380 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



economic point of view. Corn is more heating 

 than wheat bran, but its excellence as a cattle 

 food cannot be denied. For young animals it 

 is best fed as meal; for older animals roughly 

 crushed. The rationale of this is obvious. The 

 smooth, flinty, outer coatings of the grain do 

 not offer a ready access to the gastric juices 

 and a large part of the grain passes out into the 

 draught unaffected by the digestive processes. 

 A great economy is, therefore, effected by feed- 

 ing crushed corn. Of course in all cases the 

 hay or straw should be fed with the grain. 

 The digestive processes of all ruminants require 

 an abundance of "roughness" for healthy ac- 

 tion. 



There is no room for dogmatism in the mat- 

 ter of foods. All sorts of grains roots, forage 

 plants, etc., have their claims, and it is largely 

 a question of locality, and what can be cheaply 

 and advantageously grown in any given place. 

 I find no single thing more useful in feeding 

 than sorghum. It has the greatest fattening 

 qualities, is eaten greedily, increases to a mar- 

 velous degree the flow of milk, and from the 

 end of August to the first of December it is one 

 of my chief resources. What sorghum is to 

 me, roots are in the farm economy of Canada. 

 They cannot raise sorghum to advantage; we 

 cannot raise roots. Each latitude must adapt 

 itself to its climatic and other conditions. 



