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ticate that crushed seed as they ought to. It is very hard, and 

 their teeth are quite a bit softer than in those that are eating 

 ear corn. I also found that those that liked it would get more 

 than they ought to, and the fellow that was slow wouldn't get 

 a proper amount. The question is. can we get sentiment or 

 pressure enough to induce the manufacturers to crush that meal 

 in a different manner, so that we can get better results? 



President Sykes: I think Mr. Ames could give us some infor- 

 mation on that cottonseed meal question. lie has been quite a 

 heavy feeder. 



Mr. Ames: When a man who has been feeding cattle tries to 

 tell somebody else how to feed, or what kind of feed to use, he 

 gets into trouble. I think I have fed all kinds of meal that are 

 manufactured, and my experience is that in feeding fat cattle 

 either shelled or ear corn I have the best results with the least 

 waste on the fine ground meal. Of course you can't handle cot- 

 tonseed meal in any form but what you will turn yellow. It is 

 a yellow feed, but it is clean and sweet, and a man need not ob- 

 ject to the color. As for the wind blowing it away, it doesn't 

 blow nearly as much as you think for. It is a very heavy meal; 

 it only takes a small sack to weigh a hundred pounds; and while 

 you do see some dust blowing, if you have twelve-inch bottoms in 

 your feed boxes you will lose very little meal — in fact, in my ex- 

 perience, the least of any kind of feed. If you feed corn that 

 is not thoroughly ripened, you do lose some meal. 



If I were feeding store cattle on corn fodder, either chopping 

 it with the ensilage cutter or feeding it whole, corn and all, I 

 would prefer to have the nut size of the meal. 



If the gentleman wants the size of meal known as the pea size, 

 many mills make that; but you don't find anyone asking for it, 

 because they prefer the other seed. Where you are feeding store 

 cattle part ration of ensilage or clover hay and corn fodder, I 

 think the cold-pressed cattle cake is a little better than the fine 

 ground meal. That has been my experience; some other fellow 

 will tell you something different. 



INSURANCE IN THE STOCK YARDS. 



Mr. Corrie : There is one thing that I would like to call your 

 attention to. I don't know how much is in it, but I think it is 

 well to think about. A friend of mine to whom I have shipped, 

 who is now vice-president of the Live Stock Exchange, wrote 



