New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-26
Feeding Potatoes


tricts are often confronted with large
supply of potatoes and profitless mar
ket. Moreover, says the American Steel
and Wire Company, in its weekly crop
report, there will always be the pig
potatoes" and culls. Every farm should
possesses the information necessary for
making good use Of potatoes.
Cattle foods may be divided roughly
into roughages and concentrates.
Ensilage from corn and potatoes and
hay are roughages. Dried potatoes, bar
ley, kaffir, oilcakes and middlings are
examples of concentrates.
TO go step beyond this: Chemist.
studying animal nutrition have found
cattle feeds to be made Of substances
containing nitrogen protein sub
stances, substances free from nitrogen
Carbohydrates. woody or fibre sub
stances fibre and fats or oils.
An example Of nitrogen bearing sub
stance is the yellow gluten of the corn
kernel. The starch from corn is an
example of nitrogen free substance
The hull of the corn is an example Of
woody or fibrous substance. The oil
from the germ of the kernel of corn is
an example of fat or oil.
Broadly, cow is made up Of sub
stances containing nitrogen large
,kgta fror Nit y n.
gen (small quantity and fat large
quantities..
An example OF substance contain
ing nitrogen is a piece of muscle. An
example Of substance containing no
nitrogen is liver sugar, called glycogen.
An example of a substitute containing
fat is piece of suet
The woody fibre substance which
makes up cell walls in plants is in ami
mails replaced by cell walls made of
nitrogen bearing substance.
The COW eats the yellow gluten, oil
and starch of the corn. and converts
these materials into albuminous sub
stances known as lean meat, fat, liver
sugar, blood and body juices.
Everything that is deposited as flesh
or fat in the body of the cow has first
to be taken from the plant, dissolved
by body juices and absorbed into the
blood, there TO be changed back into
albumin and fat, and by the blood car
ried to some place in the body and
deposited or held in the blood against
time of need. The blood rich in the
soluble material it has absorbed goes
to every part of the body once every
forty seconds and washes the living
cells with life-giving matter.
The problem Of, feeding animals is
70 seek out nitrogen bearing sub
stances, nitrogen-free substances and
fats or oils, that may be most eco
nomically transformed into the cor
responding substances in the body of
the animal fed. Moreover, these sub
stances must be fed in varying pro-
portions to secure the best results.
While corn furnishes all the neces-
sary elements, unfortunately they are
not present in proportion to produce
greatest gains in the most economical
manner. Certain quantities of other
feeds must be added to the corn fed.
When it comes TO feeding, the po-
tato is more unbalanced than corn,
and TO secure the greatest gains in
the most economical manner substances
rich in nitrogen must be added TO Sc
cure the well balanced ration. Such
substances are the oil cakes, clover,
alfalfa.
Europeans have used potatoes for
years for feeding swine and other
farm animals. They discovered steam
ing the potatoes fed swine added to
the food value. Feeding steamed po-
tatoes, barley and cake has long
proved a profitable business. Boiling
the potato is not equivalent TO steam
ing II.
Danish work has shown 400 pounds
OF potatoes are worth 100 pounds of
mixed grains for swine. Professor
Henry found AS pounds Of potatoes
equal TO 100 pounds of cornmeal for
pigs.
The feeding Of horses with steamed
potatoes and chopped hay and straw
has been developed into a going sys.
TEN, known as the Weiszermel Sys-
tenn" The animals remain in good
health, with but slight if any intesti-
nal trouble, and with normal work
ing capacity. This means IL il pos !
slble 10 almost replace oats when the
substances are considered on their dry
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