Preparation of Feeding Stuffs. 235 



The use of silage will greatly extend the practice of soiling. A 

 com crop stored in the fall may be partially fed out during winter 

 and the remainder utilized as needed dui'ing the summer. Many 

 dairymen are making use of the silo for summer feeding, with 

 excellent results. 



Where lands are high priced, or where the stockman desires to 

 keep a large number of cattle upon a limited acreage, soiling is 

 the best possible means to that end. Cattle fed by soiling should 

 always be allowed exercise in the open lot where they can enjoy 

 the sunshine and fresh air. This can be provided by making use 

 of a small pasture. 



II. Preparation of Feed for Live Stock. 



369. Concerning cooked feed. — The early writers on agriculture 

 fUHually recommended the cooking or steaming of all kinds of feed, 

 lu 1812 Arthur Young i described a gruel for stock which he 

 claimed to be exceedingly nutritious and economical. 



Morton, author of the Cyclopedia of Agriculture, recommended 

 cooking or steaming feed. Later writers, however, have advanced 

 the strongest arguments. 



Prof. Mapes wrote :* ''Eaw food is not in condition to be ap- 

 proximated to the tissues of animal life. The experiment, often 

 tried, has proved that eighteen or nineteen jjounds of cooked corn 

 are equal to fifty pounds of ravr corn for hog feed." 



Joseph Sullivant, a member of the Ohio State Board of Agri- 

 culture, wrote:^ ''I conclude that nine pounds of pork from a 

 bushel of raw corn fed in the ear, twelve pounds from raw meal, 

 thirteen and a half pounds from boiled corn, and sixteen and a 

 half pounds from cooked meal, is no more than a moderate aver- 

 age the feeder may expect to realize from a bushel of com under 

 ordinary circumstances of weather, with dry and clean feeding 

 pens. All this is within the amounts we have shown to be prob- 

 able and attainable upon our chemical basis." 



Other authorities could be quoted, but these suffice to show that 

 the teachers were generally in favor of cooking food for stock. 



' A system of preparing: corn, etc., for the cheaper feeding of horses, etc. 

 » Trans, Am. Inst., 1854, p. 373. 

 ' !:.pi. Ohio Bd. Agr., 1S09. 



