The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-22

/ cowpea. etc.-contsins about twice the
quantity of digestible protein that hay
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 increa sed. 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 homtny
and contain the gum and coarser p0r-
tons of the corn.
The esta Adjustment Of beet sugar fac
tories in this country has led to the
production of immense quantities OF
sugar beet pulp as q 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 q very
fair quality Of silage. 1t is relished BY
cattle, even the slightly spoiled por-
tons not being distasteful to them
As the sugar beet crop is an exhaustive
one and the fertility Of the soil can be
maintained by feeding the pulp II BE-
comes quite an important matter that
farmers growing sugar beets should
combine with it the feeding Of the pulp
where practicable.
Molasses is another product OF the
beet sugar manufacture which &C.
cumulates in large quantities. In En-
rope 1t has been found to possess con-
sidera BILE value for feeding. For this
purpose II has been mixed with peat.
dried blood. beet pulp or with mix
ture of feeding stuffs. such as bran
and palm nut meal. in order that II
might be more conveniently handled.
The effect Of drying hay is not to
lessen its digestibility. as is often be
lieved. Hay stored for a long time,
even when kept dry and not allowed to
heat appears to lose part OF its val
ne as food.
Experiments abroad have indicated
that cooking or steaming coarse or IN
palatable food was advantageous. not
on account OF making the food more
nutritious. but in inducing the animals
TO eat larger quantities Of It In ten
trials made by experiment stations
there has not only been no gain from
cooking. but there has been a positive
loss.
The Mississippi station concludes
from three years work that the milk
and butter from cows fed on stea med
cottonseed 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 II 1t can be done
for cents a bushel. Soaking wheat
for pigs is quite generally recon-
mended.
The Maine station compared the
value Of chopped and unehopped 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 country roots are
not grown TO any great extent in COM
parison with corn, which furnishes q
larger and cheaper supply Of food ma
terial from given area than any other
crop. Silage proves more acceptable
TO stock than dry fodder, and they will
consume a larger amount Of dry matter
in that form. 1t is found adapted to
nearly all kinds Of farm animals, In
Guiding horses, sheep and pigs
Selling means the feeding Of farm
animals more or less confined on green
forage fresh from the fields. Partial
soiling is much more common, being
relied upon to carry the animals over
period when pastures are short The
Wisconsin station found that one acre
Of soiling crops was equal to about
two and one-half acres Of good blue
grass pasture for feeding dairy cows,
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