1907.] DISCUSSION. 139 



A Member. I understand that now. I feed oats and 

 wheat, buckwheat and cracked corn, but what I am getting 

 at is if I raise a kind of corn of the highest protein content 

 whether it will be necessary for me to still feed wheat? 



Mr. East. Yes ; I think that you would have to have dif- 

 ferent kinds of protein. Of course, the protein in corn is 

 different, in some respects, from what it is in other grains. 

 You need different kinds or varieties of protein. That is my 

 present idea. I would not like to say until it was tried, but 

 I should say that corn could be bred that was as high as the 

 average of wheat, and it might be that you could adapt your 

 chickens to it so that it would take the place of other things. 



The President. Is there any greater feed value to the 

 corn raised in Connecticut than in western corn? 



Mr. East. I have only one year's analysis on that, and I 

 would not like to say. That one year showed a slightly higher 

 feed value, but it may have been that that was what we call 

 a high protein year. It would be better before anything definite 

 is said on that point, I think, to continue our investigations. 



The President. I think the Connecticut farmers, as a 

 rule, hold that their corn is richer. 



Mr. East. Some of the flint corn was very much, but Mr. 

 Stadtmueller's Leaming was almost a per cent, lower than 

 the western dent. However, I could not judge anything from 

 that. 



Mr. Beach. Don't you think that the flint corn, on the 

 average, runs higher than the dent? 



Mr. East. Yes, in protein, but I should say that the 

 amount shown on that chart was over the average for the 

 flint corn, but I think that the difference between the averages 

 would be less than one per cent. 



The President. I think we will have to arrest this dis- 

 cussion now. It is an intensely interesting subject, but our 

 time is hmited. It makes a vast difference to us as farmers 

 whether we get a corn plant that will yield twenty tons to the 



