. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Dried Fruits as Stock Feed 420 California Fruits be about $ At the market price of oat hay, the figure for fresh prunes should be nearly $3 per ton. The dried fruits naturally rank far above the fresh material as stock feed. Of the dried fruits represented in the table, raisins lead in food value; containing one and one- fourth to one and one-half times the nutritive ingredients of alfalfa and oat hays, respec- tively; 100 pounds of the fruit being prac- tically equal to the same quantity of grain, but to only eighty-two and fifty-n
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Dried Fruits as Stock Feed 420 California Fruits be about $ At the market price of oat hay, the figure for fresh prunes should be nearly $3 per ton. The dried fruits naturally rank far above the fresh material as stock feed. Of the dried fruits represented in the table, raisins lead in food value; containing one and one- fourth to one and one-half times the nutritive ingredients of alfalfa and oat hays, respec- tively; 100 pounds of the fruit being prac- tically equal to the same quantity of grain, but to only eighty-two and fifty-nine pounds respectively of rice bran and cotton-seed meal. Dried apricots rank slightly lower than raisins, because they contain more water. Apricots are, however, of equal value as a feeding stuff with wheat bran and almond hulls about half as much as alfalfa hay, bran or middings. Prune-fed or raisin-fed pork is indeed an accomplished fact in California. As to the acceptability of the fruit diet to the hog what could be more pertinent and more fitting appendix to this treatise than this little tale? It is stated that Mr. Balaam, of Farmersville, used to have a pet pig that ran under the fig trees near the house. When the fruit began to drop, he ate figs and rested in the shade until he finally grew too fat to move about to gather the sweet morsels. By this time his owner became so much interested in the case as to carry him his regular figs three times daily. Gradually he grew so fat that his eyes closed entirely and he was blind and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wickson, Edward James, 1848- [from old catalog]. San Francisco, The Pacific rural press
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