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a man talking all clay, and I am therefore going to call on Mr. 

 Mason. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Mason: — In feeding those cows that way did you ever 

 test to see if it did not take more grain to produce the same milk? 



Mr. Nowlan : — I cannot say that it does. We feed a great 

 deal heavier than most people, give sixteen to eighteen pounds of 

 feed to the cow. 



Mr. Mason: — When you were grinding the feed? 



Mr. Nowlan : — Yes sir. 



The President: — Why do you grind it? 



Mr. Nowlan : — We do not grind it now. We feed them six- 

 teen, eighteen and sometimes twenty pounds. 



Mr. Mason: — What kind of feed when you ground it? 



Mr. Nowlan : — Ground corn, ground fine as you could get 

 it; oil meal and bran. We used eleven to twelve pounds of 

 ground corn cob, about four pounds of oil meal, rind balance in 

 bran, making up sixteen to twenty pounds. 



Mr. Mason : — What are you feeding now besides corn 1 



Air. Nowlan: — We feed corn fodder; we feed it in racks; 

 the racks are about two feet high, four feet wide, eighteeen feet 

 long; solid bottom, so they cannot waste any. The bran and 

 oil meal we feed in the barn ; we cannot get along without feeding 

 some bran. 



Mr. Mason: — Do your cows milk as well as usual? 



Mr. Nowlan: — Yes sir, on the average, but I would not 

 want to lay it altogether to the feed so far this winter, because 

 it is very marked. We average two pounds more so far than 

 we did last year, but whether this is due to feeding or weather 

 conditions I cannot say, the weather conditions are quite 

 different. 



Mr. Young: — About what per day does the cost average? 



