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mill the cost is too much. I have no use for a miller to grind corn. 

 I can utilize it better and more cheaply through the silo. 



Question. — Can you get as much milk from common com stalks 

 as from sweet corn stalks? 



Mr. Cook. — 'Yes, I do; and can hack up what I say by proof. 

 It is cheaper to grow the common corn, and there is more feeding 

 value in it. 



Question.— Is it advisable, if you have plenty of oats and corn, 

 to mix bran or wheat middlings with them at $18 per ton? 



Mr. Smith. — Corn meal is a starchy food, so is timothy hay or 

 corn stalks. When you feed either of those foods together yon 

 simply increase the sugar and starch and feed more than the animal 

 can digest. If those foods are balanced, protein foods must be 

 given. Oats, wheat bran, gluten and other like foods should be 

 given in connection with the carbonaceous foods. I should soil 

 some of the corn and buy oats or some other of the protein foods. 



Question. — How much protein should a cow be fed per day? 



Dr. Smead. — A cow weighing 1,000 pounds, in milk, ought to 

 have two and one-half pounds per day, and about 13 or 14 pounds 

 of carbohydrates. If she is dry, about one-half that quantity. 



Question. — Of what value are malt sprouts as a food for milch 

 cows? 



Mr. Smith. — If you can buy them at $10 per ton, it is the 

 cheapest form in which you can buy protein. They contain about 

 25 per cent, of this element. 



Question. — What is the best and cheapest feed for cows where 

 the average price of milk would not exceed two cents a quart? 



Mr. Smith.- — You cannot make it at that price unless you have 

 a good cow. Then you must feed her plenty of good, digestible 

 food. Milk can be made more cheaply from ensilage than any other 

 feed. You can set more value in dry matter to the acre in alfalfa 

 than in any other crop. It is a protein feed and will help balance 

 your ensilage. A grain ration of wheat bran, cotton seed meal or 

 dried brewers' grains, with the ensilage and alfalfa or clover hay 

 will make milk as cheaply as it is possible to make it. 



To Mr. Gould. — Is the cow pea a good crop to grow? 



Mr. Gould. — Yes ; but it is a hot weather crop and will not 

 stand frost. Drill it in with every other tooth of the drill taken 

 out. In that way it may be cultivated, which will hasten the 

 ripening period. It is valuable because it is wonderfully rich in 

 nitrogen. * 



A Farmer. — I tried them last year. The season was not long 

 enough for them. 



