€4 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



without too much trouble may gather something of advantage from 

 this report which I will read. 



It has often been claimed that apple pomace has no feeding value 

 and the practice of almost all the cider mills in throwing away the 

 pomace, shows that this belief in its worthlessness is widespread. 

 Chemical analysis has always said that there was considerable feed- 

 ing material in pomace, and the station undertook to find out 

 whether this was so. As the pomace from the mill would not keep, 

 it was determined to put it into the silo and see whether by exclu- 

 sion of air it could be preserved ; the result was a perfect success. 

 About. six tons of pomace was put into a small silo six feet square, 

 each load was leveled and tramped down firmly, and when the last 

 load was in, the whole was allowed to stand and heat to about 90° ; 

 it was then covered and weighted with stones about 60 pounds to 

 the square foot. The heat decreased at once and when the cover 

 was removed a month later the pomace was found in a state of per- 

 fect preservation, and remained so during all the weeks that we were 

 feeding it. The milch cows like it exceedingly ; when there is any 

 in their mangers, they take it in preference to an}^ other fodder we 

 can give them and eat it all before beginning on hay or corn fodder 

 which was usually given with it. There was no decrease in the 

 milk flow, as has often been claimed to be the result of feeding 

 apple or pomace, and we probably get from it the full feeding value 

 as indicated by chemical analysis. We feed ten pounds a day in 

 two feeds of five pounds each, night and morning. Feeding in this 

 way a cow would eat a ton during the winter season, and there can 

 be no doubt that it would be a good investment for any dairyman 

 to put up for winter as many tons of apple pomace as he has cows. 

 Now Mr. President and Fellow Workers of the State Pomological 

 Society, you, I doubt not, query in your minds regarding my faith 

 in the assertions pi'esented. I say in all honor to you and the 

 principles of our Society that while they may be true, I wish to take 

 no stock in them. By rights of purchase and inheritance two- 

 thirds of this orchard I have referred to was once mine but I have 

 disposed of it that I could put more time and means into an orchard 

 ■ that I could look forward to as producing fruit suitable for some- 

 thing better than feeding to swine or the golden hoofed sheep. We 

 may in some seasons be comj^elled to dispose of No. 3s by feeding 

 but no thorough-going pomologist can afford to allow a young, 

 thrifty tree to grow fruit fit only for feeding to stock, when the 



