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we had to increase the amount of bran or other grain or the cows would 

 shrinlv on the milk right straight away when that gluten meal was 

 gone. 



Mr. Argo: At ten cents a gallon for milk, will it pay us to feed our 

 sheaf oats, will it pay us to add bran at that price for milk? 



Mr. Gurler: I think it would. You are not getting a balanced ration 

 there. The oats are a balanced feed. By experiments they have found 

 that oats are worth ten per cent, more than wheat bran. 



Mr. Argo: I have found that it is impossible to increase the flow of 

 milk to justify the present price of bran. 



Mr. Gurler: Your oats are a balanced feeil. Wheat and corn are 

 away out of balance. 



Mr. Buruside: You say the oats balance the ration? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes. sir. 



Mr. Burnside: At times men sell their oats and buy corn; do you 

 mean threshed oats? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, I mean the grain. 



Mr. Burnside: You say feeding silage and feeding sheaf oats. Of 

 course, you live in an oat country. You know on the ordinary farm that 

 you can raise oats and put them in the barn at a small cost. If you will 

 take oats and go to the expense of threshing them, you have an expensive 

 feed after they are threshed. Now. if you was advising— I want to ask 

 pardon for asking so many questions, but when I start to this Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, I come here clear across the State of Indiana to question these 

 men we have here, men that are at the head of the dairy business in the 

 United States, and I made up my mind I was coming here and pump him 

 dry if I could. I am a dairy man and I want to know all he knows, if I 

 can get it. - ^ 



Mr. Gurler: That is right. 



Mr. Burnside: In the concentrated feed, tliey charge us the highest 

 prices for bran. If we could raise oats and feed them in the sheaf in 

 connection with silage, don't you think we can make oxu* cows do the 

 best? 



Mr. Gurler: When yon do that, you are short of protein, and I don't 

 think it is possible for you to niake a balanced ration out of corn and 

 oats. 



