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rye, but you will find more ash in oats and barley on accoimt 

 of the fibrous husks. 



Mr. Worth. I would like to ask why you have changed 

 the composition of your dry mash from a year ago last June. 

 I was there and took your formula and liked it very much, 

 but I see you have changed it somewhat. 



Professor Graham. I can't give any reason for doing 

 that. 



]\Ir. Worth. But it is a fact, though, is it not ? 



Professor Graham. Well it is and it isn't. I simply 

 made another mash, leaving out the ground alfalfa and com- 

 pounding it in such a way that I could use 100 pounds of 

 linseed meal and gluten meal. Any one of these three mashes 

 I gave you will give good results; they are all good. By 

 leaving out alfalfa meal we can feed our green material in 

 another form if we want to. We have on hand at the present 

 time a great deal of alfalfa hay. 



Mr. W^ORTH. Then you consider the mash you formerly 

 used as good as the one you are now using ? 



Professor Graham. It is as good, in a way, but not quite 

 so concentrated. There is no need of alfalfa in the mash if 

 the birds are on range or are given it in another form. The 

 third mash, the last one we compounded, has a greater per 

 cent of protein in it, but I do not think that one would find 

 any great difference in feeding them. 



Mr. Worth. It seemed to me in feeding it that the pro- 

 portion of ground alfalfa was large. 



Professor Graham. Yes, it was, I think, one-sixth. 



Mr. Worth. I do not know that it was, but it appeared so 

 to me. 



Professor Graham. Yes, it is one-sixth, but that is not 

 very great when you consider that it is winter feed, and they 

 don't get very much fibrous material outside of that except 

 what they get in their beets and mangels. 



Mr. Haven. Do you give your breeding stock any broader 

 ration, any wider ration, in this form ? 



Professor Graham. Yes. The breeders get very little dry 

 mash at this time and are being fed very largely, therefore, 

 on a grain diet, — cracked com and wheat and some oats. 



