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Q. Should the roughage be better? 



A. Yes sir, we use all the higher amount of protein or roughage and 

 feed all the roughage they will eat, and then give them grain after her 

 first calf. 



Q. Then it don't make so much difference what you feed them as 

 long as you feed enough? 



A. She will just put in circu lation what you feed her and store in 

 her body or make milk. 



Q. He thought it would give good milk no matter what you fed her? 



A. No, I don't know about that. 



Q. Prof. Haecker told us about that and I believe he is right and I 

 believe a whole lot of us have gone dead blind. 



By the President: Just explain yourself. 



Mr. Davis: I will explain myself later on. We must not teach as we 

 have been teaching on this feeding question. 



Mr. Glover: May be 1 can clear up this. I have worked in the Min- 

 nesota Experiment Station with Prof. Haecker, and the whole tone of his 

 bulletins, and his last work is that we have been feeding too much pro- 

 tein to the average cow. We have been feeding protein to cows, enough 

 of it to a cow that should make 400 pounds of butter a year, and instead 

 of making that amount the cow is only making probably 150 a year. 

 Therefore we are feeding too much protein. She did not have the capac- 

 ity for that amount of protein. The cow that is making 400 pounds of 

 butter in a year naturally needs more protein than the cow that is only 

 making 100 pounds a year. That is the object of Prcf. Haecker's bulletin. 

 The cow that is making 350 pounds of butter only requires iy 2 pounds pro- 

 tein a day, but the cow that is makiug 500 pounds of butter requires 2 1 / £ 

 pounds protein a day, and a cow that is only making 150 or so pounds of 

 butter requires less than iy 2 pounds of protein. That I think is the ob- 

 ject of this bulletin. 



Mr. Davis: If she is a beef animal, she will put that protein on her 

 back. So don't feed a beef animal too much protein. 



