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Mr^Gurler: Have you ever practiced that, and is it profitable? 



A Member: I have; yes. I never figured that thing out to see whether 

 there was a profit, but I know I can increase the flow of milli very nicely 

 by feeding bacL: to the cow sweet skim milk. I can't toll whether I 

 get more for the skim milk fed to the pigs than if fed to the cows. 



Mr. Gurler: Here is a matter of the rations that I fed those cows. 

 I aimed to work to the German standard, that is one to five and a half, 

 and that ration that was fed for the year ending the first of September 

 last was one of protein to five and a half carbo-hydrates and fat re- 

 duced to carbo-hydrates. I don't think I'd better touch that feeding 

 question any further. I dislike always to preach where there is some 

 fellow looking on that I know can do better. I want to mention here 

 again that question of palatability, for there is no question of greater 

 importance. We may have a feed that will analyze all right, but if it 

 is damaged in any way, or for any reason the cow don't like it, don't 

 want more of it, don't eat it with a good relish, they won't do their best. 

 You are at fault, not the cow. Now, there is another point: There 

 is a question in my mind whether skim milk is not really entitled to 

 all the increase that you can get from feeding grain feeds with it, over 

 what you get feeding the grain alone. Just go home and think about 

 that. I don't want to deceive myself, nor you, but it is hard to get a 

 feed that will take the place of skim milk. 



A Member: I believe the gentleman's figures of the value of skim 

 milk are substantially correct, and that skim milk is worth more fed 

 to pigs than anything else. I believe his figures as to labor are also 

 substantially correct. 



Question: Supposing you fed that skim *milk to the calf, would it 

 be worth as much as you say? 



Mr. Gurler: The calf does not show up here at all; but if fed to 

 calf it would be worth more. To a calf fed intelligently, skim milk 

 is certainly worth 25 cents a hundred. 



Question: It makes a difference what kind of a calf? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, and it makes a difference what kind of a man. 

 I told you that there is more ditference in the men that feed the calves 

 than there is in the calves. 



Question: What amount of grain do you feed your cattle on the 

 average? 



