Show CROPPING up CORN FODDER t do X not t it tl the N kelt at C cow biu the fostler I 1 baynot may not bo be called orthodox in my belief but it if fed in email small quan quantities titi es at a time BO so that it will be eaten up clean I 1 doubt it cutting dry corn fodder pays I 1 have cut corn fodder and fed it whole by way of comparison and when the latter was fed in ja email small amounts at a time I 1 could not see tho gain in ill A wa way y that showed any return for formy my labor I 1 found ho wever that I 1 could co uld induce a cow to eat e at more stalks up clean at a fee feeding ding by cutting cuttin them in i inch lengths but on dividing the uncut stalks that would depre represent sent the cut fodder into tw two 0 feeds the tile a amount m t rejected was very email small I 1 found it a better vt way ay to cut up what was left of the rejected stalks put a litile meal ineal upon them and feed them now and then as it luncheon and so I 1 am cutting nine tenths of 0 the fodder one of tho tile chief reasons why so 60 much fodder fodde r is wasted in feeding stalks out of doors and also v here where the tile mangers aro are crowded with fodder when feeding in tile barn is the tile mussing of it by the next cow it is nearly impossible to get a cow to touch an ear of co corn rn that has even momentarily been in another cows im mouth louth and I 1 have noticed that the same was nearly tho the cao when stalks are fed in tho the manger so so when I 1 fed stalks before tha the hiloa were built builta I 1 put partitions in the manners ners so that two cows could eat together and it if about so much was fed ed the stalks were eaten up clean one winter I 1 tried cutting stalks stalk for two cows after feeding g them all the whole stalks they would eat up clean 1 fed them all the cut stalks they could cons consume urno in the same way without changing the grain ration and after a weeks trial trim they had not increased the yield of milk an ounce and after this 1 I let them cut their own stalks in cooking ot or soaking the stalks I 1 have had no ex elpe nence re ee nor br ao to I 1 thal recotr that t allows h that tl h at any experiment after a the t h e natural juices have been dried out 0 at of 0 a plant plan t of steaming steam 09 gg any plan P an cooking cok in or kin showed soaking so a 9 has h wed better t feeding fill d results ih ailts lilts the slower 1 0 ter than t does mastication a of the t 43 food f in d a dry state ry adding dd 9 the water as drink to few univ hours later a that cutting cuttill food adds to its feeding value is doubtful beyond tins this the induces no an animal imal to cat more and au reject less where dry stalks are readily consumed and very little Is loft left my vote would bo be against cutting if the battlo ca we will reject moro thaud per cent of the food if it bright and good I 1 would then teen bay say that possibly it might mig bt pay to rig up a power cutter john gould in rural new yorker |