Apple Pomace
Makes Good Feed
For Beef Cattle
Beef animals may not need an
apple a day to keep healthy But
hcet heifers on test recently put
on weight when they aie pressed
apple cores, stems, and peelings
as an experimental roughage in
winter rations.
Cooperative research by the
V mginia Agricultural Experiment
Station and USDA’s Beef Cattle
Research Station at Front Royal,
Va, showed that the pomace
as the apple leftovers are called
- is every bit as nutritious as
Kically.grown feedstuffs And the
animals eating it not only thrived
but gained more than animals eat
mg the locally grown feed
This is good news to Virginia's
apple growers, who annually pro
duce several thousand tons of
pomace in processing apples for
cider At one time, a maiket for
apple pomace existed in the pre
serve industry, which extracted
pectin for jams and jellies
BUT THIS MARKET has shift
cd to citrus That prompted re
searchers to investigate nearby
cattle feeding as a possible mar
ket for pomace Feeding tests
were set up to see how apple
pomace compared with locally
grown roughage for wintering cat
tie
Animal husbandman B M Pn
ode, of ARS. and M J Bums, of
the state station (now with ARS),
fed two types of apple pomace to
cattle having access to sparse
winter forage. One type was wet
containing 70 per cent moisture
The other was dry, derived from
the wet pomace by partial dehy
dration with steam heat to a mois
ture content of about 4 per cen*
The wet pomace was stored in a
covered shed with no packing or
pieservative. Even under these
conditions, the sugar-rich pomace
remained nutritious, palatable,
and unspoiled
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UNBRED SHORTHORN year
ling heiters gained 115 pounds in
106 days 1 09 pounds daily
on self-fed dry apple pomace and
a pound of cottonseed cake daily
For compaiison, a sorgo-Sudan
grass soybean silage and .75
pound of cottonseed cake were
fed per day to some other heifers
during the same testing period
They gained only 32 pounds, or 3
pound daily
Animals on apple pomace ate
12 3 pounds oi the by-product
daily, while the <ther heifers ate
43 7 pounds of the mixed silage
The animals on apple pomace ale
an average of a pound more dry
matter daily than those fed sil
age. This undoubtedly accounts
foi part of the greater gain
Heifers within each group gain
ed uniformly, showing that com
netition for feed was low under
self-feeding Animals fed apple
pomace were in much bettei con
dition at the end of the tests than
those on mixed silage
Pregnant cows were also fed ap
ple pomace, but in fixed amounts.
The pomace was fed to the am
mals with, cottonseed cake and
hay, or cottonseed cake alone
This gave as good or better re
suits than mixed alfalfa-barley sil
age fed with cottonseed cake and
hay or cotton seed alone
ALL PREGNANT COWS lost
weight during tests as a result of
calving, suckling, and use of wmt
enng rations But cows lost
about the same (and their calves
gained about the same) as groups
fed other roughage
Animals stayed thrifty despite
weight losses In each group on
’united rations, some cows lost
much more weight than others
The scientists think this was due
to competition for the limited
feed supply resulting from na
tuial variations in aggressiveness
among animals
There was no evidence of toxi
city in any of the pomace rations
But processors should be alert
against hardware and foreign ma
terials.
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Q I live in a village in Penn
sylvania I own eight acres of
ground and would like to dig a
dam or pond If anyone got
drowned in it, could I be sued
for damages 1 ’ G M
A Yes, even though you have
fenced in your pond and have
pioperly posted it, as a pond
owner, under certain circum
stances, you can be held legally
liable for injuries or death in the
pond For this reason it would
certainly be advisable to carry
comprehensive liability insurance
for protection fiom financial loss
should such accidents happen
Besides the usk of being legal
ly liable for injuries or death of
Researchers feel that the re
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Q If a man deserts his fam
ily, leaving many unpaid bills,
and goes to another country is
it possible that he can be made
to come back and support his
children and pay the bills’ II so,
how’ L T
A The Uniform Enforcement
ot Support Law, as m effect in
Pennsylvania, can be used to en
force an obligation of support
only in a State, territory or pos
session of the United States and
the District of Columbia Theie
appears to be no way in which a
man can be brought back from
a foreign country for the purpose
of making him support his fam
ily
One possibility ot enforcing the
man’s obligation to support his
family might be to issue execu
tion against property which the
man might own in this country,
oi to attach any pension or in
surance, etc, to which the man
might be entitled in this countiy
Q In an estate left to nieces
and nephews what happens to the
share of a deceased one’ Does the
wife get it or daughters of the
deceased one’ What happens in
the case of a house left unsettled
but occupied by a member of said
estate, the house taxes are paid
by the occupant and property
listed in occupant’s name I do
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not know it the deed to the
house has been changed If it has
could occupant have done it with
out remaining heirs signing off
or without their knowledge of
said transaction 9 I W
A Undei the Wills Act ol
1947 the shaic would go to the
daughters of the deceased nep
hew unless the uncle died with
a wife or issue surviving
One of the hens who occupies
the home could not sell it with
out the signatures of all the hens
unless he were also the executor
or administrator of the estate of
the decedent You should obtain
counsel to investigate the han
dling of this estate
Q How can a man go about
getting a diverse from a woman
who had four children and only
one is his 9 Does hs have to pa>
support for the four children
even though all are not his 9
A The first step in seeking to
obtain a divorce from a wife who
is allegedly guilty of adulterous
conduct during the marriage is
to see the advice of a lawyer as
to whether there are grounds for
divorce, and if there are grounds,
whether or not they can be
proven in court
As to the husband's dutj to
support children of whom he
claims he is not the father, the
law raises a strong presumption
that children born to a married
woman are legitimate Any effort
by the husband of the married
woman to avoid his obligation to
support such children bom to his
wife would have to be supported
by stiong and convincing evi
dence that he was not the father
of the children
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