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seed, but he bought cracked corn cobs and mixed the cottonseed 

 with it. It distended the cottonseed so that there was no indi- 

 gestion, and no evil results. It is on the same principle that 

 corn and cob meal apparently is better than clear corn meal. 

 I do not mention that as advocating the feeding of that much 

 cottonseed. I should not be afraid to feed two pounds a day, 

 in two feeds, but I would rather mix it with bran. 



Dr. Smead. I am going to tell you frankly that the State of 

 Maine, I think, is feeding more cottonseed than any other state 

 in the Union. And I am actually having more inquiries from 

 the State of Maine than any other state. It is the evil effect of 

 feeding cottonseed. It is not the quantity altogether, it is the 

 method. If the cottonseed is to be fed with the timothy hay 

 and the roughage, it can be fed only in small quantities without 

 evil results. My advice is to mix it with bran and not feed it 

 all at once. Feed it in two or three feeds and feed it with ensi- 

 lage when you can. There is only one safe way, in my judg- 

 ment, to feed cottonseed and that is to feed it with some succu- 

 lent food, and then mix it with some wheat bran and a little 

 quantity of linseed. Cottonseed is constipating. While it is 

 a great milk producer it produces other troubles unless it is fed 

 judiciously. 



Ques. I would like to have Prof. Gowell tell us about his 

 method of ventilating by cloth screens. 



Prof. GowELL. I have constructed this fall a little house lOO 

 feet long. I dug into the ground three feet and scooped the 

 earth out on one side, and built the house about three feet into 

 the ground and three feet above the ground banked up. That 

 gives a warm basement. The soil is sandy and well drained. 

 The front has cloth curtains, five of them in a hundred feet, 

 12 feet long and three feet wide. Sixty feet of that building 

 is open through the day to let the pure air in to the birds. They 

 are practically in the out-of-door, pure air, but they are sheltered 

 and protected. When the weather is too rough the curtains 

 are shut down and still more or less air is passing through them. 



I believe that sometime we are going to construct a great 

 many buildings of that kind for the carrying of our cows or 

 young stock through the winter; buildings where the front is 

 open and protected from the roughest weather by a cotton cloth. 



