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stock in shares of $5 each offered to the members of the supporting 

 organizations during the same month. As a result of a quick and 

 comprehensive campaign about two-thirds of the stock was sub- 

 scribed and the Exchange began business about July 1, 1920. 



122. The feed and grain department. — This department of 

 the Exchange was at the very beginning located at Buffalo, New 

 York, where a fairly large mill was built and equipped. This de- 

 partment early began the manufacture of public formula, ready- 

 mixed rations for G.L.F. members. The demand for these rations 

 soon outgrew the Buffalo plant and it became necessary for the 

 Exchange to secure additional manufacturing facilities. 



In the meantime, coincident with the development of the 

 G.L.F., New England farmers were developing the Eastern States 

 Farmers Exchange, Michigan farmers the Michigan Farm Bureau, 

 and Pennsylvania farmers the Pennsylvania Farmers' Co-opera- 

 tive Federation. These organizations all had the same problems, 

 among them the manufacture of the best possible dairy and poul- 

 try rations. 



123. Feeds with public formulas. — The managers of these 

 farmers' co-operative corporations early in 1922 got in touch 

 with the feeding experts of the eleven eastern agricultural colleges 

 and invited them to meet and agree upon the best possible formulas 

 for dairy rations and other mixed rations. This meeting was held 

 in Springfield during the summer of 1920. 



Probably the greatest single success of the feed department of 

 the G.L.F. has come through the manufacture and distribution of 

 the G.L.F. dairy feeds, particularly of G.L.F. Milkmaker. The 

 formulas of the G.L.F. dairy feeds follow: 



G.L.F. Milkmaker 



Pounds 



Distillers' grains 200 



Gluten feed 500 



Cottonseed meal 43% 260 



Oil meal O. P 240 



Std. wheat bran 200 



Std. wheat middlings 100 



Yellow hominy 160 



Ground oats 100 



Cane molasses 100 



