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President: At our place we have what is known as the straight 

 gluten meal. 



Mr. Mills: I have fed it for some time, and one is the pure gluten, 

 and the other is the gluten feed. The pure gluten they guarantee 36 per 

 cent, of protein and 4^^ per cent, of fat. The mixed feed 24 per cent, 

 protein and 3 per cent. fat. I use the mixed feed on account of the extra 

 bulli I would get. 



President: That is part gluten meal and gluten feed mixed together; 

 they mix them. 



Mr. Mills: Considering the price of both, mixed feed at $19 and the 

 other at .$22, which, in your judgment, would be the proper feed to feed? 



President: I didn't have any idea you got that amount of protein you 

 say. 



Mr. Mills: It is guaranteed on each package. 



President: I would rather pay $22 for the 36 than $19 for the other. 



Mr. Mills: You would have considerable less feed and bulk. The rea- 

 son I choose was because I could feed a larger bulk. 



President: There is one reason why a person can afford to pay a 

 liigher price for the gluten meal. Gluten meal is more digestible than 

 gluten feed, on the same basis that ordinary cornmeal is more digestible 

 than cornstalk. The more woody fiber yoir have in an article of feed— 

 the more crude fiber— the more difficult it is to digest, and the nearer you 

 approach to the gluten feed, the more of the l)ran and chaffy part of the 

 corn you have. This matter hiis not been referred to, but, as a product of 

 the starch factories, there is quite a wide variety of names given to these 

 products tliat contain a good deal of protein. There are fifteen or twenty 

 pi'oducts sent out by the starch factories that have different names, and 

 one can't always tell by the name what material lie is getting. 



Mr. Mills: I would like to inquire the relative value of millet as com- 

 pared with timothy and clover hay. 



Mr. Newsoni: I think clover hay, good clover h.ny, will show better 

 results tlian millet, but millet has shown better results than timothy hay. 

 I would like to ask Mr. Mills if he has ever noticed the way the cows will 

 eat the gluten feed? 



Mr. Mills: We feed it in bran; some of our cows seem to like it and 

 others don't. Some we feed it with silage, and, with but one or two 

 exceptions, they seem to prefer the other at the present time. 



