35G Bureau of Farmkks' Institutes. 



Air. Ward. — TluU is jii.st what ^ve are doing and shall keep 

 doing. 



Mr. Pingre.v. — Some cows at such a stage of gestation give 

 garget}' milk. Should they bo milked? 



Mr. Converse. — Yes; if you stop, the cow will lose a portion 

 or the whole of the udder. 



A Farmer. — Would you stop milking a cow when she begins 

 to " spring bag? " 



Mr. Converse. — It would depend upon the quantity of milk she 

 was giving. If the mess was large, I would not. 



What is the comparative value of homiuy meal and gluten feed for 

 milch cows? 



Mr. Van Alstyne. — I have not the tables with me, but T 

 think that hominy is worth about |2 less per ton than is corn 

 meal, w^hile gluten is wholly a different food. One is carbonace- 

 ous, the other nitrogenous, so do not compare at all. 



How much cotton seed meal would you feed, if any? 



Mr. Cook. — Not to exceed two pounds; and I would feed it dry 

 with the dry coarse fodders. 



Do cows need a grain ration when in pastures? If so, what is best to 

 feed? 



Mr. Smith. — If there was all the pasture the cows required, 

 probably they would not need any grain ration; but, as a rule, in 

 the average pasture in dry weather the cows do not get enough 

 to eat unless they wander about all day. When a cow does this 

 she is not making milk, and must necessarily shrink her milk 

 tlow. The most successful dairymen I know to-day in this State 

 feed grain every day in the year. 



What grains would you feed? 



Answer. — Wheat bran and cotton-peed meal; but 1 would not 

 begin with more than half a pound of cotton-seed meal and would 

 not feed more than a pound of it per day. It is a concentrated 

 food and must be fed judiciously. 



Dr. Smead. — Oats and peas would come in very well for such 

 feeding. Buckwheat middlings are a good food, but they make 

 a poor quality of butter. Besides, their manurial value is not 



