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the better you are off. They are freighting it to us in the form of 

 a meal at $20.00. Although I am inclined to think, if you have to 

 pay $20.00 a ton for alfalfa meal, it would be just as well to keep 

 on feeding linseed meal. 



Question: Do you thiuk shocked com and alfalfa hay would 

 be better than shocked com and plenty of bluegrass? 



Prop. Smith : I am not prepared to say which would be the 

 cheaper, because we have made no tests on the subject. I know 

 this to be true — for 25 years we have fed just that combination, 

 and always get good gains, are often able to market our cattle right 

 off the grass and get a good fini.sh at a low cost. But for winter 

 feeding, shocked com and alfalfa makes a good combination. 



Now, I am showing you a comparison of wheat bran versus lin- 

 seed meal versus cotton seed meal. I am presupposing that we are 

 not feeding anything but com and timothy, or corn and prairie hay, 

 or com and stover, as illustrated by the following table : 



Table III. — Wheat bran versus linseed meal versus cotton-seed meal. 



♦Profit. 

 tLoss. 



I had another chart, in which I had a comparison of com and 

 prairie hay with oil meal, and without oil meal. I will say, that in 



