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when they are put together. With all reverence let us repeat the 

 marriage cerniony, "What God hath joined together, let no man put 

 asunder." We fed two years with several of the different concen- 

 trates, and our cows told us the story. It is not what the chemist 

 says. Hominy meal is rather better than corn meal for milk pur- 

 poses, but at the prices at which it is ground in New England of 

 late years it has not proved an economical coucentrate to buy, as 

 some of the richest materials as a milk maker. 



A Member: What are wheat screenings? 



MR. HILLS: That is simply a nice technical term for weed seed. 

 It may be fed to sheep but their digestive powers may be destroyed, 

 and destroyed to quite a large extent. 



A Member: Are the screenings ground? 



MR. HILLS: I am not certain. A weed seed where every one is 

 smashed is not going to do any harm. The danger in this matter 

 that we cannot be sure those seeds will not pass through the animal 

 and sprout. If we can then there is no reason why digestible nutri- 

 ents in every material should not be utilized. 



Speaking about a balanced ration. It does not seem to have 

 entered into the conception of man very much that the cow is under 

 a rigorous law to make a balanced ration herself in her milk making 

 and eating for the feeding of another animal. She has to balance 

 that ration. She cannot help herself, and the question of why you 

 should feed protein and why you should feed this other feed as 

 long as you can balance them rightly is governed by the fact of the 

 work the cow has got to do herself. The Governor is entirely right, 

 that in 30 pounds of milk, the cow has got to put a pound of pro- 

 tein, and if }*ou do not give her that protein to put in there, she will 

 take it right out of herself or give you less milk. She is a fairly 

 good cow r of the pure bred type, she is very likely to pour herself 

 into that milk pail. 1 have heard it said the cow is like the Arkansas 

 jury, find for themselves first and for you second. That balanced 

 ration is not man's conception, it is made by the very animal her- 

 self. Another point about that balanced ration among dairymen. 

 In former years that balanced ration was governed on a rigid rule, 

 but the true balanced ration is made out of rubber instead of iron. 

 What is good for one is not good for the other. These standards 

 are not rules, but guides, not cast iron, but India rubber, and to be 

 interpreted with intelligence and with judgment. 



GOV. HOARD: When you strike thirty cows you strike 30 rigid 

 rules. Each cow stands rigidly to her own rule. There was an old 

 German who said: "The state pays me $4 a day for institute work. 

 I don't know that I am making anything. The cows do better when 

 I can breathe on those cows." I don't believe it was that man's 

 breath, but it was his careful oversight of those animals. He knew 

 every one of their animals, their needs and their desires and their 

 ways as he knew his children. That is the successful man in dairy- 

 ing. 



MR. REICHERT: Is it your idea the farmer should, in buying 

 these concentrated feeds be governed entirely in the price of pro- 



