STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 633 



Mr. Gurler: The average cow has been getting this winter a ration 

 of ten quarts per day, coijiposed of one part gluten meal— mind you, 

 that is not gluten meal analyzing 33 per cent, protein. The gluten feed 

 has the bran ground with it. My ration this winter has been ten quarts 

 per day, composed of one part gluten meal, one part wheat bran, three 

 parts corn meal, with what corn silage and hay they would eat. This 

 hay has been some of the time alfalfa, some of the time oat hay, and 

 clover and timothy hay. This combination of grain weighs just about 

 a pound to the quart. The wheat bran weighed 17 pounds per bushel; 

 the corn meal 50 pounds per bushel, the gluten meal 61 pounds per bushel. 



Question: Then that would make more than a pound to the quart. 



Mr. Gurler: It was not equal parts, you would have to take a lead 

 pencil for that. 



Question: Wasn't that feeding a good deal of corn? 



Mr. Gurler: It figured out a balance ration, one to five and a half, 

 and that is what I was aiming for. With this they were fed about 

 forty pounds of silage. 



Question: Was the silage well eared? 



Mr. Gurler: I don't know as you would call it well eared. There 

 was just about twice the amount of seed planted that you would put 

 in for a grain crop. In this barn with the tifty cows there were six 

 cows among that fifty that made less than 200 pounds of butter per 

 year, and there were seven that made over 400 pounds per year. The 

 average of those seven was 440^/^ pounds. Those poorest cows averaged 

 173.7 pounds per cow. Two hundred pounds is the dead line down at 

 my place. Unless I am satisfied that a cow can do better in the future 

 I dispose of her. • 



Question: Were those six cows some of your best heifer cows, or 

 some you had to go out and buy? 



Mr. Gurler: Most of those were cows I bought. 



Question: Do you mean the best ones? 



Mr. Giu-ler: Yes. There was a period that I did not raise any 

 heifer calves, but I have got a nice lot of young heifers coming up now. 



Question: Do you find gluten meal better feed than distillery grain? 



