Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-06-19


from the grasses does. The seeds OF
these plants (cowpea, soy bean, etc.
are exceedingly rich in protein and can
take the place Of expensive CONNER.
cial feeds. BY growing and feeding
more leguminous crops the amount OF
grain required is diminished, the value
of the manure is increased, and the soil
Is enriched in fertility.
The byproducts resulting from the
manufacture Of -four, glucose, starch,
cottonseed oil, linseed oil, fermented
liquors, etc, are extensively used for
feeding purposes and include many of
the richest and most priced feeding
stuffs. Hominy chop, meal and feed
result from the manufacture of hominy
and contain the gum and coarser por.
tions of the corn.
The establishment of beet sugar fac
tories in this country has led to the
production Of immense quantities of
sugar beet pulp as a waste material.
Professor Thomas Shaw expresses his
belief that sugar beet pulp can be fed
more advantageously to cattle and
sheep that are being fattened than to
dairy cows. The New York Cornell
experiment station, however, found
that this material gave good results
with milk cows. In practice about ten
pounds of pulp per day are fed to sheep
and fifty to seventy-fve pounds to cat
tie. The amount in the latter case,
however, is said to depend ON the cat
tie, and more may be given up to 100
pounds If they will eat it. The pulp
is believed to effect considerable saw
ing In the amount of grain required for
fattening.
Sugar beet pulp can be successfully
preserved in silos and makes a very
fair quality Of silage. 1t Is rellshed by
cattle, even the slightly spoiled por-
tions not being dlstasteful to them.
AS the sugar beet crop is an exhaustive
one and the fertility Of the soil can be
maintained by feeding the pulp it be-
comes quite an important matter that
farmers growing sugar beets should
combine with 1t the feeding Of the pulp
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No,ossos ,s onothor n,od,o. 90 .ho
hoo. .maou ,,nnrsoa.,,na .,s,oL
cumrlotes IN large ouontitioS In I'm.
rome n has been found to nossase con.
siderable volre FOR foodIng For tbIs
nurnosa n boe heen mixed with neot
dried blood beet min nr with a miy.
tpre of faedino stuefs srcb os hran
and snaIm nut maal IN order that II
mioht be more convanientlv handled
Tho effect Of driving bav "a NOT TO
lassen its dipestibiiitv os "a often no.
lieyed. Hay stored for n long time.
s,en vh..n ieuf ,,rv ana NOT allowed to
heat appears 70 lose n mart Of its val
ne as food
Exnerimants abroad bova Indicated
that cooking or steomine coarse or nm.
noIo+ohlo food wos odvoptoocors NOT
ON account of making the food more
nutritious. but in inducing the animals
to eat larger quantities of Il In ten
trials made by experiment stations
there has not only been no gain from
cooking. but there has been a positive
loss.
fhe Mississippi station concludes
from tbree veors, work that "the mill,
and butter from COWS fed on steamed
cottouseed cost less than that from
cows fed on raw cottonseed and but
little more than one-half as much as
that from COWS fed on cottonseed meal.
The butter from steamed cottonseed is
superior in quality to that from either
raw seed or cottonseed meal" The
Texas station finds 1t advantageous to
boil cottonseed for steers.
Experiments show that it will pay to
soak corn for steers IL 1t can be done
for 6 cents a bushel. Soaking wheat
for pigs is quite generally recon.
mended.
The Maine station compared the
value of chopped and unchopped hay
for COWS and found no evidence that
the chopping had any effect. The In.
diana station found that steers made
better gains on cut than on uncut
clover hay. Cutting corn stover was
found advantageous at the Wisconsin
station.
The use in this country of some kind
of succulent feed nearly the whole
year round. to keep up the appetite
and the general condition Of the ami.
mails has become quite general. In
Europe roots are largely grown for this
purpose. In this couatry roots are
not grown to any great extent in com.
parison with corn, which furnishes a
larger and cheaper supply of food ma.
terial from n given area than any other
crop. sllage proves more acceptable
TO stock than dry fodder, and they will
consume n larger amount of dry matter
IN tbot form II is found odonted 10
nearly nil kinds of farm animals. in.
cIrdInc horses shoon ond nIgs
So,I,1o means tha foodIn" NJ farm
onIma,a r,oro on loss confInod on croon