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Mr. CoRB. It is an excellent feed. I have in mind some sheep 

 which were fed with it from Angnst till honsing time. The}' were 

 ill a pasture which afforded them about half feed enough, and they 

 were fed at first with a little cotton seed meal and then more and 

 more till they ate a pint apiece ; in the month of November thej'^ 

 were sold to the butcher and sent to Boston very fat. 



Sec. Gilbert. Before we adjourn I would like to "point a 

 moral." We have demonstrated one or two facts that I would like 

 to call 3'our attention to. The gentleman has spoken of the value 

 of cotton seed meal as milk making material. I stated to you that 

 to make rich milk you want a food rich in the albuminoids. Your 

 cotton seed meal, you see b}' the chart, excels all other foods in 

 albuminoid compounds. You see that practice is proving what the 

 figures iudicate. Corn meal, he says, in his experience, has to be 

 used with extreme care, and we find that corn meal, instead of con- 

 taining a large amount of albuminoids, contains onl}' a fraction over 

 eight per cent., while it is rich in heat forming compounds. 



In regard to feeding for profits, and its relation to fertility, if it 

 is practical to go out into the market and purchase feeds and feed 

 them to your stock, and have them return to you a profit, where is 

 the limit to a profitable business? You have got the world to draw 

 from for feed ; 3'our profits then are onl}- limited by the extent to 

 which you go into the business. I think we have demonstrated that, 

 under good management, this can be done and return to the feeder 

 a profit. 



In relation to the lessons of this forenoon, if 3'ou wish to increase 

 the fertility of your farm, just see 3'Our possibilities; go into the 

 market and purchase these feeds to any extent that your means will 

 allow or 3our credit enable you to do, feed it out with this intelli- 

 gence which secures such results, and 3-ou have a profit from the 

 operation, and you have, too, the amount of fertilizing material left 

 on your farm which has been indicated in the discussion to-day. 



Gentlemen, it is not a fancy ; it is a demonstrated fact proved 

 from practice. If we wish to make our farming profitable we have 

 onl}- to go and do as others have done, and we can extend the 

 business to any extent we please and find profit in it. 



Our programme for the day has been filled, and in closing we 

 wish to thank you for the kindly attention you have given to these 

 exercises, and for the generous hospitality you have extended to us. 



