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corn, 28 cents per bushel; corn cob meal, 1G.8 cents per bushel; oats, 18 

 cents per bushel from a protein standpoint when bran is worth $1G per 

 ton; wheat, 39 cents a bushel; rye, 35 cents a bushel; barley, 26 cents. 

 Beef meal about $71 per ton; dried blood, in skim milk, 18i^ cents per 

 hundred-weight and palm meal 24.9 cents per hundred-weight. Feeds 

 which are placed here at a low value are valuable for other things; corn 

 is not valuable for the amount of protein it contains but is valuable as a 

 fattening feed; the same thing is true of timothy. So those things may 

 be valuable for other things, but on the average farm there is an abund- 

 ance of carbohydrates and what we lack is protein, and the question is 

 "How can I purchase protein cheapest?" This chart is to show you 

 the value of the different subjects. 



I have gone over this subject hurriedly, but the time is limited, ano 

 I thank you for the attention you have given me. (Applause.) 



DISCUSSION. 



Question : Professor, do you consider it wise in feeding corn, 

 to balance corn ration witli o-luten meal? Or would it be better 

 with wheat bran? 



Answ^er: No, it will depend on the price of feed stuffs. We 

 are feeding corn and gluten feed l;ecause we can get gluten feed 

 for $18.50 a ton delivered in Ames, and that is cheaper than 

 bran. It w^ould be as cheap as bran at $9. 



Otiestion : Gluten feed is a part of corn, then is it as good as 

 some other feed ? 



Answer: That is not the point at all. Corn grown upon the 

 farm does not contain enough protein. It contains an abundance? 

 of starch and fat. The glucose man Ixiys the corn and it is 

 l)roken up for the carbohdrates, and he takes out that part the 

 farmer does not want. It would not make any difference in that 

 respect at all, l^ut we find the cattle eat gluten feed and corn just 

 as well as wheat Ijran and corn. We get as good results and 

 much cheaper. We do feed a little, more or less wheat bran all 

 the time. We keep a little on hand not ]3ecause it is cheap, but it 

 is an appetizer; but I think under present prices it would be 

 much more economical to feed gluten feed and corn than wheat 

 bran and corn. At the present prices gluten feed is $6 or $7 

 cheaper than wheat bran. 



