares that straight corn
cannot be fed to hogs with profit in the
frItira nd OF ho
combining the foods.
Glucose VS.. Hogs.
''In the earlier days most OF the corn
crop was fed to live stock or made into
whisky" said Prof. Jones. To-day, only
a small per cent of the corn crop is used
for making whisky. More than one-half
of the corn crop of the corn belt states is
fed on the farms. There are but a few
surplus corn producing states. The re-
naming states feed about all that is grown |
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri |
and Kansas are the principal corn pro-
ducing states. These states are important
live stock states. but the several glucose |
and hominy mills and other industries are |
bidding against the feeder for the corn |
crop. The glucose industry alone consumes |
from 100000 to 5O,OoO,0OO bushels of corn |
per annum. This is equal to the surplus |
crop sold out of the state of Nebraska |
In early days the potato crop of the state |
of New York furnished the raw material |
for the great starch factories, bat later the |
most OF the worlds starch supply came
from corn.
Raw starch was worth from S45 to S55 |
per ton. Science came into partnership
with the corn growers and another entirely
new industry was developed along with
starch making. machine was perfected
that would seperate the germ from the
grit portion of the kernel.
THE germ heart of the kernel con-
tains considerable oil. BY proper process
ing this germ yields a liberal amount of
oil-about two pounds OF oil from each
bushel of corn, valued at about cents per
pound or 800 per ton, as compared with
starch at half that value. Ten cents per
bushel on corn amounts to a considerable
sum, especially with a great factory con-
suming 10000 bushels per day, and the in
teresting part of the whole affair is that
this oil was formerly even worse than a
by-product. Cornmeal or hominy or corn
flour, IL made from the whole kernel of
corn, would soon turn Strong" The oil
would become rancid The country miller
Today must grind cornmeal at frequent in
-ervals or his customers will complain of
strong" bread.
Protein Foods Needed.
THE oil does not turn rancid so readily
before the kernel is crushed-while the oil
s yet sealed up in natures cells Now that
process is found for removing the germ
which contains almost all of the oil, the
'ormer objection is overcome and very
1aluable product is now manufactured. /
1T means that corn can not be profit :
IDLY fed in haphazard fashion, as was
he case in earlier days. The experiment !
tation has plainly demonstrated that the
eeder needs alfalfa or clover for a protein
alton to properly balance the oil content in I
orn The best types OF corn that are grown Z
oday contain more oil than did the corn c
en- years ago, when we received only IS I
ND 20 cents per bushel for corn instead Of