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cheap as anything we have in this country and we can supply it 

 readily." 



Another thing, these gentlemen say they mix with their 

 ensilage a certain amount of ground feed, oil-meal or something 

 of that kind. Now, if I have oil-meal and mill stuff I can make 

 the cattle go through the winter in pretty good shape without 

 the ensilage. It reminds me of an experience I had with a man 

 who said that bran was the best feed in the world for hogs; he 

 said he fed nothing but bran, and I asked him how he fed it. 

 He said he just made a swill of it. " And how do you make 

 the swill?" He said, "Well, I just mix it up with milk and 

 they will eat all you feed." Now, it seems to me that is the way 

 with ensilage; it depends a good deal on mixing a lot of other 

 feed with it, and a good deal also depends on the kind of ani- 

 mals you feed it into. I would like to ask Mr. Boyd if the 

 amount of cream he gets from his cows is entirely from the 

 ensilage, or whether his cows.are not entitled to a portion of the 

 credit ? 



Mr. Boyd : '' Of course I attribute a great part of it to the 

 cow, and a little of it to the ensilage, but the point I want to 

 make is this: The president wanted to know something about 

 economy of feeding and I gave my own experience. I feed a 

 small ration of ensilage with two quarts of bran, one quart of 

 corn heart " 



The President: " What is that? " 



Mr. Boyd: "It is the germ of the corn." 



The President: " How do you get that out? " 



Mr. Boyd: "I don't take that out, the hominy mill takes it 

 out. The point I wanted to make is this, and it is a prac- 

 tical one, that from a moderate ration of that kind I was getting 

 one can of cream from three cans of milk. I don't say that it is 

 all attributable to any one of these feeds, but it is the economy 

 of the thing. I never fed before at this season of the year for 

 anything like that small expense. It has cost me twice to pro- 

 duce the same results heretofore from the same cows." 



The President: " That is just the point that I am trying to 



