DAIRY MEETING. 121 



REMARKS OF CHAS. D. WOODS. 



It certainly gives me great pleasure to look the Maine dairy- 

 men in the face again. I have been much interested in the dis- 

 cussion of the afternoon, because it is a very vital question, and, 

 as those of you who are producing milk have been learning from 

 your experience, it is an increasingly important question. Not 

 only the question of the price of purchased grains, but where the 

 purchased grains are to come from, especially these by-products 

 that we have been using, is going to be more and more embar- 

 rassing each year. I have very great hopes that one class of 

 feeds may be increased. If in running this machinery that is on 

 exhibition here we get to using alcohol instead of gasoline, we 

 shall make it from corn, and that will throw upon the market 

 a large amount of distillers' grains, which are practically gluten 

 feed. The only hope that I can see that we have in the future 

 is that these by-products that we have been using so liberally 

 in the past will be reduced in price. I want to say amen to 

 everything that has been said here about growing grain, grass 

 and clover on the home farm. There is a large portion of our 

 State in which corn can be grown. We are pretty near the 

 northern limit of the corn crop at Orono, and we have not failed 

 to make silage of pretty good quality in any of the ten years I 

 have been there, so I think we can safely count upon that quite 

 largely in all of the section of the State which lies south of this 

 point, or south of W'aterville. 



There are two things that I would like to say during this 

 Conference, and I think this is as good a time as any to say 

 them. 



First, after we have grown all of the home feeds that we can, 

 many of us will still feel that we must purchase concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuffs, and I want to make the appeal that I 

 have made to you so many times. I have never written a feeding 

 stuff inspection bulletin but I have tried to bring out this point : 

 When you go to a store to supplement the home grown feeds, 

 you go to buy one constituent only, and that is protein. You 

 do not go there to buy so many pounds of grain. If you have 

 been managing your farm at all as you ought to manage it, you 

 have grown all the carbohydrates that you need. And when 

 you come to supplement the feeds, you must buy feeds rich in 



