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Guernsey breeders are looking for more milk. As a rule, the cow 

 that gives very rich milk gives a small flow, although she may 

 remain in milk a long time; while the cow giving a large flow puts 

 lees fat into it. It is the tendency of these two extremes lo come 

 closer together. 



Can a Holstein cow that gives 9,000 pounds of milk per year be made 

 to give five per cent, milk? 



Mr. Smith. — I don't know. I guess it would be pretty hard 

 work. But there are some very valuable Holstein cows, those 

 which give 4 per cent. milk. The average Jersey cows do not 

 give more than 4.5 to 4.8 per cent., although there are many which 

 give a much higher per cent. As a rule, the cow which gives a 

 large flow of milk does not put in so large a per cent, of fat. 



How does Pasteur's stock food compare with other stock foods? 



Mr. Smith. — I don't know anything about that particular 

 variety, but I suppose it belongs to the general line of these foods. 

 They are composed of linseed oil, meal and salt, with something 

 to make them smell well, and a little tonic. They cost from $25 

 to $30 per ton, and are sold to the farmer in small lots at $300 — a 

 good business for the manufacturers, but a poor one for the 

 farmer who buys them. 



What is the value of sugar-beet pulp to feed cows? 



Mr. Cook. — They are experimenting with sugar-beet pulp in 

 feeding a bunch of steers at Cornell, but no results have been 

 published as yet. Prof. Wing says that they are quite well satis- 

 fied so far, as compared wath ensilage, but it is not yet safe to 

 quote a price for it. 



What does gluten feed cost at the experiment stations? 

 Mr. Cook. — I do not know just now what gluten feed is quoted 

 at in the market in car lots. 



Mr. Van Wagenen.— At Cobleskill, last week it was $18.50 



per ton. '. 



