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the classification is different. The tide has different effects. 



and all I can give you is the general result. 



Mr. Little. I would like to ask if there is value in 

 feeding apples? 



Professor Whitcher. Yes, there is no question but what 

 there is value in apples. It has been found that apple 

 pomace in many cases has been almost as valuable as corn 

 ensilage for feeding. There is a limit beyond which you 

 cannot go in feeding. If you undertook to feed cattle wholly 

 on corn meal, you would make a failure of it. If you under- 

 took to live on mince pie or candy, you would make a failure 

 of it. The thing to do is to feed a suitable variety, and in 

 feeding apples you must not go to the extreme. I had a 

 letter a short time ago from a creamery man, who asked if 

 I thought feeding apples made a bitter taste in butter. If a 

 cow feeds on apples until she has got herself in a physiologi- 

 cal condition that borders on disease, she cannot produce 

 good milk ; but if she is fed a reasonable amount of apples 

 and a reasonable amount of ensilage, roots and other things 

 that go to make a good ration, there is no dilEculty. Apples 

 are good to some extent, and, judging from the effect of 

 apple pomace as ensilage, I should say that their feeding 

 value would be pretty well up with the feeding value of 

 roots. 



Mr. Little. Does the lecturer think that the value of 

 salt hay can be as well shown by a comparison with English 

 hay as by a comparison with some other food articles ? 



Professor Whitcher. Yes, I think I can get the best 

 results in that way. 



Mr. Morrill. I have seen two cows taken from pasture 

 six weeks ago and fed on pure salt hay, and nothing but 

 that, with what water they wanted, and they are looking 

 well and gaining every day. Where they have the right 

 quality of salt hay, they will eat it up clean. 



Professor Whitcher. This matter is a relative one. 

 They may have been taken from a pasture of such a poor 

 nature that they made a gain. I am aware that different 

 people get different results, and there is a difference in the 

 value of salt hay, just as there is a difference in rations of 

 other kinds. One man might get results that another man 



