No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 50l 



that all animals that are being fattened shall be protected from 

 storms. Food is expensive heating material. 



CONDITIONS OF COMFORT. 



The feeder who attains to marked success in this line of woru 

 must study carefully the needs of the animals which he feeds. If 

 the conditions prove too warm through change of weather, more 

 ventilation should be promptly given. If they prove too cold, addi- 

 tional attention should be promptly given. If an animal gets off 

 food, immediate attention must be given to its needs. The more 

 completely confortable that animal can be kept, the better will 

 they flourish, and it will be the constant endeavor of the faithful 

 stockman to make them comfortable. While engaged in such work, 

 he can never come down from the watch-tower of vigilance, and his 

 reward will be proportioned to the fidelity and intelligence which 

 he has shown in his work. 



Mr. Sexton, in answer to an inquiry of Prof. Shaw, made the 

 statement that the soil of Pennsylvania does not produce a good 

 crop of Canada peas; he stated that in New York they raised from 

 thirty to thirty-five bushels per acre, but not here. 



PROF. SHAW: Mr. Chairman, I am here to say that if you can't 

 make a success of growing Canada peas as a forage crop along with 

 oats, you can't make a success of them in growing them separately. 



A Member: Why grow peas on land where you can grow 65 to 75 

 bushels of corn to the acre. Would you do that? 



PROF. SHAW: I would, under some conditions, because you 

 can't grow the corn every year on that land; you must have protein, 

 and I think you can grow it cheaper than you can buy it. Perhaps 

 you think you can buy it more cheaply. 



I would like to ask if there is anybody in the room who has grown 

 alfalfa on their farms. If so, kindly hold up your hands. 



Several stated that they had tried to grow alfalfa and failed. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Have you ever had any experience in feeding 

 alfalfa meal? 



PROF. SHAW: I have not, personally, no. I imagine, though, 

 that alfalfa meal would be all right if you havn't to pay too much 

 for it. 



MR HUTCHISON: The trouble is to get the animals to eat a 

 sufficient quantity of it. 



PROF. SHAW: I do not think it would pay to feed alfalfa meal 

 to anything only calves. I do not think it would pay to buy it to 

 feed it to animals older than calves, young calves at that. 



A Member: Would you expect the meal to be worth more than 

 the alfalfa before it was ground? 



PROF. SHAW: It would be only worth more in this respect; the 

 grinding is a sort of mastication of the alfalfa, and it might be a 

 little less indigestible; it would probably take a little more of it 

 than it would of hay; a very young calf, I am speaking about now. 



