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will take he will take more than he can utilize. I tell you, 

 farmers, the whole science of feeding in the west has got to be 

 revolutionized inside of the next few years. The feeders can- 

 not stand it. They cannot make beef at present prices by feed- 

 ing the amount of corn per day that they are giving. Some are 

 feeding half a bushel. 



Mr. HoYT. You think they are wasting a good deal of 

 corn? 



Prof. Shaw. I know they are. I have told them so. 



A Member. I would like to inquire as to the best way of 

 feeding a grain ration ; whether it should be fed dry or moist. 



Prof. Shaw. I do not think that it makes any practical 

 difference, provided you can get the animals to consume enough 

 rough food. As you can see, some kinds of food are not as 

 palatable as you would like, but you want to get the animal to 

 take that rough food, and naturally sprinkle meal over it, and 

 the animal will consume more of such rough food or cheap 

 food. I tell you, farmers, it is worthy of the most profound 

 study to get our animals to take all the rough food that we 

 can get them to take, and take as little grain or meal as they 

 will do well on. That is where the profit lies. Now if I was 

 feeding grain along with ensilage, I would put the ensilage in 

 the manger and spread a little meal over it, letting the cattle do 

 the mixing. If I was feeding coarse hay or straw, of which 

 animals will consume a certain amount, I think I would mix 

 the meal with the hay and straw. 



I would like to ask, Mr. Chairman, if the dairymen of Con- 

 necticut who are making butter, grow many swine? How is 

 it, farmers? 



Secretary Brown. I can answer for my section, and I be- 

 lieve in the sections where we have creameries, the skim milk 

 is taken and fed either to calves or pigs and quite a good deal 

 of pork is made. 



Prof. Shaw. I am glad to hear that. That, of course, is 

 as it ought to be. I put the question with this in my mind. 



