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Mr. Glover: — They will do well for a time; but I would 

 rather add 4 pounds of bran, or 2 pounds of bran and 1 pound of 

 Buffalo gluten feed. 



Delegate : — Three or four weeks ago, I was feeding bran, 

 and I dropped the bran out, and I cannot see very much differ- 

 ence. 



Mr. Glover : — We cannot always notice a change imme- 

 diately after a change of feed. But let me finish that ration, for 

 a cow producing a pound of butter fat a day, weighing 1,000 

 pounds: 4 pounds of bran, 3 pounds of corn and cob meal, 1 

 pound of oil meal, and all of the pea hay and corn stover she 

 will eat up clean. Now, coming back to the question of dropping 

 out feed. A cow sometimes will draw upon her system for 

 protein. As you will hear the report when Prof. Haecker comes. 

 He has been feeding cows on a very wide ration for four years, 

 and they seemingly got along on that wide ration just as well as 

 the cows that were fed on a narrow one until this winter, and 

 every one of those cows that was fed on the wide ration, which 

 means, containing but little protein and lots of carbohydrates, 

 is very poor ; so poor that the bones show through the hides very 

 plainly, and he says, " It makes my heart ache to continue that 

 treatment." It has taken four years to demonstrate that a cow 

 must have a certain amount of protein to do normal work and 

 to keep herself in healthy condition. You must carefully nourish 

 that cow's body, because she is growing a foetus, and that is 

 largely protein ; and the strength of the coming progeny depends 

 somewhat upon the character of the food you give the cow now. 

 Results will come from dropping a certain kind of food. 



A Delegate : — Did you mean the corn fodder that he has 

 should be fed with the cow peas? 



Mr. Glover : — Yes, feed all the corn stover that will be con- 

 sumed without waste. 



A Delegate: — Wouldn't it be a very narrow ration if he left 

 out the stover and fed only cow peas? 



