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dollars a ton more for this, if there was a difference of three 

 dollars a ton between middlings and shorts. If I was feeding 

 a very small amount of coarse fodder and a very large amount 

 of srain, I would feed some shorts where otherwise I should 

 not ; but in any system of feeding which I am talking aljout 

 to-day, that is, coarse fodders, I should not use shorts, I 

 think, or bran. I should not use those, because I think at 

 the price they sell for they are not the most profitable food. 



Mr. LuNT. With labor costing twenty-five dollars per 

 month and board, and when salt hay can be put in the barn 

 for five dollars a ton, would you advise a farmer to raise 

 ensilage on land worth one hundred dollars an acre, with 

 the same labor? 



Professor Whitcher. If a man has land that is worth 

 one hundred dollars an acre, he has got to do something 

 with it. He does not want simply to look at it. He has 

 got to get an income out of it. Perhaps in most cases a man 

 would be raising hay for the market ; but I think the system 

 of farminoj which takes in a certain amount of cultivated 

 crops is the best. It may be a man who is close to a city 

 can use that land with greater profit than in raising ensilage 

 by raising certain things that there is a call for locally ; 

 but for the general run of people I should say he could 

 afford to raise corn on that land in rotation. He gets two 

 advantages : he tills his soil, and gets it into condition to 

 raise hay. 



Question. Whether those rations are for the production 

 of milk or for cream, in case we raised milk and did not 

 carry the milk to the creamery ? 



Professor Whitcher. Well, it is six of one and half a 

 dozen of the other. When you feed a well-balanced ration 

 to any given cow, she will give you a normal supply of milk, 

 and as to that milk, it does not make much difference whether 

 you feed one or the other of these rations ; if she is a cow 

 that is going to give milk that has four per cent of fat in it, 

 she will give that quality of milk, and any natural system 

 of feeding would not affect that result. 



Question. Do you find any difl'erence in wetting the 

 shorts or feeding dry grain? 



Professor Whitcher. My experience for the last ten 



