A FARM GRINDING MILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 12

A FARM GRINDING MILL.

The use of a grinding mill on the farm constitutes an economy quite apart from the household. Peas, barley, sorghum, and maize may ho ground as well as wheat end oats, «md the produce utilised for the feeding of farm stock. If the farm is to I be kept free from oats in the crops it •tv-ill be n<x:essary to feed wheaten hay and crushed cits to the working horses. This is « good working ration that is much reliished. By the use of crushed oats or maize, a smaller amount of chaff may kg fed—which represents another advantage, for a horse's stomach is small, and the'animal cannot make use of roughage as a cow can, and does not need a very bulky ration. The product of the grindin" mill is of significance in the feeding of pigs and poultry, too. Any sort of' wheat is good feed for this class of stock,, but for egg production hens will do far better on hard grain, which contains more albumen-forming material than soft grain. In the case or pigs it is sometimes supposed that boiled whole wheat is a satisfactory ration, but the pig's anatomy is not unlike our own, and anybody who has tried boiled whole wheat for a breakfast dish is aware that to masticate it is like chewing pellets of rubber. The pig eats bis breakfast very quickly, and the boiled wheat does him very little cood when bolted with the swill of the trough. "-i If ground, however, wheat is a satisfactory feed, cither boiled or raw. Of the value of crushed oats as a milk-pro-ducing ration for com ti> is kudly. necessary to speak. ■ - .