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Mr. Hinds: I don't know as I care to do that. The steer should be 

 fashioned to lay on meat in the best parts. Some are not built that way. 

 Some steers are not meant to be fed at all ; I think they were intended to 

 be shot. 



Mr. Brown : Have you had any experience in the last few years in feed- 

 ing corn and cob together, and what effect has it on the digestive 

 apparatus? 



Mr. Hinds: I might say that they have been trying to starve Short- 

 horns to death for fifty years, down in our county, and they haven't done 

 it yet. Practically, I don't know what the scientific properties are, but 

 it did well in our section. 



Mr. Giles: I don't want to say anything in particular about feeding 

 ground corn, cob and all, as to feeding properties, but I have a crusher 

 that I have used for six or seven years, for grinding my feed. I feed corn 

 to all of my stock, cob and all, but ground rather coarse — fed it to the 

 cattle, horses, hogs, and hens — as the main thing, and they all did well 

 on it, and I have seen no bad effects. 



Mr. Crandall: I have been feeding ground corn for six or eight years. 

 I have a machine that grinds corn and cobs. I am feeding this winter 

 everything on my farm, corn and cob meal. I took a number of hogs, 

 after feeding them corn in the ear, and ground the same amount of corn, 

 and fed it twenty-seven days — giving them just half as much as I fed in 

 the ear, and my hogs succeeded in finishing up their fattening process 

 and made nice pork. We figured it down fine, and we thought we had a 

 saving of 45 cents, which would be a large saving. It is laid down on the 

 authority of some of the experiment stations, that 11^ of the fattening 

 qualities are in the cob. If that is true, we can hardly afford to lose it, 



I ground up two or three tons at once, and for the first three or four 

 days we spread it out, and then we fed everything. I found in my lum- 

 bering that it was an excellent thing. The team steers were fed the 

 same amount of that as of the clear meal, and the horses seemed to do 

 as well with four to six quarts of cob meal as with four to six quarts of 

 the clear meal. 



Mr. Geo. C. Monroe: There is one time for selling steers that many 

 miss, and that is when they are four weeks old. We sell in Chicago at 

 that age, and we often get as high as $11.00; sometimes when a steer is a 

 year old, he will not bring more than that. I would like to emphasize 

 the point of giving them milk; give the animal all the milk it wants; we 

 give it sweet milk, and find that it pays. 



Mr. Lester: Will you give us the price of those steers, running from 

 the last of January to the first of April? That is one question. There 

 was a gentleman here last night who claimed that Mr. Ball could sell 

 cattle for five cents a pound as quick as he could sell for 2^ cents. Also 

 I would like to ask the best kind of grain to feed cattle. 



Mr. Boyden: I don't call those figures to mind now. Last year from 

 the first of January, 1 think, until the first of April, good cattle were 

 worth from four to five cents, or a little better, in Detroit. They went up 

 pretty fast, along about a year ago now; they thought they were going 

 way up, but the people didn't eat beef enough, I guess. I think about five 

 cents was the top there. 



