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many ways of feeding calves, of course. I have only talked about the skim 

 milk part of it. Now, the use of oil meal, and the cooking of oats, all those 

 sort of things can be studied out, and the value of them reached. We keep our 

 calves up. We do not let a poor weak little thing stand out and fight the frost 

 and expect good results. 



Question. Have you made any experiments as to the value of grass as pas- 

 ture for calves, as compared with hay for your calves ? My own experience is, 

 that better calves are made on hay than on grass. 



Answer. I don't know. I cannot give anything definite. I cannot see any 

 advantage in giving calves grass in the summer, but I cannot give anything 

 definite. I am paid for giving something definite, and so I do not want to talk 

 about it. We have lost some calves that ran out and drank milk and all that. 



The Chairman : I want to have Professor Henry tell us about some 

 experiments he was making last Summer when I was up there, to show the 

 comparative value of corn and middlings, and the combination of corn and 

 middlings in feeding some shoats. 



Answer. I am sorry to say I cannot give the figures, only the conclusion 

 of my experiments in feeding a number of lots of pigs was that our farmers do 

 not appreciate the value of shorts. I mean now, the new process Minneapolis 

 shorts, as quoted, new process milling shorts. 



The Chairman : I read the figures given by the Missouri Agricultural 

 experimental station, and I remember that they claimed that they produced 

 more pork from a ton of wheat shorts, from middlings, than they did from a 

 ton of corn meal. I believe we do not realize the feeding value of this food. 

 It differs from bran. It is just about half way between the old style of fine 

 middlings and the bran. It is coarse middlings or shorts. It is the next grade 

 to bran. 



Music — Belvidere Quartette. 



Convention adjourned to meet at 9 o'clock next morning. 



Convention met pursuant to adjournment at 9 o'clock, December 10, 1885. 



APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 



On Resolutions.— C. F. Dexter, O. S. Cohoon and H. W. Avery. 



On Nominations. — R. Lespinasse, W. R. Hostetter, D. C. Woolverton. 



On Dairy Implements. — Love joy Johnson, E. L. Lawrence, E. E. Chester. 



To Attend Meeting of State Board of Agriculture.— C. C. Buell, 

 Lovejoy Johnson and H. B. Gurler. 



To Formulate Sentiments of Convention. — C. C. Buell, W. H. Hintze 

 and L. M. Potter. 



To Confer with United States Commissioner of Agriculture in 

 Regard to Foreign Butter Markets.— R. P. McGlincy, E. E. Chester and 

 John Boyd. 



HAS THE BOTTOM DROPPED OUT OF THE DAIRY BUSINESS? 



BY LOVEJOY JOHNSON, STILLMAN VALLEY, ILL. 



Your Directors in making appointments have usually shown rare sagacity, 

 but in this case there is a strong suspicion that a majority of the Board, being 

 managers or owners of creameries, are looking for some recipe to modify and 



