MAIZE GRAIN AS FOOD 707 



The following extracts from Bulletins show what practical CHAP, 

 feeders think of this mixture : — XIV - 



" Practical experience is strongly in favour of using the cob 

 with the grain when feeding meal to farm animals." " Corn- 

 and-cob meal has been found very satisfactory by feeders, the 

 animals not getting ' off feed ' so easily as when pure meal is 

 fed." " Stockmen quite generally report favourably on its use." 

 " It will be found satisfactory for dairy feeding, and is recom- 

 mended whenever it is possible to secure it at not too great 

 expense for grinding." " For horses it is preferable to pure 

 maize meal ... on account of its higher percentage of cellu- 

 lose, which renders it more like oats." 



For dairy cows the Ohio Station tested its value when fed 

 with hay, as compared with ear maize, with satisfactory results 

 in favour of the corn-and-cob meal. 



For fattening bullocks, the Kansas College of Agriculture 

 (1) found that it gave a better daily gain than maize meal, and 

 that a pound of corn-and-cob meal is equal to a pound of pure 

 maize meal in feeding steers. 



In trials at the New Hampshire (1) and Kansas (2) Colleges 

 of Agriculture corn-and-cob meal proved superior to the same 

 weight of maize meal for pigs ; at the Missouri College {Bull. 

 1), however, it required very much less maize meal than corn- 

 and-cob meal to produce 100 lbs. gain in weight. 



Experiments conducted by the Paris Omnibus Company 

 showed that it proved more acceptable than pure maize meal 

 (Pott, Fulilings Landw. Zeitung, 1893, p. 483). 



It sometimes happens that the cob is not sufficiently 

 ground owing to the additional power required to make it 

 fine; if it is left too coarse, the animals usually pick out only 

 the meal, and reject the pieces of cob. If the cob is ground 

 as fine as meal (not merely crushed, but ground into a perfect 

 meal), it is probable that 100 lbs. of corn-and-cob meal will 

 give the same result as 100 lbs. of pure maize meal, the per- 

 centage of cob to meal on an ear being between 1 : 3 and 1 : 4, 

 in South Africa. The relative value will therefore depend 

 on the cost of grinding, assuming that there will be a one-fifth 

 gain in feeding value; if the cost is not more than 50 per 

 cent greater than that of shelling and grinding the grain into 

 maize meal, it is estimated that it will pay to grind the un- 



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