54 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Quarton : My wife says she knows I won't be in 

 Heaven a day before I get into an argument there. (Laugh- 

 ter). I beHeve a bright, intelHgent farmer who knows what the 

 different elements are, will mix his own feed; but if he has to 

 use standard feeds, there are plenty of them manufacturing a 

 good standard feed, gluten for instance is a good feed. But 

 gentlemen, while I am willing to concede that some lawyers are 

 a little bit crooked, that some dairymen put a little bit of water 

 — not in Illinois, Iowa or Wisconsin, but in Kansas and Nebras- 

 ka — into the milk, why would it not apply to the feed manufac- 

 turers ? ( Laughter) . 



Mr. Michels : You cannot feed a balanced ration to all 

 kinds of stock. Higher milkers have got to have a higher pro- 

 tein feeding, and that is the reason. 



Q : When starting in the dairy business, why wouldn't it 

 be practical to have some one come along and mix it for us in- 

 stead of trying to mix it ourselves? 



A: (Mr. Quarton). No, he liad better learn how. 

 (Laughter). Here you have two cows stabled side by side, they 

 are both purebred cows. You find that one of them is putting 

 fat on her back while the other is milking like a race horse and 

 getting poorer. What do we do? Just cut out the corn, she is 

 putting that on -her back and feed that cow one pound of corn 

 and seven of bran and you'll find it won't be long before she'll 

 be milking it off and putting it into the milk pail. It is better 

 for a man to balance his own ration. I use Ajax Flakes, gluten 

 meal, cottonseed meal and oil meal and good old-fashioned corn 

 and oats, and let me tell you it's mighty fine corn and oats, 

 raised on your own farm and on your neighbor's farm, you 

 know just what it is. 



O : How do you know that you are getting the right per- 

 centage in these gluten feeds? 



A: If you know it's a balanced ration for your cows, but 

 if your cows are different you will have to do like the Cf-'eelc did 

 with the bedstead. Every fellow had to lie on that bedstead no 



