96 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



With a table of this kind if you have the price of a certain 

 food, you have the comparative value of all the other food 

 stuffs. We will say that if bran is worth |6 per ton, upon 

 that basis we find that barley is worth only 11 cents per 

 bushel. Putting the bran at the figure you pay, say |10, bar- 

 ley for feeding purposes is only worth 18 cents a bushel. Now, 

 if your barley is worth 36 cents per bushel, then the bran is 

 worth |20 a ton, and if your can buy bran for less, it will 

 be economy to sell your barley and buy bran. When bran is 

 worth |10 a ton, corn is worth 21 cents a bushel, so that 

 when ever corn is more than 21 cents a bushel, bran being |10, 

 the proper thing to do, is to sell your corn and buy bran, and 

 even if the corn is not valued at quite 21 cents, it will pay you 

 to sell corn and buy bran to balance up with the corn that 

 you have. 



We will next take the item of oats. If the bran is worth 

 $10 a ton, oats is worth 12 cents a bushel for feeding. If oats 

 is worth 18 cents a bushel, then bran is worth |15 for feeding 

 purposes. When bran is worth |10 a ton, peas are worth 47 

 cents a bushel. There you have valuable feed and especially 

 in the corn country. When bran is worth |10 a ton for a dairy 

 cow, shorts is worth |8 a ton. It is only recently that you 

 have paid more for shorts than for bran. The shorts will have 

 a greater tendency to form flesh and shrink the cow's milk, 

 than bran. I speak of commercial shorts as we buy them 

 by the car-load. Farmers are apt to buy what they call 

 heavy bran; that is, bran containing a great deal of shorts. 

 This is a mistake; the whiter the bran the poorer it is, the 

 lighter the bran, the better for food, because the shorts in bran 

 is composed chiefly of starch, simply the heat-producing 

 element which is not good for milk. 



Mr. Hostetter: Can you feed bran and shorts together? 



Prof. Haecker: Why should you? You can mix milk 

 and water together, but why? When bran is worth |10 a ton, 

 wheat for feeding purposes is worth 25 cents a bushel, cotton 

 seed meal |25 a ton, almost two and one-half times as much 

 as bran. 



Mr. Judd: If they were equal in value, which would you 

 prefer ? 



