SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART il 95 



Q. The purpose is to get the milk value? 



A. Yes sir. The maximum production at the minimum cost, that is 

 the thing we are working for in the association, and that is why these 

 associations you have, in the twenty-four associations in Iowa, 53 per 

 cent of the members are men who have high-producing dairy cattle. The 

 associations are not dealing especially with the specialized dairymen, 

 but men milking cows for profit. 



Q. That man that fed too much corn — he was feeding ensilage at 

 that time? 



A. Yes sir. 



Q. Didn't he get enough corn in the ensilage without feeding the 

 other corn? 



A. No; I don't think so, but as a general rule cows will keep in bet- 

 ter condition if given corn, especially if they are giving from 25 to 30 

 pounds of milk. We saw a man last week who was in trouble with his 

 cows; they were poor and going off in their milk flow, and we found 

 that he was feeding nothing but ensilage and straw. Those cows had 

 given as much milk as they could and had been getting poorer all the 

 time and then went off in their milk flow because they couldn't get any 

 more protein from their bodies and as a consequence they were in pretty 

 bad condition. 



Q. What would you do about full feed; give them ensilage and a 

 little hay? What feeds would you give? 



A. To cows in milking? 



Q. Yes. 



A. This winter, as I said, is going to be quite a problem what to feed 

 our cows. For the average herd or the herd that is giving in the neigh- 

 borhood of 15 or 20 pounds of milk, about all we can do is to keep those 

 cows in the best possible condition and bring them thru the winter in 

 good shape. Protably in that case a little bit of cotton-seed meal or 

 distillers grain would help, and I believe that the price of oats, as com- 

 pared with other grains this year, will justify us in feeding a little. To 

 cows giving from 25 to 30 pounds of milk, we generally like to feed cot- 

 ton-seed meal and ensilage. 



Q. How about bran? 



A. Bran is too expensive. I don't know what it is in your com- 

 munities, but every place I have been I haven't seen it less than $26 

 a ton. 



Q. It is $30 and $31 a ton in our community. 



A. It is too expensive. 



Q. What is cotton-seed and oil meal worth? 



A. We are raying from $46 to $48. There is generally a difference in 

 price of about $2, and if you can get cotton-seed meal that comes up to 

 the test it is the cheapest, because you can get more digestible protein 

 out of it than out of oil meal. What you have to look out for is low- 

 test cotton-sesd n.eal. We had some that tested 41 to 43 per cent and 

 the same way with the rest of the constituents in the feed, so that made 

 good feed for the price. We were offered some cotton-seed meal at a 



