FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI. 473 



Mr. Brockway : Yes, the biggest ones would weigh nearly 400 

 pounds. I will say that these heaviest calves were from a thorough- 

 l)red bunch of cows — stock taken down there from J\Iissouri — prob- 

 ably Missouri Herefords. 



A Member: What is the freight from down there? 



Mr. Brockway : It will cost about $2.20 a head to land the 

 calves here. Last year the same quality of calves cost from $22 

 to $25. 



A Member: How do you cut your corn? 



Mr. Brockway : I simply rim tlie corn through an ensilage 

 cutter and leave the cob with it. Personally, I don't believe in 

 grinding corn for a calf. There is no animal that has better diges- 

 tion than a calf, and I venture to say that they will derive more 

 benefit from the feed if they take a little more time. If the corn 

 is crushed they will not sort it out from the cob. 



I want to emphasize feeding at night. I believe it is better for 

 the animal to eat his corn at night and then lie down and digest it, 

 and that you get nuich better results than by feeding at any other 

 time. 



Mr. Myers: Are you sure of your assertion that we should feed 

 cottonseed meal ? 



]\Ir. Brockway : I have had success with it. 



Mr. Myers : I have a neighbor who has been feeding ensilage for 

 four or five years. He said he doesn't feed cottonseed meal; he 

 feeds straw and chopped corn and a very little clover hay. He is 

 a very successful feeder and has made money out of it. It might 

 be different with younger cattle. 



Mr. Brockway : In feeding calves I wouldn 't know any better 

 way to invite failure than by feeding an absolutely all corn ration — 

 corn silage and corn fodder. I think it is absolutely essential, so 

 far as my experience is concerned, to provide bone, hair and muscle 

 building material, or the calves Avill not grow. They get big in the 

 middle and smaller at both ends until you have no calf left at all, 

 without the protein added to the ration. 



A Member: Isn't the difference in the climate pretty hard on 

 the calves for a month or two in Iowa, after delivery in November ? 



Mr. Brockway: Not at all; they will do just as well as our 

 calves here. Of course, the shipment is hard on them ; it will take 

 them two or three weeks to get squared away. 



A Member: Don't you think it is profitable to feed those calves 

 corn ensilage and cottonseed meal through the summer until they 

 are finished? 



