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A. I have had no such difliculty. With twenty-five per cent, of drv 

 matter I have seen no trouble of this kind. I feed cottonseed oil 

 when there is not so much of the alfalfa or moist hay. We feed 

 with cornstalks and hay as a change more than for anything else and 

 then balance up with feeds, I have used buckwheat middlings this 

 year, which we get in New York State. 



Q. What is the price? 



A. Twelve dollars a ton. 



Q. Do you find the flow of milk as good from silage as from 

 pasture. 



A. We have no pasture, so I cannot compare the two. We are 

 able to get a continuous flow of milk on silage. 



Mr. Embree: Whenever I changed the cows from silage to fresh 

 l)asture I felt that I had an increased flow of milk. 



Q. Perhaps you do not give them enough? 



A. They are given all they can eat. 



Professor Voorhees: I think if there is difficulty with soiling it is 

 because it is not the right kind. These cattle are turned out and 

 given an abundance. They sometimes get seventy-five to ninety 

 and sometimes sixty pounds a day according to the amount and a.^ 

 we understand what the dry matter would be in it. Under those 

 conditions they are up to the full floW' of milk. 



Q. Would you advise running all crops through the cutter? 



A. I think not. I do not see the real advantage. When the 

 weather is dry we put fodder on the floor. 



Q. Do you issue a bulletin? 



A. We issued only one bulletin two or three years ago. It has 

 not been brought up to the present time. 



Q. You say the price of buckwheat is $12 a ton; some years ago 

 we had a buckwheat in our State that was really buckwheat. Now- 

 it is largely mixed with hulls, a great many of which we find in buck- 

 wheat iniddlings at |20 a ton. Two or three years ago it was sold at 

 $15 per ton. Do you find much of the hulls in that which you get 

 from New York? 



A. Not much; perhaps fifteen to tw'enty-five pounds in a hundred 

 pounds. 



Q. What per cent, of protein has the buckwheat? 



A. About twenty-four per cent. 



The discussion of Secretary namilton's address was then resumed 

 participated in by Messrs. Edge, McSparran, Sharpless and Embree, 

 after which the following resolution ofi"ered by Mr. Maloney was 

 adopted: 



Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Dairy Union learns with regret 

 of the non-enforcement of our pure food law in Allegheny county of 

 this Commonwealth, owing to failure of the courts to act. and pledges 



