Miscellaneous Feeding Stuffs. 203 



ducing its value. If allowed to ferment in dirty tanks it may be- 

 come a dangerous food. 



304. Whey. — Whey is a poor feed for calves and can be used only 

 in a limited way at best. (478) For pigs it has about half the value 

 of skim milk. It should be fed in combination with wheat middlings, 

 com, linseed oil meal, etc. At the Ontario Agricultural College,^ 

 Day secured as good results with whey, somewhat soured, as with 

 sweet whey. The feeder should not conclude from this that decom- 

 posing whey held in filthy vessels is a suitable feed for stock. (887) 



305. Spreading tuberculosis. — Since milk from different farms is 

 mixed at the creamery or cheese factory, the germs of bovine tuber- 

 culosis may be widely spread from a diseased herd in the skim milk, 

 buttermilk, or whey. The careful farmer will insist that these prod- 

 ucts be first pasteurized at the factory, as is successfully done in 

 Denmark. 



VI. Slaughter-house, Sugar-factory, and Distillery By-products. 



306. Flesh waste. — The slaughter houses now furnish to the feeder 

 great quantities of by-products, such as meat meal, beef meal, tank- 

 age, dried blood, etc. These are usually extremely rich in protein, 

 and those carrying bone are also rich in lime and phosphorus. Farm 

 animals rarely object to these feeding stuffs and they are highly 

 digestible. Owing to the high prices which such feeds command, 

 the feeder should understand their nature and know how to com- 

 pound them with other feeding stuffs in order to make the most of 

 them. Shaw of the Michigan Station^ found that tankage could suc- 

 cessfully take the place of skim milk in pig feeding from weaning 

 time on, a fact of importance to many stockmen. (888-891) Accord- 

 ing to Wolff,^ meat meal has been found satisfactory in cattle feed- 

 ing. For cows and oxen a limited quantity should at first be sup- 

 plied, the amount being gradually increased until each animal re- 

 ceives 2 or 3 lbs. daily. Sheep digest meat meal as completely as do 

 pigs, and thrive on it. 



La Querriere* states that boiled meat meal mixed ^^dth hay- and 

 straw is excellent for horses. The Arabs feed their horses camel's 

 flesh mixed with other feed in the form of cakes. Scheurer^ has shown 

 that meat scrap, mixed with ground grain and baked into a bread, 

 can be kept 7 years without deterioration. English army horses 



1 Rpt 1896. * Milchzeitung, 1881, p. 753. 



== Bui. 237. » Loe. cit. 



' Farm Foods, Eng. ed., p. 204. 



