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to keep that flow up. Be careful about giving a calf rich 

 food, like corn meal or cotton-seed meal ; give it something 

 that will develop muscle, not fat. I do not believe in giving 

 much linseed meal. When a cow comes in milk, then give 

 concentrated food in connection with the other food ; not 

 cotton-seed meal alone, but always in connection with other 

 food. , 



Question. How about oatmeal ? 



Mr. Douglas. That is excellent. I usually raise a large 

 quantity of oats. I once sold my oats because they brought 

 so much higher price in proportion to their feeding value, 

 and bought cotton-seed meal to take the place of the oats. 

 I mix peas with the oats. I find that oats are excellent to 

 make up a good milk-producing ration. So of late I use 

 my oats for feed, instead of exchanging them for cotton-seed 

 meal. 



Mr. Bradley. I hardly agree with the speaker in regard 

 to breedino- orade stock. I think that pure-bred stock is 

 better, but farmers will not buy pure-bred stock. But they 

 can all get a pure-bred male, and that is a stepping-stone to 

 something higher. Farmers demand cheap stock, and 

 breeders are raising stock to supply that demand. If they 

 bred high-priced stock they could hardly sell it, but cheap 

 animals will sell readily. Farmers are to blame in this 

 matter. They should not only buy the best, but, when 

 they pay high prices, they should know they are getting the 

 best. Pure-bred stock is bred for speculative purposes, 

 and breeders find that they can make more money out of 

 cheap stock than they can out of high-priced stock. An 

 animal that has a long pedigree is not necessarily the best. 

 That pedigree may be made up of animals with a great 

 variety of qualities as respects the production of butter and 

 milk, and of animals of all shapes and sizes. The animal 

 needed is one that has been bred in one continued line for 

 generations, each ancestor having those peculiar qualities 

 which we wish to breed and perpetuate in our herds. 



Mr. Fitch. Does not the character of the animal depend 

 more on the character of the feeding the first two years, 

 other things being equal, than on the pedigree? 



Mr. Douglas. I thought I brought that out with sufiicient 



