[AT] Rock Falls, IL

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

We use to fatten calves with  corn ground on the cob.  Minerals were 
added to the mix. We used Shovel the ears out of the barn into a 
elevator into a 5 ton  truck, Haul it to the mill in town and haul back 
bagged feed.

I learned a lesson.  I took a cattle trailer to pick up the feed. I was 
about 16 at the time. They loaded the feed in the trailer and I got on 
the road going home.  At about 40 the trailer started to sway.  I could 
not control the truck.  Finally got it stopped in the ditch.  They had 
loaded all the corn behind the tandem axles and the feed was lifting the 
rear wheels off the ground.  I had to shift the load to the front to 
make it home.

Never again.  I always loaded the trailer my self or at least inspected 
the work before heading out on the road.

On 12/20/2016 2:54 PM, Vaughn Miller 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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