170 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
ing good quality to milk or butter. For this 
reason corn-meal is extensively fed, although 
there are other grains, as bran for example, 
that may increase the milk flow. Among the 
great cattle feeders of the West either the grain 
or the fodder of the corn plant forms the lead- 
ing food for beef production. It is not desir- 
able, however, as has already been explained, 
to feed corn entirely. Bran or shorts and a 
little oil-meal may be added to the grain rations 
where fed to milk or beef stock and better 
results secured. This question was asked Prof. 
Henry by a reader of the Breeder’s Gazette: 
“With corn at 25 cents per bushel, oil-meal 
$22 per ton, bran and shorts $12 per ton, would 
you recommend feeding a so-called balanced 
ration, and what should the steers eat of the 
mixture?” This is the reply: ‘At the price 
named for corn some oil-meal or bran or both 
can be fed to profit, I think, keeping the ration 
largely corn, however. Five or six pounds of 
bran or two or three of oil-meal per day will 
aid digestion and keep the steer in better con- 
dition and less liable to get off feed than if the 
ration 15 made up wholly of corn.” This ration 
was for a 1,000-lb. steer. 
In making a study of 100 feeding rations used 
by owners of dairy cattle in the United States, 
Prof. Woll of the Wisconsin station notes* that 
*Farm and Dairyman, January, 1885, 
