24O FARM MACHINERY 



341. Corn crushers. It is within only the past three 

 or four years that the value of crushed corn has become 

 generally known to the cattle feeders. One principal 

 reason for this is that in crushing corn the crushers may 

 be so arranged that the husks may be chopped with the 

 ear. By this means the feeder is enabled to give his cat- 

 tle snapped corn which is broken or crushed fine enough 

 so it is practically a coarse shelled corn mixed with 

 ground cob and husks. One great advantage derived 

 from such a scheme is that the crushing of the corn can 

 be done very cheaply, it requiring only two or three 

 horse power to crush 40 or 50 bushels an hour. Several 

 feed grinders for grinding corn and cob are provided with 

 a separate crusher and it is a question if this is not the 

 most profitable means of grinding the*corn and cob. 



