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Com Fodder And Cow Feed
Time was, when the leaves from
the old maple tree drifted against
the garden fence, and the cows
licked the ice at the edge of the
water trough, that we woke up to
the fact of winter. We simply
ignored the other signs, like wild
geese headed south, and rough
hands from the damp com husk
they were normal and necessary
events in the seasonal cycle. We
worried about whether there would
be enough hay and com fodder for
the winter though, so the cold
weather was really somewhere in
our thoughts, waiting for reality to
wake it up.
The last load of com was usually
shoveled off the two-horse wagon
during World Series week, if we
were lucky. If help was scarce or
too expensive, com harvest might
go into hunting season, making it
necessary to wear a red bandanna
on the hat, while husking com. The
old shotgun stayed handy in case
we surprised a bunny or a
pheasant hidden under a shock.
That took some of the sting out of
the tyranny of late harvest while
our city friends were enjoying the
hunt.
Mechanical corn pickers existed,
but were not yet considered cost
effective on our farm. Besides,
they made it impossible to harvest
the corn fodder, which we con
sidered necessary for winter feed.
Yes, I said feed, meaning cow feed.
Two haymows were filled with
hay. The west bay held the timothy
and clover mix and was ex
clusively for the six mules. The
limited alfalfa hay went into the
East bay over the cow stable.
Never enough to last the winter, it
had to be stretched out with corn
fodder.
While the silage from the old
Unadilla silo lasted, tiie cows filled
their rumen with corn silage, corn
fodder, and com chop, sup
plemented with a taste of alfalfa
and a little brewers grain on the
com chop. No wonder the critters
went wild when first turned loose
on spring pasture 1
Corn fodder could be fed either
whole or shredded. Whole corn
fodder, of which only the tasty
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leaves were eaten, ended up as
bedding and made miserable
forking from the gutter and
manure pile.
Whole stalks became woven into
an impossible matrix, and did
much to influence the language of
the times. Especially if the manure
had to be handled three times by
hand, once out of the pen or stable,
twice off the manure pile, and a
third time when spread by hand off
the dung board wagon. To say
nothing of trying to plow the stuff
under next spring. One earned his
virtue, if virtue can be measured
by muscle power and abstinence
from audible profanity.
So much time and energy was
spent on com fodder. First, cut
each and every single stalk by
hand with a sharp com hook, tie it
into shocks, throw it down and
husk the ears, stand it up again,
and finally haul the sheaves
somewhere near the ham and
build a neat stack. There was an
art in building a neat fodder stack,
topped off like a steep roof. Every
sheaf must slope outward from the
center of the stack. The final
thatch must stand upright and be
tight enough to turn water,' even
though it might be tom asunder
next week and hauled into the
barnfloor to be shredded for feed
and bedding.
The idea of shredding com
fodder came later, with the advent
of the Hercules gas engine and an
old Dellinger shredder. The cows
ate a little more of it after
shredding, and the manure was
infinitely easier to fork. It was true
progress in our time.
Today, chopping the stalks and
baling them for bedding is a far cry
from all that hand work. Even
leaving the fodder on the field has
greater merit than all that in
timacy with every blessed corn
stalk. Nature has a grand scheme
for recycling the nutrients while
binding the soil for another go
round next year. And Bless the day
that someone thought of ensiling
the whole corn stalk! For that is
the most efficient way of all to get
our money’s worth from corn.
AD ADC Board Approves 1
WILLIAMSPORT - The board
of directors of the American Dairy
Association and Dairy Council has
approved a 1987 budget of $11.4
million to be used for generic dairy
advertising and promotion
programs.
The board met in Syracuse,
N.Y., Nov. 18 to 19 in order to
review programs and finalize
budgets. The funds have been
allocated to promote dairy
products through a variety of
outlets.
Highlights of 1987 programs are
as follows;
MEDIA ADVERTISING - The
majority of ADADC’s budget will
be used to advertise dairy products
through television, radio and
outdoor billboards. The primary
product to be advertised is milk.
Ads for milk will continue to use
the successful theme, “Milk,
America’s Health Kick.” This
theme positions milk as a healthy
beverage, fitting consumers’
active lifestyles.
Additional advertising will also
be conducted for cheese, butter
and ice cream. ADADC will
cooperate with the National Dairy
Board and regional promotion
units around the country for the
development costs of all media
ads.
ADADC will continue using its
two newest media outlets in
supermarkets and ski resorts. For
the past year, they have been
purchasing in-store broadcasting
ads in supermarkets throughout
the area.
These ads are played over the
sound systems of supermarkets,
advertising products and
promoting special offers. ADADC
also purchases space through Ski-
View USA. This is a network of
billboards which are placed on ski
lift towers throughout the Nor
theast
NUTRITION EDUCATION -
Physicians will be a major target
for Dairy Council programming in
1987. '
Consumers recognize physicians
as sources of information about
health and disease, and are in
fluenced by their advice. During
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the coming year, Dairy Council
will increase their efforts to
provide physicians with nutrition
information. The end result should
be that physicians will counsel
patients to incorporate dairy foods
into their diets.
Another focus of Dairy Council
programming in 1987 will be to
introduce the redeveloped Food
. . . Your Choice program into area
schools.
Food . .. Your Choice is a
nutrition curriculum designed to
educate students on proper eating
habits. It was first introduced in
1977, and has been redeveloped to
meet changing educational needs.
PROMOTION - During 1987,
ADADC will continue its successful
Milk Set At $13.05 For October
NEW YORK - Dairy farmers
who supplied milk plants regulated
under the New York-New Jersey
marketing orders during October
1986 will be paid on the basis of a
uniform price of $13.05 per hun
dredweight, 28.1 cents per quart.
Market Administrator Thomas A.
Wilson also stated that the price
was $12.79 in September 1986 and
$12.40 in October 1986. The uniform
price is a marketwide weighted
average of the value of farm milk
used for fluid and manufactured
dairy products.
The seasonal incentive fund
returned a total of $4,173,880.98, or
$.464 per hundredweight, to the
dairy farmers’ uniform price for
October. This fund was generated
by reducing the uniform price paid
to producers during the high
production spring months.
A total of 15,281 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing Area with
899,335,456 pounds of milk during
October 1986. This was a decrease
of 6.5 percent, about 62 million
pounds, from last year. The gross
value to dairy farmers for milk
deliveries was $120,890,277.60. This
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987 Budget
school milk promotion in 3,000
schools throughout its tri-state
area. The promotion’s theme is
.“Turn It Up,” and it will provide
school cafeteria managers with
milk display material for use in the
cafeteria. Also included will be
milk storage tips and nutrition
information.
ADADC promotions will con
tinue to place dairy display
materials in supermarket dairy
aisles, and promotions will be
developed with major restaurant
chains. A dairy product public
relations campaign will also be
continued.
In addition, the board approved
continued funding for local dairy
princess programs.
included differentials required to
be paid to dairy farmers but not
voluntary premiums or deductions
authorized by the farmer.
Regulated milk dealers (han
dlers) used 416,296,100 pounds of
milk for Class 1,46.3 percent of the
total. This milk is used for fluid
milk products such as
homogenized, flavored, low test,
and skim milks. For October 1986,
handlers paid $13.88 per hun
dredweight, 29.8 cents per quart,
for Class I milk compared with
$13.33 a year ago.
The balance, 483,039,356 pounds
or 53.7 percent, was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$11.75 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For October 1986, there was
a price differential of 17.7 cents for
each one-tenth of one percent that
the milk tested above or below the
3.5 percent standard. '
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
York City.
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