FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI. 475 



]\rr. ]>rockway: You won't liave very much hog feed. You will 

 have a splendid place to keep your pigs exercised, and they will do 

 well, but you have to feed them something besides. Of course, there 

 is always a certain amount of waste feed. 



A Member : Do the hogs do as well where you are feeding cotton- 

 seed meal? 



Mr. Brockway : Yes, 1 think they do : I have never noticed any 

 difference. 



A Member: AVouldn't you rather have oil meal than cottonseed? 



Mr. Brockway: I have fed both, and I feel that the calves do 

 just as well, probably, on oil meal as on cottonseed; but the cotton- 

 seed furnished much cheaper protein. Just now it is pretty near a 

 standoff, with cottonseed meal at 32i/o and oil meal 29. Nearly 

 always oil meal is $5 to. $6 a ton more than cottonseed. 



A Member: Wouldn't you prefer, in feeding oil meal, to feed at 

 night rather than morning? 



l\Ir. Brockway : No. I have fed at both times, and I would 

 rather feed the oil meal in the morning. I feed my grain ration at 

 night, and I think it would not be w^ell to feed two concentrated 

 feeds at one time. And, furthermore, I think by putting the cotton- 

 seed meal over the silage you get it better distributed than you 

 would on the corn. Of course, in feeding this pound or pound and 

 a quarter per head you have to watch that every calf gets his 

 share, otherwise some calf may get two pounds and another not 

 get an^^ 



A Member : "What do you think about feeding all the alfalfa 

 hay the calf will eat ? 



Mr. Brockway : I would not think there would be much neces- 

 sity of feeding oil meal. 



Mr. Drury : The calf proposition at this time, w^ith sixty-cent 

 corn, is a pretty high proposition. 



Mr. BrockAvay : Buy 22,000 pounds of heavy cattle and the same 

 number of pounds of calves. For every thousand pounds original 

 weight I believe I can put on twice as many pounds of gain on the 

 calves as on the steers. I can come much nearer making that calf's 

 gain pay for his feed than I can with the big cattle. I have the 

 element of growtli along with it. T thing a great many of these 

 calves have l)een stunted by giving them -too strong a grain ration. 

 You pour all the grain to a calf that he will eat, and that not only 

 gets mighty expensive from the feeder's standpoint, but I don't 

 believe the calf will do as well as on half the grain ration. 



