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continue using it, and that if. all persons that 

 had used milk from tuberculous cows had died 

 with consumption we would have a much 

 smaller population than we now have. I be- 

 lieve that diseased cows should be killed when 

 discovered, but I do not believe that a large 

 percentage of our cows are afflicted with this 

 disease. 



Amount of silage fed. — I feed what corn 

 silage my cows will eat. I also feed some hay 

 once per day as a rule. I find my cows thrive 

 well and do profitable work when they have 

 only the corn silage for coarse food. The 

 amount of ground feed to be given in connec- 

 tion with the silage depends on the amount of 

 corn in the silage. When the silage is made 

 from corn that would husk forty bushels per 

 acre I feed to mature cows five pounds of wheat 

 shorts and five pounds of grano-gluten feed. 

 The latter is a kiln-dried, whisky-distillery feed 

 which has been subjected to a heat that kills 

 all germs of ferment. My cows invariably 

 shrink in the flow of milk and in total fat pro- 

 duced when I change from corn silage to hay, 

 and the cost of feeding the cows just as surely 

 increases. 



Can we aflford to feed oats? — Oats are an ex- 

 cellent feed for cows, but a,s a rule it pays me 

 to sell my oats and buy shorts and bran. When 

 oats are comparatively low priced I grind them 



