Year: 1878

Errors i'm Cooking Food.


Prof E. w. Stuart, OF Erie county,
New York, has the following remarks on
the above named subject in the Country
Gentlemen


The difference of opinion among farm
ers as to the result of cooking food for
stock arises very largely from the differ
ent methods of cooking. Mr.. Hoffman,
an excellent farmer, is reported lately in
the Elmira farmers club, as giving his
experience in this mode of preparing
cattle food, in which he says: " In a
small dairy I tried cooked food for short
time. took corn ground in the ear and
poured on boiling water, letting the mess
stand until it was oeol enough to iced,
when it was given to the COWS week.
They were then changed to dry feed a
week, and then returned to the cooked
meal, so alternating for four weeks I
measured the milk carefully and found
no advantage in favor Of the cooked feed.
There was no perceptible difference be.
tween the weeks when the COWS were fed
on raw and when on cooked meal. II the
| product of the dairy affords any criterion
by which to judge what the effect of
cooked meal would be when given to
make flesh, I must conclude that fuel
and labor would be wasted. | must
conclude that cooking hay is positive
injury"


Here is frank statement of opinion
from the facts given, and the only error
in his conclusion is that he called this
cooking meal. But if he ever eats corn
pudding, commonly called "hasty pud-
ding" would he like this method of cook
ing applied to it. If the cook should
take quart ofmeal in pan and "pour
on boiling water, letting it stand until
cool enough to eat," would he call that
cooked pudding? He would be likely to
use very different term in describing its
coDdition-not complimentary to the
cook. Yet it appears from the candor Of
this statement, that Mr.. Fl. considered
this as testing fairly the system of cooking
cattle food: and he pronounces final
judgment upon it in club whose pro-
ceediDgs have wide publicity. This
clearly shows the necessity of coming to
some conclusion as to what cooking cattle
food is. Cooking meal must mean sub.
jecting it to boiling water or steam until
all parts of the mass have been penetrated
by boiling temperature and the grains
of starch burst by expansion.


This is the true definition of cooking all
farinaceous substances, whether found in
tubers like potatoes, or in seeds like corn.
Grains of starch expand largely when
transformed into soluble gum by heat in
cooking, as when a small kernel of corn
is changed into large kernel of hominy.
Cooking effects this remarkable alteration
in the constituents of the seed. Ifa pound
of meat were the same thing as pound
OF meal baked into good bread, then in
deed cooking would be superduous labor
whether for man or beast. Mr.. Stuart
says:


Meal alone, in nearly all cases, goes di.
rectly to the fourth stomach, and has not
the benefit of the macerating process ot
the first stomach. But if mixed with
cut hay or straw it will be carried to the
rumen and have the benefit of remastica
ton. So it will be seen that no advantage
could be expected from wetting with hot
water in the manner mentioned, even
though the experiment had been properly
tried in other respects. But had the
cooking been properly done, this expert
ment, as detailed, would have proved
nothing, since some weeks time could
decide nothing in any system Of feeding


The wife of Pennsylvania clergy
man, when dying recently, called MIN tt
her bedside and saiG; "Don't grow NOR
bid when am gone. Go into society, b.
cheerful, and let no regard for my mem
ory check you when you see fit to marry
again. Iti my wish the children must
be cared for; you will need a helper il
your work. You cannot live alone, you
temperament is all against it; onl.
choose cheerful woman, and teach he
to love our children. Don't answer, ant
don't be governed by what the worl1
says or thinks .~


The reason why woman require
large wallet for the trans oortatiol
of twenty-five cent shinplaster, i
as deeply wrapped in mystery, as the rea
son why a dog always turns around thre
times when he gets up after a nap.
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