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Mr. Giirler: No corn meal, no; balance up your ration with something 

 liiie shorts or gluten meal. There is a feed you get, gluten feed, from the 

 whisky distillery, that is good feed. The last I got the last part of the 

 sumn5er they had done something to, and it was not good. I wrote them 

 and asked them what they had been doing to it, but if they knew they 

 would not tell me. The cheapest protein I can get now I get from the 

 glucose factory. It is the protein part of the corn. You understand they 

 use the starch, and the protein, that proteid, that is a part of the kernel 

 they can't use at all, and that will range about 33 per cent, protein. 



Mr. Burnside: What is that worth? 



Mr. Gurler: It costs me $27.10 at Geneva. 



Mr. Burnside: Did you ever feed any cotton-seed meal? 



Mr. Gurler: I did several years ago. I would prefer a gluten meal. 

 The cotton seed is high, but somehow I don't get much result from it. 

 And now, by the way, tliere is that question of palatability, that is the 

 first thing to be thought of in a food. I don't care how well balanced a 

 food is, if the cows won't eat it how are you going to get any results? 



Ml'. Burnsid.e: If you were feeding a silage and it would make forty 

 or fifty bushels of ears to the acre, you wouldn't feed any corn meal? 



Mr. Gurler: No, sir; I would mix that with shorts or gluten meal. 

 Now I am feeding corn meal and gluten meal and making a ration of one 

 to five and a half. 



Mr. Burnside: Wouldn't it pay you better to plant your corn thinner 

 and have full-eared silage, if you lived in a corn country? 



Mr. Gurler: I don't know. 



Mr. Helmer: That is my question. I have been cutting my silage out 

 of my field corn; therefore I don't feed anj'thing else. • 



Mr. Gurler: You don't have any gTound feed? 



Mr. Helmer: No, only occasionally a little bran. 



Mr. Gurler: I make this assertion, if you would feed them some kind 

 of a protein food like bran, wheat shorts or gluten meal, your cows will 

 do better. 



Mr. Burnside: I am feeding well-eared silage and cotton-seed meal. 

 I have had some people tell me I had better have linseed meal. 



Mr. Gurler: I don't think you had better. To illustrate that point: 

 Once in a while we have gotten out of gluten meal, and every time we did 



