FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI. 491 



Q. This year cottonseed is worth about $32 a ton in ear lots 

 laid down on the tracks ,and we have a rather good crop of clover 

 through southeast Iowa. We have our silage to carry the cattle 

 through, as also clover hay. Would it not be cheaper to increase 

 the amount of clover hay to help balance the amount of produce 

 and reduce the cottonseed, although it might make a more bulky 

 feed 1 



Professor Pew: It might, although I believe that in order to 

 get the best finish you must have cottonseed or linseed meal in 

 about the proportions that I have mentioned. I think the figures 

 will bear out about the proportion of cottonseed meal or linseed 

 meal ; that is, 2^4 pounds for each thousand pounds of live steer, 

 and then give what hay they will probably consume. 



Q. Would you continue the silage up to the shipping point? 



Professor Pew : Up to within twenty-four hours, and possibly a 

 little later, depending to a certain extent upon the length of your 

 shipment. 



Q. In feeding once a day, what time would you feed? 



Professor Pew: Not the first thing in the morning; it might go 

 along until the beginning of the forenoon. That will depend to a 

 certain extent upon what other work 3'^ou have to do. 



Q. Shall we give the corn with the silage ? 



Professor Pew : Not necessarily, although some do that. It de- 

 pends upon the arrangement of your feed bunks. 



A Member : I would not feed a steer in the morning ; I would 

 feed them in the evening. After a steer has been out all day, you 

 feed him at night and he lies down. If I feed him in the morning, 

 he won't go out into the pasture until after he has had his feed, 

 then the dew is off the grass and he lies down. 



CONDITIONS AS SEEN FROM THE MARKET. 



The President : The next number is Mr. Chas. 0. Robinson, 

 member of the Clay, Robinson commission firm of Chicago, who 

 will talk to us on ' ' Conditions as Seen from the Market, ' ' or by the 

 man at the market. 



Mr. Robinson : Mr. President and Members of the Meat Pro- 

 ducers' Association: I can assure you this is a very high honor 

 to be asked to address you, and I came out rather under protest. 

 I have the pleasure of having been born near Burlington, at Middle- 

 town, Iowa. I have not been in Des Moines for about fifteen years, 



