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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



opinion, however, exists respecting the beneficial or injurious effects of the ground cob on the 

 animal system; some regarding it as possessing sufficient nutriment to make it profitable for 

 grinding, others regarding it of no value as food, and as injurious to young stock, it having 

 a tendency to cause irritation of the digestive organs; while for fattening animals so large a 

 quantity is needed that the stomach will be unduly distended by it. In order to fatten 

 animals rapidly very nutritious food is required, and not simply bulk. As we have never 

 made use of cob-meal, we cannot speak from experience, but should consider cobs as more 

 valuable for manure than food, since they contain quite a proportion of potash, provided they 

 could be reduced to a suitable manure to be returned to the land. 



SHELLER FOR EITHER HUSKED OR UNHUSKED CORN. 



In order that the farmer may be able to grind his own grain, and have it done at his 

 own convenience, farm mills for grinding corn and other kinds of grain are not only very 

 desirable, but in many sections of the country where farming is conducted on a large 

 scale, they are regarded as an indispensable farm implement; especially are they so on those 

 extensive farms devoted mainly to grain-growing and live-stock, and under such conditions 

 it is not only a necessity and convenience, but the practice of economy as well, and in most 



cases, although attended with some 

 expense at first, such a mill will 

 pay for itself in a short time. The 

 power used for grinding may be 

 the same as for other farm work 

 i= of a similar kind, viz., the farm 

 engine, windmill, or horse-power. 

 The two accompanying illus 

 trations of farm mills, from the 

 ^ manufactory of Deere, Mansur & 

 Co., St. Louis, Mo., represent im- 

 !J| plements that will grind all kinds 

 of grain, coarse or fine ; corn can 

 be ground either shelled or in the 

 ear, husked or unhusked. The 

 I first represented is provided with 

 a large feed-boxes, tubes for the un 

 husked corn, and a seat for the 

 FARM MILL, LITTLE GIANT. driver, who does the feeding. In 



