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We are spending too much of the proceeds of our milk for pur- 

 chased grain. Jn the desire to produce a large quantity we are 

 feeding for production rather than for profit. 



If one will note (he character of the feeds uiost in evidence through 

 the dairy sections he cannot fail to observe that by far the largest 

 ])art of them are the ■'mixed feeds," comi)arativeIy low in protein — 

 the thing that one most usually needs to buy — and high in fibre, 

 of which he has a surplus at home. The straight by-products of 

 the mills, breweries, malt houses, starch factories, cottonseed and 

 linseed oil mills are neglected, because the price a ton is higher. 

 Time forbids that I should particularize or go into a dissertation 

 on feeding, but I am sure 1 have touched on one of the greatest 

 sources of loss in milk producing. We have come to the time when 

 we would better grow on the farm more of the feeds our cows re- 

 quire, insuring their purity and nutrition and production at first 

 cost — silage, more clover and alfalfa, oats and peas and barley, 

 both as fodder and grain, not forgetting that the early cut hay will 

 take the place of a pound daily a head of grain.. Were the number 

 of cows reduced, as suggested above more and better feeds could then 

 be produced on the farm to more nearly sustain those which re- 

 main. 



SANITATION 



Last more attention to matters pertaining to sanitation make for 

 economical milk production. On this point, particularly in the milk 

 producing sections, there has been a strife between the producer 

 and the receiver of milk. My brethren, these things ought not so 

 to be. As is always the case, there is fault (m both sides, and it is 

 because of a desire to help adjust this most important matter that 

 1 disgress a bit from this, bearing on economical production. I 

 think the handler has been most to blame, although with no bad 

 intent on his part, but he has allowed — or been forced to allow — a 

 set of men to go out to inspect the dairies furnishing him milk who 

 have no practical knowledge of dairy matters, and whose main 

 thought is to draw their imy and exercise a little brief authority. 

 The farmer despises such a man, and cannot be blamed if inclined 

 to connect them with the business end of a good dog. So long as 

 the so-called Inspection is done by men of this class no progress 

 will be made, particularly when they insist on improvements that 

 require a large cash outlay, and at the same time the receiver of 

 milk cuts the price a half a cent a quart, as has been done. 



THE PROTEIN REQUIREMENTS OF THE DAIRY COW 



By PROF. WELLS W. COOKE, Washington, D. C. 



Few problenis of livestock husbandry have received more atten- 

 tion than this one of the question of how much protein is required 

 by the dairy cow. In 1864:, Wolft" published his standard ration 

 for the dairy cow which contained 160 pounds of total digestible 



