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dairymen, we want to know what became of that food — whether 

 she digested it or whether by being made irritable she was thrown 

 into a high fever and threw it off? Do yon people know where 

 it went to? 



Mr. Glover : — In the first place, I would say I cannot tell 

 yon positively where it did go to because we are unable to make 

 any analysis, but she did not gain much in flesh. I do not think 

 she was of nervous temperament. She was probably not capable 

 of digesting and assimilating that feed. She threw it out on 

 the manure pile undigested, but it did not go into milk. 



Mr. Gurler: — I have been intensely interested in this subject 

 and a few months ago I was talking with a gentleman connected 

 with the agricultural college, who had done some of this kind 

 of work and brought out this kind of result. I asked him if it 

 was in the digestion. He replied, " We have done some work 

 that shows it is not in the digestion. It seems to be the ability 

 of the cow to assimilate the food after it is digested with refer- 

 ence to milk." I would like to know the reason for this, but I 

 am not going to struggle over it. Let the professors dig it out 

 for us a little later on. 



Prof. Hayden : — I would simply say that in the testing 

 experiments we made, one cow apparently digested the feed as 

 well as the other, but she did not use it; neither was she a ner- 

 vous cow, not as nervous as the cow that made more milk. 



The President : — We will then answer Mr. Hunt that we 

 do not know. 



Now, gentlemen, I will appoint the nomination committee, 

 which will report at the proper time. 



Nominating Committee. 



E. L. Wilson, Elgin. 

 L. N. Wiggins, Springfield. 

 H. H. Hopkins, Hinckley. 



The President : — I will also call a meeting of the directors 

 and experiment station committee for 1 o'clock this afternoon 



