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will be a decrease of fat in the milk and an increase of animal 

 fat, for the reason tliat corn meal contains but very little of the 

 milk-making element. It is highly carbonaceous, and does not 

 contain protein enough. We must feed the cow that which will 

 make blood. Corn meal will not do it. When you kill a hog that 

 has been fattened on corn only, how much blood do you get when 

 he is bled? 



A Farmer. — Not much. 



Mr. Cook. — The same is true when a cow is fed wholly on timo- 

 thy, corn, corn meal, cornstalks or straw. If the latter-named 

 coarse foods are fed, take out all the corn meal and substitute 

 bran. 



Will skim-milk, fed back to a cow, produce good milk? Do you recom- 

 meud sucli a course? 



Mr. Cook. — How many of you feed the skim-milk back to your 

 cows? 



A Farmer. — I used to feed it to pigs, but have been feeding it 

 back to the cows a year or more, and am convinced it was better 

 to give the pigs away and feed the milk back to the cows. 



Mr. Litchard. — Mr. Menzo Wilcox of Otsego county, one of 

 the best dairymen in central New York, feeds all his skim-milk 

 back to his cows, and reports it worth 20 cents per hundred 

 pounds for that purpose. 



How shall we best keep uniformity in a herd's milk through the year? 



Mr. Cook. — We must first have a herd of persistent milkers and 

 there must be some cows coming fresh every month. With such 

 a herd, properly cared for and fed, there ought not to be a varia- 

 tion of more than two-tenths of one per cent, of fat; I know of 

 no other way to do it. 



Which is most profitable, at the same price, to buy, bran from winter 

 or spring wheat? 



Mr. Van Alstyne. — I do not think there is so much difference 

 between winter wheat and spring wheat bran, as there is in sam- 

 ples of each. Some bran is poor stuff, and very much of the mid- 



