510 . BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Burnside: How much bran are you feeding them? 



Mr. Newsom: I don't know, exactly; we vary the feed according to 

 the quantity of milk the cow is giving, but it would run along about four 

 pounds. 



Mr. Burnside: A day? 



Mr. Newsom: Yes, a day. 



The President: I want to ask the question, which was suggested by 

 the question asked by Mr. Burnside, how many persons in this audience 

 that own siloes use them? (Those doing so held up tlieir hands.) 



The Secretary: Seventeen, I make it. 



The President: There is a question in connection with that: How 

 many of you men that feed corn silage feed cornmeal? 



The Secretary: There is one person. 



The President: Mr. Newsom says, also, he is feeding some now. 



The Secretary: What are the particular conditions which make it de- 

 sirable to feed it? 



A Voice: The price of it. 



The President: We are feeding cornmeal in addition to silage. 



Mr. Jamison: Mr. President, in feeding corn we feed ic more because 

 we have it on hand. It is there in the way, and we feed it rather than 

 feed it to hogs. 



The President: How many of you that put corn in your silos had good 

 corn this year? 



Mr. Burnside: What do you call "good corn?" 



The President: We will say twenty-five bushels to the acre. 



Mr. Burnside: We didn't have it. 



The President: Mr. Husselman is here, and they feed quite an exten- 

 sive herd at his place at Auburn, and I would like to have him tell us 

 what they feed their cows. 



Mr. Husselman: Following is the ration I fed our cows this past win- 

 ter. First feed in morning: Four pounds bran, followed with thUfty-five 

 pounds silage immediately after milking. About 1 p. m. we fed in the 

 racks about twenty-five or thirty pounds millet hay per cow; at 3:30 p. m. 

 we fed about thirty-five pounds of corn fodder and clover hay, cut fine and 



