38 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Wright: What kind of beets would you raise for food? 



A. Beets are rather expensive to raise. They are, however, good 

 milk food, and if I were to raise any, I would choose the mangle. 



Q. I took my milk to the condensing factory. I found I could not 

 afford to take my milk there, with the restrictions, and make a living, 

 and I did not propose to live to be 60 or 70 years old, and at the end of 

 my life be where I was when I was 20 years old. I was driven from the 

 condensing factory. I commenced selecting my cows and experimenting 

 on feed, and have been at it the last eight or nine years, and beets were 

 very satisfactory to me. If I had no beets I would feed oil meal, but a& 

 I have beets, I use them. 



A. What grain do you use ? 



Q. Corn on the farm and bran I get. Would beets furnish protein? 



A. Not very much. 



Q, Any value in the cob for feed? 



A. A very little, but not enough to pay for what a cow gets out of it. 

 It is a good as a loosener, if you feed corn meal. 



Q. Do you consider cob of any value for grinding? 



A. Not if you have bran. 



Prof. Henry statement (Wisconsin Experiment Station) was that 

 corn and cob meal is worth as much as a 100 to feed as clear corn meal 

 to cattle. 



A. To cows or steers? 



Q. Either one, because of its better digestion and loosening up 

 more. 



A. I don't think so, if we feed bran with corn meal. 



Q. I have been in the habit of grinding the corn in the cob. My 

 ration is this: I commence first one-half of corn and oats ground with 

 the cob; with two bags of that put one bag of meal; about 11 pounds of 

 that a day, and the ration of beets once a day, and as much corn fodder 

 through the day as they want, and at night a ration of this: Good hajr 

 cut early. 



Q. Are yours large cows? 



