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Mr. Glover : — It would be rather narrow. I mentioned bran 

 for the effect that it has upon the cow's digestive organs. Oil 

 meal will have more or less the same effect. 



A Delegate : — If you have a cow that will test three per cent 

 can you make a four per cent test from her ? 



Mr. Glover : — No, you cannot. She is a three per cent cow. 

 When a man discovers a means to do that with a cow, he will 

 be a very wealthy man, because the Holstein people are looking 

 for a man that can make their cows, which give a large flow of 

 milk, test equal to Jerseys. Or, in other words, they would 

 like to have the Holstein cows, with their large flow, give 

 Jersey milk. I will ask another question : How would you feed 

 a Holstein cow to make a Jersey of her? 



A Delegate : — What benefit is the cob meal to the dairy 

 cow, or any other cow ? 



Mr. Glover : — The cob meal has but little food value. Its 

 analysis is very low. But a cow's stomach wants bulky food ; 

 the cob meal helps to make the ration more bulky. 



A Delegate: — Wouldn't chopped oat straw be more bene- 

 ficial to the cow than the cob meal? 



Mr. Glover: — Perhaps; but you have the corn cob, and 

 they seem to get a little better results when the cob meal is 

 mixed with the corn than when it is fed alone. But, to make it 

 still better, you can chop some clover hay and mix it with the 

 grain ; or timothy hay, if you have not the clover. The corn 

 meal should be mixed with something to lighten it and to make 

 it more bulky. I know of men who have fed large quantities 

 of corn, and their cows seem to be in good condition, and I could 

 attribute this to no other thing, but that they mixed their corn 

 meal or corn chopped with cut second growth timothy. 



A Delegate : — Is cotton seed meal good feed ? 



Mr. Glover : — Ye3, it is a good feed. It should not be fed 

 in quantities of more than two pounds per cow. 



A Delegate: — What feed has the most protein? 



