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degrees, — and they had the privilege of drinking in the barn, 

 where it was warm. The cows were comfortalile, they were 

 at rest, and under these conditions tlie $10 hay kept them in 

 foir condition, at a cost of ten cents per day. 



Last year the writer advised those accustomed to feeding 

 salt and meadow hay with the result of i)oor stock in the 

 spring, to buy cotton seed meal, to help utilize the carbo-hy- 

 drates in the poor hay. But after another year's experience 

 and observation, my first advice to all such is, keep your 

 stock warm, and give them all the good water that they need, 

 and see if the quality of 3'our hay is not good enough to keep 

 animals that are comfortable, and at rest, in fair condition. 



A knowledge of the comparative value of clear corn meal 

 to cob meal, and also of the difference in feeding value of our 

 round home grown corn and the flat Southern and Western 

 corn, is very important at this time, to help farmers settle the 

 question whether it is best to grow corn. German experi- 

 ments show that 71 per cent, of clear corn meal is digestible, 

 and that 52 per cent, of corn cobs is digestible matter. If 

 we allow 74 lbs. of ears to give 56 lbs. of clear corn, 100 

 lbs. of ears will give 75.6 lbs. of corn, 24.4 lbs. of cobs; 

 53.6 lbs. of the corn, and 12.6 lbs. of the cobs are digestible, 

 making 66.2 lbs. of digestible matter in cob meal, to 71 lbs. 

 in clear meal, or about as 13 to 14. It is well to bear in mind 

 that most of the digestible part of corn cobs is carbo-hydrates, 

 and that to get the full value of cob meal it needs to be fed 

 with other food rich in albuminoids. 



Many are ready to admit that 100 lbs. of cob meal, made 

 from round corn, is worth as much to feed as 100 lbs. of clear 

 meal made from flat corn. Some, after chaniifinof from one to 

 the other, back and forth for several times, claim that the 

 same quantity by measure of cob meal is worth as much as 

 the clear meal bought at our mills. There are 64 qts. in 100 

 lbs. of clear meal, and 86 qts. in 100 lbs. of cob meal. If a 

 quart of our Northern cob meal has the same feeding value 

 that a quart of clear Western meal has, then at the present 



