DAIRY MEETING. HQ 



THE VALUE OF FEEDING STUFFS FOR THE 



DAIRY COW. 



By Prof. J. M. Bartlett. 



When asked to give a paper or talk on feeds for the dairy 

 cow at this annual meeting of dairymen, I took down my set of 

 Commissioner's reports and looked through them to learn what 

 had been given previously on this important subject. I found 

 that at nearly every meeting for the past 15 years feeds for 

 dairy cows had been very ably and thoroughly discussed by 

 both practical dairymen and scientific investigators ; conse^ 

 quently there is practically nothing new to be presented ; and 

 it seems like threshing over old straw to attempt to say any- 

 thing on the subject. There is one consolation, however, in the 

 fact that if there is not much new to say there are always some 

 new listeners and. if we do have to use old material, there are 

 always some in the audience who have not heard it before, 

 and I expect one reason why our Commissioners get new 

 speakers to come to these meetings and speak on these old 

 subjects, "chestnuts" if you choose to call them, is because the 

 new man presents his ideas with more enthusiasm under the 

 delusion that he is presenting something new to his audience. 

 Notwithstanding how stale the subject is, it is, nevertheless, an 

 important one to the dairyman and must be studied and dis- 

 cussed as long as the business of dairying continues, otherwise 

 we will not progress and the business will deteriorate. 



THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF THE ANIMAE BODY. 



In order to know the essentials and value of feeds, or foods, 

 for animals we should first know of what the animal body and 

 its products are composed and what is needed to sustain them. 



