Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
Just briefly I'd like to give you the observational work that we have
done with honeylocust. For mules in a feeding test we fed a team of
mules for 30 days nothing but honeylocust and hay, and these mules were
in fine shape when they came out at the end of the feeding test. You say
that's an awfully short feeding test. It is, but we had very few pods.
Then for cows I have gone into it more extensively. I have a cow myself,
and I have fed that cow honeylocust pods and that was all the grain she
had through the winter months, and got excellent milk production. You
get excellent milk flavor from these pods and an increase in milk
production.
A very interesting thing happened. I went out in the community to gather
pods from the wild trees for a feeding test, and there was a lady who
owned a farm pretty close to our project. I went over and talked with
her about getting the pods from her trees to feed to my cows for feeding
tests, and it was O. K. But when I left she got to thinking the thing
over, and she decided that if honeylocust pods were good for my cow they
would be good for her cow! So I went back in a few days' time--the pods
weren't mature when I went the first time. I went back in a few days and
I didn't ask the lady if I could get the pods, I just stopped on the
side of the road and we put a darky up in the tree to shake the pods
off. And we saw a little darky coming across the field, just a streak.
He said, "Missus says come over to the house." I went over there, and
she was just a little bit embarrassed, but she said, "Mr. Moore, I have
decided if honeylocust was good for the goose it was good for the
gander, so I have been feeding honeylocust to my cows." And she went on
with that story and said that she had been selling milk to a fraternity
over in town, and the boys at the fraternity, after she had fed the cows
honeylocust for a week or two, asked her what had happened to her milk,
and she told them--she said honestly she was afraid she was going to
lose the trade, she thought something bad was wrong with it. She told
them, that so far as she knew there wasn't anything. They said, "Have
you done anything to it?" "No, we haven't." They said, "Well, it's the
best milk we have ever had, and we can tell the difference in the
taste." And then she told them what she had done. She wouldn't tell them
before.
Now, we have had story after story coming to us to corroborate that.
Now, I have never seen with my cow any difference in milk flavor, either
good or bad, but my wife can definitely tell, and she is very particular
about her butter, because she likes to sell that. I can quit feeding
honeylocust a few days, and my wife will say, "How come you quit feeding
honeylocust to the cow?" It is that definite.
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