32 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A. That depends somewhat upon the supply of carbo-hydrates. If 

 you have corn you can secure the carbo-hydrates more cheaply with 

 that, and you should buy the meal that furnishes the protein the cheap- 

 est. 



Mr. Monrad: Don't that depend on the price? 



A. At present prices we get portein at less cost in gluten meal than 

 we do in gluten feed, and carbo-hydrates cost less in corn than they do in 

 gluten feed. Prices in our concentrated milk feeds are being more and 

 more guaged by the amount of pratein they contain. 



Q. It seems that the protein food contains is all all that is talked 

 about. 



A. They are on the right track, and a farmer ought to be willing 

 to pay according to the protein. There is no farmer in Illinois who can- 

 not provide carbo-hydrates enough from his farm, and all he needs Is 

 gluten meal to balance the ration, and enough bran to loosen it. It 

 might answer to feed gluten meal and corn meal if the mixed meal is 

 fed with the roughage, but without such mixing I would not advise 

 feeding a ration composed wholly of corn meal and gluten meal. And 

 there is another point. We are feeding our cows in the Elgin district 

 the corn planted for roughage and corn for corbo-hydrates and buying 

 gluten meal for the protein, and we are not getting enough bone mak- 

 ing material in the milk to make good calves and keep our cows in good 

 condition, and in order to have the cows bring good, strong calves it will 

 be necessary to feed some ration that contains more ash, the bone mak- 

 ing material. 



Mr. Judd: Along this Fox River here, they are not allowed to feed 

 any linseed meal or gluten meal. What can you substitute to make a 

 balanced ration? 



A. I would tell those condensing people they could not have my 

 milk. You farmers should get together and market your own milk. 



Q. What did you say about that mixture? 



A. I make a mixture ofi five pounds or parts of brau, five pounds of 

 corn, and two parts of gluten meal. I am not feeding my cows twelve 



