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PROF. MENGES: I don't know; you had better ask the college 

 men why they have it growing. 



MR. McHENRY: Would it be in order to make a motion in re- 

 gard to our afternoon meeting at this time? If it is in order, 1 

 will move that we meet at half-past one instead of half-past two. 



Motion was seconded and agreed to. 



ROUND TABLE— SECTION A. 

 (Conducted by Mk. CAwrisELL.) 



MR. SCHWARZ: I want to ask Mr. Campbell whether beets are 

 to be fed raw or cooked, or how? 



MR. CAMPBELL: Feed them raw. Cut them in two, with a 

 hatchet, and stick them against the side of the wall; the hens will 

 do the rest. 



QUESTION: "What is the price of alfalfa meal and where can it 

 be obtained?" 



MR. CAMPBELL: That is a new food product. I know of no 

 place at this time this side of Chicago where it can be obtained. No 

 doubt, before spring, all the wholesale feed stores in the cities will 

 be handling it. What I have came from Omaha, Neb., but the ex- 

 cessive freight charges are against getting it there. In carloads, 

 it will cost about seventy cents per hundred pounds; in hundred- 

 pound lots, one dollar per hundred pounds. As soon as we can get 

 it from the wholesale feed stores — nearby stores — why, we can 

 afford to feed it. It is made from alfalfa, grown by irrigation, and 

 lots of it is just as fine as flour. It analyzed from 23 to 24 per cent, 

 of digestible protein at the Nebraska Experiment Station. The 

 manufacturers of this meal guarantee it to contain 14 per cent, of 

 digestible protein. 



M5- WALLACE: I would like to ask whether a warm mash fed 

 in the morning is better than a mash fed at night? 



MR. CAMPBELL: I want to feed the mash in the evening, be- 

 cause the hens digest it more quickly and come off the nest in the 

 morning with a better appetite. 



MR. SCHWARZ: I would like to ask whether that price for 

 alfalfa meal is not excessive, and, if so, why is not our home-grown 

 clover seed chopped up just as good? 



MR. CAMPBELL: Because it has not got the feeding value and 

 we cannot manipulate it in the mash as we can this material. 



