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Mr. Glover: — Figure what that ration costs you to get a 

 pound of butter fat. Your oil meal costs a cent and a half a 

 pound at the present time, and that is six cents for oil meal. 



Mr. Nowlan : — I could not tell just exactly at this time 

 what that ration costs. The ration on ground corn costs us 

 for a set of five cows that produced on an average of 337 pounds 

 of butter last year, $40.70. 



Mr. Glover: — Is it not safe to figure that your ration, of 

 grain alone is costing you 16 cents per day, plus whatever your 

 roughage is? 



Mr. Nowlan : — Certainly, but by having the hogs running 

 after the cows we are having practically no waste. 



Mr. Glover: — I wish I could agree with you in your system 

 of feeding, but I cannot. 



Member: — How much oil meal do you feed on the average? 



Mr. Nowlan : — On the average, I do not suppose we feed 

 over \y 2 or perhaps 2 pounds. 



Mr. Van Norman : — Do your cows gain in weight on that 

 ration ? 



Mr. Nowlan: — Yes sir; we can sell those cows. Those 

 with a preponderance of beef blood are usually in a good ship- 

 ping condition by the time they are dry. 



Mr. Glover: — There is a man here with a herd of cows that 

 is producing on an average of 300 pounds of butter a year. I 

 want him to state the amount of grain he is giving those cows. 

 Mr. Young has been testing his cows and I want him to give 

 his experience. 



Mr. Young : — For the past two years we have been feed- 

 ing about thirty pounds of ensilage, or a trifle over, one hundred 

 pounds to three head ; about five or six pounds of Manhatten 

 gluten meal, and probably seven pounds of clover hay and 

 shredded corn fodder, whatever they want, the amount was 

 not curtailed at all. That has been their ration for most of the 

 time; at times, when short of gluten feed, I have fed bran. 



