[AT] Rock Falls, IL

[Charlie V]

Guess I should have said Vaughn
  It can be a little hard for me to follow on the small phone format.

On Dec 20, 2016 4:28 PM, "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a memory, Darrell.  When I was in grade school there was a man
> who lived in the housr next to the school property who owned a feed
> grinding or milling truck.  I remember as a kid asking my father what that
> big truck was for.  As I sit here I can visualize the man, the truck, and
> the house he owned.    Took a few minutes to remember his name, but it came
> to me.  Mr. Studeman.  That was around 1950 here in NY.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Dec 20, 2016 4:00 PM, "Vaughn Miller" <vemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Growing up in PA, feed ground from whole ear corn was know as "chop" and
>> was generally fed to beef cattle.  There was a mobile mill truck that
>> would
>> come around to grind feed.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Darrell Ratliff <dbigdog at columbus.rr.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > For what it’s worth growing up in central Ohio, all the cattle feed we
>> > ground included ear corn with the cobs included in the mix.  This was
>> fed
>> > to both the dairy herd and the Herefords we raised for meat.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: rlgoss at twc.com
>> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 3:28 PM
>> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> > Subject: Re: [AT] Rock Falls, IL
>> >
>> > Humm.  That's a new one for me, Herb.  I've not heard of purposely
>> > grinding corn ON THE COB before.  I guess there was always too much need
>> > for corn cobs in the outhouse or chicken house.  Is this the equivalent
>> of
>> > adding melamine to dog food as the Chinese want to do?
>> >
>> > Larry
>> > ---- Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > > My Dad fattened four dozen yearlings every fall/winter for several
>> > decades;
>> > his preference (also) was corn ground on the cob, with silage, and
>> alfalfa
>> > or hay.  Opinion is he enjoyed that more than grain farming (less
>> dependent
>> > on weather).
>> > Herb(GA)
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: John Slavin
>> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:21 PM
>> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> > Subject: Re: [AT] Rock Falls, IL
>> > Sort of off topic for this, but my brother-in-law has a new idea pull
>> type
>> > 2
>> > row NARROW corn picker.  Nearly all of our corn is shelled, but he
>> usually
>> > leaves 5 acres or so to pick in the ear.  We still have a grinder-mixer
>> and
>> > run the ear corn through it.  I’m still of the belief that corn ground
>> on
>> > the cob makes the best feed with the roughage in it in the form of the
>> cob,
>> > particularly for cattle that aren't destined for the feedlot. Even for
>> > cattle that will eventually go to the feedlot, it makes good feed for
>> when
>> > they’re first weaned and getting used to corn going through their
>> digestive
>> > system.  2 row NARROW pickers must be kinda rare.  I’ve not seen many of
>> > them.  That would work nice behind the M!
>> > John Slavin
>> >
>> >
>> >
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