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conception of the right way of feeding apples has ever obtained gen- 
eral credence among us. Analysis shows that apples are extraordi- 
narily poor in respect to nitrogenous constituents, and indicates clearly 
that they should be fed out in conjunction with some highly nitrogen- 
ized food, such as peas or flesh, for example, as has been set forth on 
page 567 of volume 1 of this Bulletin. But, in point of fact, the 
system there described of feeding swine with apples and mixed peas 
and oats, was successfully practised forty years ago, here in New 
England, by several different farmers. -Moreover, many farmers 
have found their advantage in using apples with sour milk and swill, 
which are both highly nitrogenized substances.* Bran, also, which 
contains a tolerably large proportion of nitrogen, has been used with 
advantage in conjunction with apples. Indeed, there is good reason 
for believing that the use of apples for feeding hogs would have 
become a very common practice if these original correct methods of 
using the fruit could but have been once generally tried or believed in. 
But when corn-meal and cob-meal came to be substituted for the peas, 
the swill, and the bran, it is not surprising that the apple mixture 
quickly fell into disrepute. There can be little question that windfall 
apples could be fed to hogs with profit in conjunction with the highly 
nitrogenous meat scraps, cracklings, or greaves, which are left as a 
residual product in the rendering of tallow by the chandlers. Several 
instances of the successful use of this flesh scrap for feeding hogs, 
both by itself and in conjunction with cob-meal, have been reported.T 
The thought suggests itself, in this connection, that the old Scotch 
and English system of feeding hogs with potatoes, plus pea-meal, or 
the meal of mixed peas and oats, was, chemically speaking, preferable 
to the use of potatoes with corn-meal or cob-meal, as was formerly the 
custom hereabouts. 
The use of apples for feeding neat-cattle, in conjunction with bog- 
meadow hay or other rough forage, and oil-cake (cotton-seed meal), 
could hardly fail to be advantageous; and the pomace from cider- 
mills, also, as was said in a previous article, has unquestionably con- 
siderable value as cattle food. It is to be noted, withal, that, in 
* Compare (for pea meal) ‘“‘ New England Farmer,” 1834, 18. pp. 100, 316; 
1835, 14. 29; 1838, 16. 205; (for swill, sour milk, &c.,) 1826, 5. 82; 1833, 12, 
pp. 172, 203; 1863, 15. 70. 
+ Compare ‘New England Farmer,” 1835, 14. 83, and 1863, 15. 191. 
