The 1911 book quotes "corn (grain)" as being "used very extensively" for dairy cows, and lists it separately from "corn and cob meal" and "ground corn, cob, and shuck meal"? This does not sound like the grass.<p>However, it does say that the "unhusked ear" broken from the stalk is the most popular feed in the West for fattening cattle (those that are eaten) and "Corn Meal" is favored in the East.