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Mr. Slade. Would you buy what we call shorts ? 



Mr. Sanborn. Yes, sir. Very many suppose that milch 

 cows should be fed radically different for milk from what 

 they would be for butter. I sell milk. I feed substantially 

 the same for milk that I would for butter ; because I do not 

 believe it pays the farmer himself to make poor milk, for the 

 reason that the vitality of the cow has got to be supported. 

 If your food will make poor milk, it will be bad for the 

 vitality of the cow, and in the end you will be the loser. I 

 have not very much faith in the green foods : I do not think 

 they increase the flow of milk to any great extent. 



Mr. Slade. What quantity of meal would you feed ? 



Mr. Sanborn. That is a matter of opinion. I feed six 

 pounds a day of the mixture. 



Mr. Slade. Are shorts injurious to the quality of butter? 



Mr. Sanborn. Yes, sir. I can feed six pounds of corn- 

 meal to advantage ; and six pounds of corn-meal will increase 

 the butter-product seventeen to twenty per cent over bran, 

 and give a better quality also. 



Mr. Slade. Will it increase the milk over shorts ? 



Mr. Sanborn. No very great difference. The corn-meal 

 will give about one per cent more of milk than the bran. 



Question. You speak of the use of cotton-seed meal: 

 what is the cost of it at the present time ? 



Mr. Sanborn. I pay thirty-one dollars a ton by the car- 

 load. I speak of cotton-seed meal for the reason, as I said 

 this morning, that I think it is the cheapest food that I can 

 buy. 



Question. Do you think there is any danger in feeding 

 ■cotton-seed meal? 



Mr. Sanborn. Yes, sir, if you feed too much of it. I 

 have had trouble in feeding too much. I lost a pig this 

 summer by feeding an excess of it. I have fed an excess of 

 it to my steers, so that I had difficulty in getting them out 

 of the trouble. I never feed a calf a few days old with it. 

 I wait until it is a few weeks old, and its stomach gets strong; 

 then I begin with a small quantity. I never care to feed a 

 steer more than three or four pounds a day for growth. I 

 may say, further, that there is no need of it. It is very rich 

 in albuminoids, and you do not need to feed six pounds : if 

 you do, you waste part of it. Three pounds is the limit of 



