Oxford Democrat., 1921-11-08
Prof. Corbett Speaks.

In speaking before the East Oxford
Dairy Testing Association at East Sum-
ner, Prof. L. 8. Corbett, head of the
department Of Animal Industry, Univer-
sity of Maine, covered many points of
vital interest to dairymen.
"The tester," said Prof. Corbett, "can
be of direct help to the members by CIV
ing information gained from observation
of the practices OF various farmers with
respect to care and feeding of the ami
mails. The biggest thing to be gotten,
however, is the records. Through these
the members can observe the differences
in production of the individuals and
thereby eliminate the Improbable ones.
sour COWS should be the means for
selling the feed We give them. Use the
records to tell which COWS sell our feed
at the greatest profit to us. Why keep
an animal not bringing proft9 Here
is market that the farmers have con-
troll over. 1t takes time to get high
producing herd, but It can be DONE"
Calling attention to the summary OF
the records for the first three months
period, Prof. Corbett pointed to two
herds of the same breed. The average
| production of the COWS of one of the
herds was valued at $37.00 more than the
other, due either to better feeding, bet
ter animals, or both.
| While touching upon rations 1t was
brought out that It would pay farmer
to mix bis own rations, even though the
saving might not be over twenty cents .
hundred. In most cases the saving
amounts to about fifty cents.
"The first thing In buying any feed is
to consider the analysis" said Prof. Cor
bett. "The higher the fibre content the
less digestible is the feed. Try to buy Q
feed with fibre content as low ss 10 per
cent. Some have given preference to Q
Tighter colored feed thinking It was bet
ter. Take, for instance, hominy. There
il the white hominy made from white
corn and the yellow made from yellow
corn. The white costs two dollars more
. hundred, but is no better for feeding
than the yellow. -
"a lot OF attention has been recently
given to molasses for feeding. This is q
straight carbohydrate feed which 10 te
be compared with corn. 1t has been
said that the fat content In milk might
be raised by feeding molasses. have
bad charge of exhaustive tests In feeding
molasses to COWS, and know that thii
is not true"
i Among several questions answered fol
the members were the following: How
much more valuable is corn with earl
than without ears for silagef What u
the comparative value Of millet To-
silagef What 10 tho best feed to supple
{ ment pasture?
b In answering the first, Prof. Corbet
:. stated that the corn with ears was mucl
more valuable because more milk coul'
be secured and less grain needed to b
fed to COWS having this kind OF silage
The corn being recommended By th
i. Farm Bureau has the advantage OF bot
i ear production and heavy yielding quail
ties.
"The best silage now known ID corr
2 and sunfower probably comes next Wit
. millet third In order for this state. Th
q summer silo with good silsge 10 the bel
source Of feed to supplement pasture" !"
Pointing ont the value of continuin
COW test association work, Prof. Corbe
Il Cited the fact that Wisconsin, the BIZ
Igest dairy state In the union and tt
"a fIrst to start these associations, now hs
Ii 1OS and they have been inoressing sint
1905, when the frst ones were organizes
an There are now 45S In the United State