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The composition of a number of these feeds 

 is given further on in this chapter. The wet 

 foqds are undesirable for summer use, unless 

 fed when perfectly sweet, as they soon become 

 badly fermented and offensive. If the dry pro- 

 duct can be bought it is much preferable. The 

 writer has fed wet starch" feed, and when swe^ 

 it is eaten with relish, but the same product 

 freed of excess moisture he found to be more 

 satisfactory. He has also used gluten and 

 hominy feeds. The former is high in protein 

 and serves as a valuable substance to balance 

 up with carbonaceous material, such as corn- 

 meal. Hominy feed contains much less pro- 

 tein, but it is one of the most satisfactory corn 

 by-products that the writer has ever used in 

 feeding cattle. Gluten feed is not relished by 

 cattle, in the author's experience, as generally 

 as the hominy feed. 



Testimony from users of by-products.— 

 Four well-known feeders of dairy cattle con- 

 tribute articles on feeding by-products of corn 

 to the Breeder's Gazette of Sept. 5, 1894. The 

 following quotations from three of these arti- 

 cles are of interest. 



Prof. W. H. Caldwell, who had charge of the 

 Guernsey herd in the dairy cattle tests at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, says: I have 

 used gluten meal, both the Chicago and Buffalo 

 brands. To horses it has only been fed when I 



