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raise corn, and we have learned very little about it since, except to use it 

 to make fat meat animals. The eastern dairyman made milk from grass 

 and hay for winter maintenance. He came west and raised corn instead 

 of grass and hay and feeds it because it is handier. He keeps no record 

 of pounds of milk per cow or per cent of fat in milk, so is beyond the help 

 of students of the feed problem. The weight of milk and per cent of fat 

 is as essential to rational feeding as the weight of forage and grain. A 

 ration cannot be balanced without the scales and test by Babcock or 

 churn. 



Two cows stand in adjacent sta.'ls, each weigh 1000 pounds, have been 

 fresh about the same time, are registered A. J. C. C. One gives 10 pounds 

 milk per day, testing 8 per cent, the other 20 pounds, testing 4 per cent. 

 Without these weights and tests who could balance a ration or feed them 

 intelligently V 



To sum up this talk let me say, use the highest quality beef and 

 dairy cattle you can get; feed and breed tnem better. Feed a ration 

 balanced to their capacity and production (and a little more for improve- 

 ment), be it a ratio of 1 to 1 or 1 to 20. Grow forage with a high per cent 

 of protein; produce meat and milk for food not tallow and oleo. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Long: I want to make an exception to one thing Mr. Davis said, 

 and that is that this tallow out of these animals went to make oleomar- 

 garine. The manufacture of ole consists of oleo oil; they can't make 

 oleomargarine out of taltow. I have a paper here — 



A. I think about 15 per cent of suet enters into the composition of 

 oleomargarine. 



By the ^resident: Bring that piece of paper up front here Mr. Long 

 and read it. 



Mr. Long; Present cost of oleomargarine, January) 18, 1901: This 

 is taken trom Hoard's Dairyman. 



Cost: Shows proportion used for each hundred pounds. 



