ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 137 



• Mr. Wallace : It is in the form of a cake first, and has to be 

 broken up, and it is simply a question of how fine you grind it. 



Mr. Ounn : That seems to be very hard ; will cattle readily eat it? 



Professor Kinzer: Yes, they like it. For outside feeding, I 

 would much prefer to have it. 



Mr. Cunn : Suppose you are feeding a breeding herd — one that 

 you registered, but you want to raise good breeding cattle ; would 

 it be safe to feed them very much of that cottonseed meal in con- 

 nection with ensilage? 



Professor Kinzer : I think the use of cottonseed meal is going 

 to become a very general for breeding cattle in the next few years. 

 Some of our very best breeders are using it to quite an extent with 

 yearling steers. By feeding them a pound and a half — maybe two 

 pounds a little later — they find that they go out on the pastures 

 the next season and graze much better than if they had been win- 

 tered on corn or alfalfa alone. It seems to give them strength that 

 they can't get out of any other feed. I saw a bunch of four hun- 

 dred breeding cows wintered last winter on four pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal, without any shelter, and every cow was ready for market 

 the last of July. 



Mr. Nicholas : The professor has given us a very able paper on 

 feeding in general; but he did not tell us how the champion steer 

 was fed. I want to know how it was done. 



President Sykes: We will have to call on Professor Curtis, I 

 think. 



Professor Curtiss : I might answer that question as I have sev- 

 eral times before. I tendered a little complimentary dinner to 

 the judge after the judging was over, at which he took occasion to 

 compliment Shamrock II very highly, and they called upon me 

 to tell how it happened. I told them it was very simple and dead 

 easy ; that to begin with, we bought a calf from Pat Donohoe ; then 

 we named him Shamrock, and then we showed him before a most 

 excellent judge from Tipperary. You can see that this is a combin- 

 ation hard to beat. 



I want to say while I am on the floor that, while we are proud of 

 our steers, and I am naturally gratified at being able to produce a 

 grand champion, as anyone would be, Ave are also proud of our 

 boys. We are proud of boys like Professor Kinzer, who have gone 

 out from our school and rendered such excellent service in other 

 states. Professor Kinzer is one of the Ames boys that the whole 

 state of Iowa is proud of, and he himself belongs in the grand 



