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CORN AND COB FOR HORSES. 
There is now a machine in this section 
for grinding corn, cob and husks together. 
Do you know of any experiments having 
been made with this feed for horses and 
colts? If so, what were the results? Do 
you know of any experiments having been 
made with corn and cob meal compared 
with corn or cornineal for horses? 
North Carolina. d. j. l. 
There are no records so far as I 
know of experiments in feeding ground 
corn, cob and husk to horses. This ma¬ 
terial has, however, been fed to cattle 
with success, the degree of success de¬ 
pending upon the degree of fineness 
with which the material is ground. In 
many cases material has been ground so 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
with a liberal sprinkling of corn and 
oatmeal on the leaves while wet with 
dew could they be induced to eat it, and 
to aggravate the matter, one of my 
agricultural papers was giving an illus¬ 
tration of a field of rape where the hogs 
were conducting themselves in a satis¬ 
factory manner. Of course the former 
method of feeding was continued even 
while a small patch of Canada peas was 
being fed. Meanwhile early windfall 
apples were carefully utilized for feed¬ 
ing; later a light feeding of corn grown 
on the farm was added, also a quantity 
of slightly frozen potatoes were boiled 
with the beans, but the food most relied 
coarse that it has not been a desirable u P° n during the entire feeding process 
material for feeding cattle. 
K. B. MUMFORD. 
Mo. Experiment Station. 
I have never had experience in the 
feeding of corn and cob meal ground 
with husk on, nor do I know of any ex¬ 
periments conducted with this feed. I 
believe the Iowa Experiment Station 
has fed corn and cob meal to horses 
with satisfactory results, but I do not 
was the boiled beans. 
In presenting the foregoing it is main¬ 
ly to demonstrate that first-class and 
well-fattened pork can be profitably pro¬ 
duced in a rapid and inexpensive man¬ 
ner, even during this period of high- 
priced feeding products, and the absence 
of well-filled corncribs that naturally 
gladden the heart of every farmer. But 
there are other essentials for success 
that should not be omitted in this con- 
know of any reports given of their 
work. There is but little if any feeding nectlon : rc S ulant > r 111 fecdl ”S alld ab « Ild ’ 
value in cobs and the husk, most of it anceof !t ’ plenty of water ’ warm - dry 
being indigestible crude fiber. There 
are two objections to whole corn or 
cornmeal as a horse feed. First, it is a 
highly carbonaceous feed, and does not 
furnish enough protein. Second, there 
is very little crude fiber in corn, conse¬ 
quently it is too much of a concentrated 
feed to be fed in large quantities with¬ 
out mixing it with something else. For 
this reason, I think there is some ad¬ 
vantage in feeding corn and cob meal, 
as the cob furnishes crude fiber and 
lightens up the feed, so that it is more 
readily acted upon by the digestive 
juices, hence not so likely to produce 
colic. I prefer mixing cornmeal with 
chaffed hay rather than feeding the corn 
and cob meal, - as the chaffed hay fur¬ 
nishes the necessary crude fiber, and it 
is also more digestible, r. c. obrecht. 
Illinois Experiment Station. 
and well-ventilated sleeping quarters; 
always aiming to feed more than just a 
maintenance ration, and never if possi¬ 
ble, to allow them to squeal for their 
food from start to finish. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. irving d. cook. 
PROFITABLE PORK IN WESTERN N. Y. 
t - -• ♦ • r • - ' 
Recently I received account of sales 
of two. sows and 16 of their pigs in the 
Buffalo market, . amounting to $394132, 
exclusive of two reserved for breeding _ ,, T7 . 
• , ... ri r . Cornell Umversitv. 
purposes, and while considering the fact ^ _ _ , . 
that these hogs were fitted for market 
SHREDDED CORN FODDER. 
Some of our neighbors are enthusiastic 
over. tlie alleged success in feeding cows, 
of silage composed of the shredded stover, 
run in tlie silo with a stream of water. They 
claim it: is almost equal to silage made 
of .whole corn. Wo hardly think you can 
fool a cow, but would like to know. e. e. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
We never have had any experience 
with keeping shredded cornstalks in 
silos with . the addition of water. I 
know that this thing has been attempted 
more or less not only with cornstalks, 
but with corn that' has been cut too ripe 
and dry in Fall for putting into the 
silo. Sometimes it seems to be quite 
successful, other times it is not nearly 
so successful. The amount of water and 
fodder needs to be 'balanced very care¬ 
fully, or it. will be too wet and soggy 
on the one hand, or too likely to mold 
on the other. h. ii. wing. 
different from the old-time method of 
corn feeding once so prevalent in this 
locality and much of the West, it is as¬ 
sumed that others may be interested to 
know how these pigs at the age of 231 
days attained the weight of 233 pounds 
each, and the sows 445 each, as weighed 
in the above market. Many years ago 
when the production of pork here in 
Western New York was attended with 
corn growing for fattening purposes, it 
was a comparatively simple matter to 
shovel the amount of corn required for 
a feeding. But since the advent of the 
silo the conditions with many of us are 
entirely different, for at the present 
time, nearly or quite all of our corn is 
converted into silage; hence the limited 
amount of pork produced for market 
purposes. Consequently those of us in¬ 
clined to continue our efforts in this di¬ 
rection have been obliged to resort to 
other methods. 
On April 16 and 18 last, when the two 
sows ireferred to farrowed their 18 
pigs, there was' no “corn in the shock” 
nor in the crib. For a time sour milk, 
dish water and middlings constituted 
their regular ration; later, cull beans 
boiled, with a light quantity of corn and 
oatmeal added as a relish, was their main 
food. Great reliance had been placed 
on a patch of rape that I had seen highly 
recommended for a rapid growth of 
swine, which in due time was considered 
at the right stage for producing wonders 
in pork production, but to my great sur¬ 
prise and disappointment they utterly 
refused to test its wonderful fattening 
qualities; neither after several days trial 
Two years ago while connected with 
the Vermont Experiment Station we 
silaged five or six acres of corn stover. 
The fodder was very dry, and an at¬ 
tempt was made to put as much water 
into the silo in connection with the dry 
fodder so as to bring it up in water 
content equal to that in normal silage. 
The fodder was placed in the silo about 
the first of January, and we commenced 
to feed from it at once, the fodder last¬ 
ing six or eight weeks. This fodder 
was fed once a day in amount equal 
to that which had formerly been fed of 
silage. The fodder kept fairly well, and 
was relished by all the animals of the 
herd, 60 cows in number. During the 
time when this fodder was fed there 
was no apparent diminution of the milk 
flow in excess of the normal shrinkage. 
We judged, therefore, that it was equal 
to silage pound for pound. 
C. L. BEACH. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
Hornless Catti.e.— We are sometimes 
asked whether (lie polled or hornless cattle 
of various breeds are gaining in numbers. 
The following from “The Breeder’s Ga¬ 
zette” is a good answer: 
“Significant progress has been made dur¬ 
ing 1 lte past 10 years in establishing polled 
types of horned breeds of cattle. Polled 
Durhams, polled Herefords and polled Jer¬ 
seys represent the most notable achieve¬ 
ments in this line of breeding. Beginning 
with “sports.” or naturally hornless ani¬ 
mals. the polled character has been fixed in 
these three types to an extent which insures 
its reproduction in an overwhelming ma¬ 
jority of matings. Polled blood has become 
so potent that, although obtained through 
“sports” from breeds with horns, its poll¬ 
ing efficiency is thoroughly dependable, even 
in cases where the elimination of horns is 
met with stubborn inherent opposition. A 
strong and growing demand for polled types 
of horned breeds is expressing itself in the 
operations of farmers, feeders and breed¬ 
ers. Those who take the purely practical 
view of horns, considering them useless and 
expensive physically to remove, welcome the 
hornless types as satisfactory substitutes. 
Polled bulls have been put to work in many 
horned herds, and hornless females of the 
same breeding are aiding them iu fixing the 
polled character. On the whole, the move¬ 
ment which seeks gradually to dehorn the 
races of horned cattle is of growing strength 
and popularity.” 
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