Evening bulletin., 1911-03-18
TWIGS GOOD FOR
CATTLE FODDER
Wisconsin Dairyman Discovers
New Value In Wood
From CIearingS.

MARINETTE, Wis, Mar. 1.-C. 1.
Cook millionaire dairyman and mar
ket gardener of this city, has just
/ given to the world the results of sew
eral years study on the problem of
securing a cheap and effective food for
cattle of all kinds, that promises to
revolutionize dairying in the northern
portion of the country this year, and
which in a short time will be taken up
! by all the newly settled districts of the
entire country. Mr. Cook has COM
pleted the working out of a process
whereby a food for cattle as well as
| farm stock of all kinds can be secured
from the limbs, branches and twigs of
trees and shrubs which accumulate
| during the clearing of lands.
| The discovery of this process reads
| like a romance to those who give it but
| passing thought, but to the student
| of agriculture and dairying methods it
is simply the adapting of old methods
to new uses.
Mr. Cook, before he took up farming
to any great extent, was a wholesale
grocer and still owns large interests in
this line. He has always been a stu
dent of nature and lover of out of
door life. Some years ago, while
hunting in Northern Wisconsin, he
noted that the deer had eaten the ends
of the branches of shrubs and trees
down to point where the limbs were
over one-half an inch in diameter.
Having just purchased $500 acres of
wild cut over lands, which he intended
to develop for dairying and market
gardening, his next thought was nat
urally the adapting of this woody food
to farm animals. He reasoned that the
digestive organs of a deer and a COW
were in all ways similar, and that the
COW would thrive on this same food II
properly prepared in a palatable form.
A little later he secured some of the
branches of an alder shrub and beat
them into pulp with hammer. He
then offered quantity of it to a COW,
but bossy promptly turned the mixture
down and would have nothing to do
with It, A quantity of 1t was then
placed before her and her regular food
ration was cut off. Upon returning
next day it was found that the COW
had eaten all of the pulp and that she /,
relished it. More of it was supplied
and strict tests as to quantity and
quality of milk were made.
Within a few days clover and tim
othy had no charm for the cow when
wood pulp was available. The milk
tests showed a heavier flow of milk,
and Mr. Cook then came to the deci-
sion that he had run upon a discovery
that called for further attention.
He began a search for grinder that
would answer the purpose and found
the article desired with a st. Louis
farm. Wood ground in the machine
was then submitted to experts, and
tests showed that it contained more
protene than did clover or timothy hay
The grinder has since been installed
by Mr.. Cook in a building in this city,
and in clearing new lands Mr.. Cook
has ordered that every twig ana
branch not large enough for firewood,
be turned over to the grinder. Several
types of food have been made, some
of them adapted to growing calves,
others to milch cows, and still others
to beef cattle. Some of the wood pulp
txyAttr of
stalks, another type contains ground
grains. others contain beet sugar mo-
Iasses, and in other cases the wood
pulp is fed just as it comes from the
grinder.
After six months feeding on wood
pulp, Mr. Cook has a dairy herd of
three hundred cattle that are in excel
lent condition. They have added flesh,
and milk tests show greater returns
than before the new method of feeding,
The directors of the Wisconsin Ad-
Association, also those OF
the Northern Michigan Association, Wis
tied the grinding room this week, also
Mr.. Cooks farm One and all join in
the claim that Mr. Cook has discoV-
cry that will revolutionize dairy feed
ing. There is no spot in the country
outside of the treeless and arid States
that can not make use of the new
method. Demands for information on
the new method are flooding the mails
of the Wisconsin Advancement Asso-
citation.
In an interview Mr.. Cook said: u
believe my discovery will revolutionlze
dairying and stock farming throughout
the country. I am anxious to give my
discovery to the world A man can
now begin clearing a tract of cut-over
land and begin his dairy herd the same
day. 1t means an advance of from one
to two years for the average farmer
settling in a new district. / give you
my unrestricted permission to publish
the facts"