Show FEEDING CORN FODDER alio value greatly by the stalk Th rouel a cutting machine it is tho general practice ill nearly all the great corn growing states after busking or snapping tho corn to tam the steel fields to forage from the stalia thero is no doubt by thia method of feeding that an immerso quantity of food material ia wasted partly bv the laggo quantity of stalks which remain uneaten and partly by the destruction of nutritive matter through rain and frost every day of exposure tends to decrease the value of the fodder by destroying the sugar and other soluble parts which give to the plant its flavor and palatability one great reason why the value of well cured cornstalks from which tho ears have been husked for feeding pur posea has not been more generally recognized is that tho stalks anro bulky and until tho advent of cutting machinery havo been difficult to handle also explains prairie farmer farmers not understanding der standing how to feed stalks to the best advantage bavo found that there was a largo amount of waste in experiments at the wisconsin station it was shown that something liko 30 per cent of tho cornstalks can bo saved by cutting them that the entire stalk will be oaten in riper corn fed together with whatever nubbins were was only a waste of 9 per cent with the uncut fodder with cornstalks valued at 4 a ton it was demonstrated that they are worth about per ton when and it was seen that abo advance in value will quickly pay for a good sized cutting machine in the winter season banners fan ners as a rule leave but little to do with their horses and these can then bo utilized in the cutting of fodder it has been suggested that the larger sized cutting machines tiro much more economical than tho hand machine in other experiments it wua fondd that by putting the fodder through a cutter 36 per cent was saved in tho first trial and 31 per cent in the second the difference in the percentage being duo to tho variety of corn used in trial no 1 the uneaten fodder was 14 per cent of the total fed whilo abo gain by cutting was sa per cent in trial no 2 the nn eaten stalks were 80 per cent of the total fed while abo pain by cutting was 31 per cent the fodder crop when turned into butter results tho average of four trials showed that it required 2450 pounds of corn fodder cut fine together with of bran and pounds of cammeal com meal to make pounds of butter ordinarily nn acre of fodder corn will yield about pounds hanco wo find that we would havo enough fodder on an acre of land for about pounds of butter to go with this fodder in producing this pounds of butter wo would need pounds of bran and pounds of cammeal com meal now let our readers take the cost of bran and cammeal at their respective points and adding this cost to the fodder fed they can easl ay determine tho of the fodder |