36 BOARD OF AORICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Glazier. Certain parties advertise balanced foods 

 for sale, but I think such foods are rather expensive. They 

 get something for balancing, and what I think the farmers 

 would like to know is about what you have outlined, — how 

 to balance grains and green food. Noav, I would like to ask 

 the lecturer whether the narrow or the wide ration is the 

 better for egg-producing food. 



Professor Brigham. Narrow ration, to be sure ; but you 

 want to bear in mind, if you have a large amount of corn on 

 hand, and beef scraps and meat are high and you cannot afford 

 to buy them,' that 3^ou can feed the whole corn and scraps 

 from the table, and get sufficient animal food ; but if you 

 have not enough you can use the ration of corn and table 

 scraps, and still have it more economical than to waste your 

 money on excessively high-priced protein food. 



Mr. Glazier. We can sometimes buy animal meal, but 

 not scraps. Is animal meal as good? 



Professor Brigham. That depends on wdio makes it, and 

 what it is made from. I think you will find that the prin- 

 ciple holds good, that when you are buying grain, if 3^ou 

 can get it in coarse form and have the means of grinding, it 

 is much the better. You take analyses and experiments 

 regarding whole corn and cracked corn, and you will see 

 Avliere the chance of adulteration comes in. Take whole oats 

 and compare with ground oats having hulls in them, and 

 you will find there is a large amount of fibre, because they 

 use light oats to grind up, and that means a large amount 

 of husks to a little kernel ; and again, in cracked corn they 

 use damaged corn, and after it is ground up you cannot tell 

 as well. The chances are that cracked corn will be of 

 poorer quality than whole corn. Cotton seed ground fine 

 into cotton-seed meal may be palmed off" on the farmer for 

 several times its actual value. There are those who usually 

 put up good animal meal, but they are a})t to put in every- 

 thing in the slaughter house that cannot be used for any 

 other purpose than making animal meal, and it is more or 

 less so with beef scraps. The department of foods and feed- 

 ing at our experiment station is designed to prevent this 

 adulteration, so far as may be possible ; and if yon are in 



