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the influence of those roots upon the quahty of butter, but we 

 fed corn to the extent of about one-third of the grain ration, 

 and bran and gluten meal as the balance. We are now feed- 

 ing our cows four to six pounds of snapped corn per head daily, 

 and six to eight pounds of a mixture consisting of equal parts 

 of bran, barley and gluten meal, four to five pounds sheaf oats, 

 and ten pounds of roots, ^and about three or four pounds of hay 

 in addition. We always find it desirable to feed largely of 

 roots, or silage, or other succulent food to keep our cows up iti 

 good flow of milk. Of course, we find some cows that we can- 

 not feed like others, some that we can not feed a.ny corn at all, 

 T^hen we wish to produce milk; we then withhold corn anH feed 

 more largely bran and gluten meal to prevent their developing 

 too much fat. Then again the Holsteins produce so heavily 

 that we are obliged to feed larger amounts of corn to keep 

 them up in flesh, so we are obliged to make a study of the 

 individual cow. :' ^ 



A Member: Do you believe it is possible to change the 

 dairy form by feed alone.^ 



Prof. Curtiss: I think you can destroy the dairy form by 

 feed. I do not think you can develop the dairy form by feed 

 unless you develop a dairy quality with it, because, as I say, I 

 think that the dairy form is the result of a development of 

 dairy qualities rather than dairy excellence being the result of 

 dairy form. Still I do say you can take a dairy calf and fatten 

 it and develop it to some extent into the beef form and it will 

 be an impossibility to get rid of the fat, so in that way we can 

 modify the dairy form. 



The Member: I have fed and bred a great many Jersey 

 ■cows and it is my experience that you can destroy the milking 

 quality of the Jersey cow by feed quicker than any other race 

 of cows that I know anything about by feeding them carbona- 

 cious food. 



Professor Curtiss: That is particularly the case when 

 they are not giving milk. A good many cows are 

 so strongly bred in the dairy characteristics that they 



