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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 14 
A TALK ABOUT STOCK FOODS. 
Over In Connecticut they have a law 
regulating the sale of feedstuffs for 
stock. The Connecticut Station has just 
issued an interesting bulletin describing 
the commercial feeds for sale in that 
State. Some interesting information is 
given regarding the origin of some of 
these feeds. For instance, we are told 
how cotton-seed meal is made. It seems 
that the black outer cover or hull of 
the cotton seed is broken off by ma¬ 
chinery, and separated from the yellow 
kernels. These kernels are cooked, and 
while still hot, are subjected to powerful 
pressure. This squeezes out part of the 
oil, and leaves the cotton-seed cake in 
very hard plates or sheets, which can be 
cut with a saw, like boards. These 
cakes, when broken and finely ground, 
make the cotton-seed meal sold in the 
market. Linseed meal is prepared in 
two different ways. Under the old pro¬ 
cess, the flaxseed was crushed while 
warm, under hydraulic pressure, and 
thus most of the oil was squeezed out. 
The hard cakes that were left were 
broken and ground up to make old- 
process meal. Under the new process 
the oil is taken out of the crushed seed 
by a solvent, like benzine, and this is 
afterwards steamed out of the seed. 
The old process usually contains from 
four to five per cent more of oil or fat 
than the new process. In regard to 
wheat feeds, Dr. Jenkins makes the fol¬ 
lowing statement: 
These are by-products in the manufacture 
of wheat flour. Several different processes 
of milling are in common use, yielding by¬ 
products which are not entirely alike in 
composition. There are also differences in 
composition between the products from 
Winter wheat and those from Spring wheat. 
Wheat bran consists of the outer layers of 
the wheat berry, which are dark in color 
and do not easily pulverize. Wheat mid¬ 
dlings, as found in the feed market, con¬ 
sist of inner layers of the covering of the 
berry, which are lighter in color and more 
easily pulverized than bran, and of other 
parts from which fine white flour cannot be 
made. Red Dog flour is the poorest grade 
of flour, off color, and often sold as a cattle 
food. It is also used for paste and in 
making '‘pancake leather,” composed of 
leather scraps and flour paste, compacted 
by hydraulic pressure, stated to be made up 
into soles for children’s shoes. Many mills 
do not sell bran and middlings separately, 
but run them together and sell the product 
as “mixed feed.” Red Dog flour is also 
sometimes run into mixed feed. 
He says that at the present time, Win¬ 
ter-wheat bran is worth about 75 cents 
per ton more than Spring bran. Mid¬ 
dlings seem to show a wide range of 
composition, far more so than bran. 
This seems to be one reason why bran 
is so largely bought by farmers, because 
it is quite uniform wiien sold under 
guarantee. Speaking of corn meal, Dr. 
Jenkins says that it is poor economy to 
buy it for feeding milch cows at a cost 
of $17 to $19 per ton, when wheat feeds 
and gluten feeds can be bought at about 
the same price. The home-raised corn 
in the silo will supply nearly all this 
grain that the eastern dairyman needs. 
The gluten feeds are described as fol¬ 
lows: 
The corn, after soaking for 12 to 24 hours 
in warm water containing three-tenths of 
one per cent of sulphurous acid, is ground 
with water which carries off the mill prod¬ 
uct in suspension. By rightly adjusting 
the amount of water and corn, the chits 
or germs separated by the grinding float 
on the surface and are skimmed off. A 
large percentage of oil may be removed 
from these chits by pressure and the germ 
cake may be sold by itself or in mixture 
as a cattle food. After separating the 
germs, and straining to remove part of the 
starch, the residue is ground once more, 
and again passed over sieves which retain 
the hull or husk of the kernel. This is 
dried, ground and sold as corn chop. The 
gluten or nitrogenous matter of the kernel 
and the starch suspended in water which 
have passed together through the sieves 
are next run with water over settling 
tables, when the starch, by reason of its 
greater specific gravity, settles first out of 
the stream of water and is thus separated 
from the gluten. The gluten is dried, 
ground and sold as cattle food, while the 
starch alone is used in the factory. It will 
be seen from this description that no chem¬ 
ical Is used in this process, except a very 
small quantity of sulphurous acid, which 
must be completely washed out with the 
large quantities of wash water used. 
Dr. Jenkins gives the composition of 
the various oat feeds which are sold in 
the market. Analysis shows that they 
are chiefly mixtures of the oat refuse 
left in preparing the human oat foods, 
and mixtures of corn, wheat, cotton-seed 
and linseed meals. Among other ma¬ 
terials examined was the American cat¬ 
tle-feeding salts. This was found to 
contain 16 per cent of common salt, 6314 
per cent of Glauber’s salts, 4.8 per cent 
of Epsom salts, and 9.3 per cent of car¬ 
bonate of soda, 114 per cent of matter in¬ 
soluble in water, and the remainder 
water or some volatile matter. Yet the 
people who sold this stuff had the cheek 
to say that when it was added to the 
other food, it was a means of growing 
prime beef, brighter in color, wavy or 
marbled in texture, and with pure white 
fat, in much less time than is possible 
under the present system of feeding. It 
is just such humbugs as that which are 
exposed by the work done at the Con¬ 
necticut Station. These frauds are afraid 
of printer’s ink, and that is just the rea¬ 
son why it should be daubed on to them 
in large letters. 
Boiled Beans for Cows. 
On page 232 G. W. F. of St. Lawrence, 
N. Y., inquires about feeding bean meal 
to dairy cows. For about 25 years I 
used beans (bean pickings and damaged 
or old beans), for feeding dairy cows in 
Winter, most of the time for the whole 
grain ration. I sometimes used more 
than 300 bushels per year. In all I have 
used thousands of bushels. At first I 
had the beans ground, and fed the meal. 
I found that even very small rations of 
the meal caused scouring. I could not 
feed as much as two quarts per day with 
safety. I then began boiling the beans. 
I cooked them several hours, so that 
they were in about the condition of Bos¬ 
ton baked beans. Thus prepared I found 
them the safest and best grain ration 
I ever fed. I never fed any other ra¬ 
tion which would make equal increase 
of milk. I never knew a cow decline to 
eat it, and never knew one injured by it, 
even when fed excessively of it; and to 
try, I have fed two large water buckets 
full per day. I have never known cows 
to refuse to eat raw beans, but have had 
them made sick by doing so. I used 
a large set kettle in which I could cook 
six or eight bushels at once. They will 
usually swell more than half. By tend¬ 
ing the fire carefully they can be 
cooked nearly dry without burning. 
When taking them out to feed, scrape 
from the top, not disturbing the beans 
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