1911. 
THE KURAb NEW-YORKER 
303 
GRINDING FEED. 
After feeding corn and cob meal for 
some time, I was told by some friends, 
older and more experienced than I, that 
the cobs would prove injurious to the 
digestive tract of the cattle and cause 
them to scour and pass blood mixed 
with mucus. Such troubles did not 
appear for several weeks, they said, but 
were certain to come sooner or later. 
And they did, so I shell the corn before 
grinding and have a lot of cobs to burn. 
Cobs make hot fires, and easily pay for 
the shelling. Is it a waste of feed to 
shell corn and burn the cobs? I do not 
think so, and I can show that I am right. 
One bushel of 68 pounds of corn and cob 
meal contains 3.08 pounds protein and 
an energy value of 48.99 therms, while 
a bushel of meal from shelled corn 
weighing 56 pounds contains 3.80 pounds 
of protein and 49.75 therms of energy. 
So there is a neat margin in favor of 
the plain meal. These figures are for 
bushels by weight, are taken from Farm¬ 
ers’ Bulletin No. 346, and are for di¬ 
gestible protein and net energy values. 
After changing from the cob meal to 
the plain meal the steers soon become 
all right again. The only advantage in 
using corn and cob meal is that it is 
more bulky than plain meal, a fact that 
is of but little importance when hay 
and fodder are eaten by the cattle. The 
bad effect of the corn and cob meal is 
undoubtedly due to the sharp, hard parts 
of the cobs not being thoroughly pulver¬ 
ized in grinding. To make the cob 
particles fine by grinding is too expen¬ 
sive. Before the ears are dry enough to 
shell readily the cobs do not seem to be 
injurious to cattle, but later, portions 
of the cobs take on a flinty hardness re¬ 
sembling the shells of walnuts. Corn 
and cob meal weighs 38 pounds to the 
measured bushel and a measured bushel 
of plain meal about 50 pounds. Shelled 
corn increases in bulk about one-sixth 
by grinding, so that one must allow for 
this when feeding by measure. Also, it 
is well to remember that all ordinary 
tin vessels are rated by fluid measure, 
and that a bushel holds 32 quarts dry 
measure and about 38 quarts fluid meas¬ 
ure. 
The expense for grinding shelled corn 
as compared with ear corn is about the 
same bulk for bulk; in other words, it 
costs as much to grind 34 pounds of ears 
as it does to grind 56 pounds of shelled 
corn. I find that it costs about one 
cent per bushel for gasoline to grind 
shelled corn and two cents per bushel 
of ear corn, 68 pounds. In other words, 
my two-horse power engine will grind 
80 bushels in 10 hours and con¬ 
sume five gallons of gasoline at 15 cents 
per gallon. Running on coal oil the 
cost would be 50 cents per day. I 
would like to get reports from those 
who are using gasoline engine on steady 
work requiring about all the power the 
engine is capable of developing, as to 
the quantity of gasoline actually used 
per horse power per hour. Put an even 
gallon of gasoline in the tank and keep 
an account of the number of bushels 
of feed ground or the number of hours 
the engine runs. Give the kind of en¬ 
gine, whether two-cycle or four-cycle, 
the horse power it is rated for and the 
kind of work done and the amount. 
Such reports should prove interesting 
and be of value to those in need of 
power. w. E. duckwaix. 
Ohio. 
The Frosted Bit.— The comparison 
M. E. M. makes on page 1190 of what 
takes place, in a horse’s mouth when a 
frosty bit is placed in it is true and a 
pood illustration, but it is not half 
strong enough. As an exact and very 
fitting one the writer once saw a small 
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