The Question Box. 57 



1 pound ginger $0 20 



2 pounds saltpetre 30 



1 pound anise seed 15 



114 $2 25 



Question. — What is the value of bone meal for cattle ? 



Dr. Smead. — I should not feed it; it is too indigestible. Cattle 

 can get mineral in a more digestible form in wheat bran. 



Question. — What is the difference in the value of gluten meal 

 and wheatj)ran \ 



Mr. Witter. — Gluten contains more protein, but is deficient 

 in mineral matter when compared with bran. I should feed both 

 together. 



Question. — Will turnips injure a cow's milk ? 



Mr. Smith. — Xo; provided too many are not fed, and they 

 are fed directly after milking. I heard a dairyman say at an 

 institute recently that he fed his cows a bushel of turnips each 

 per day. He makes butter which he sells to private families. Xo 

 fault is or has been found with it. 



A Farmer. — That is a big story, but he may have big cows. 



Another Fanner. — That statement cannot be true. Such a 

 quantity would surely injure the next milking; that is my opinion. 



Question. — Can we afford to raise hay to feed cows, on land 

 that will grow corn? 



Mr. Bentley. — What kind of hay? 



A Farmer. — I will say no, speaking from general principles. 



Mr. Bentley. — I do not think that any farmer here can afford 

 to plow up a well-established meadow and plant it to something 

 else. The question of labor enters in too sharply for that. 



Mr. Smith. — The average yield of timothy hay is less than one 

 and a half tons per acre, or, say, 3,000 pounds. We get in 3,000 

 pounds of timothy hay about 1,100 pounds of starch; that is 

 above the average yield in this State. In an acre of good silage 

 corn there is from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds of starch. We feed 

 both the hay and the corn for their starch element; therefore, we 

 cannot afford to feed our cows timothy hay. Xo; plant corn, put 

 it into silo and sell the hay, especially when you can get $12 per 

 ton for it, as you can now. 



Do you know what a pound of butter or cheese will cost, made 

 from timothy hay at $12 a ton? The butter, taking the yield of 



