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enough above the market price to yield a good profit. To the 

 second class belongs the man who is not so favorably located, 

 is obliged to sell his product at market price, but is growing 

 most of his own feed and thereby saving, a great outlay of 

 money. Outside of these two classes mentioned is a third class, 

 and I regret to say much the largest, to which belongs the 

 men who are selling their product at market prices and buying 

 most of their feed. The men who belong to this last class are 

 the ones who most need to improve their methods because 

 they are making little or no money at the business unless they 

 are fortunate enough to have cows far above the average as 

 producers. These men cannot perhaps easily change their 

 location or obtain a better market, but what they can do in 

 most instances is to grow more feed. Every dairyman should 

 have a silo well filled with mature corn. There is nothing that 

 we can grow that will furnish so much digestible dry matter 

 to the acre at the same cost. It will grow on almost all kinds of 

 soils and does not need heavy fertilization and when preserved 

 in a silo it is not an expensive crop to handle and furnishes 

 succulent food at low cost. It is important that the corn be 

 well matured and carry a plentiful supply of well glazed ears. 

 Green corn stalks carry much sugar in their juices which fer- 

 ments and makes a much sourer and less nutritious silage than 

 mature stalks and corn in which the sugar has changed to 

 starch and remains permanent in the silo. Experiments have 

 been made showing that 100 lbs. of good well matured corn 

 silage contains as much nutrients as 180 lbs. of silage made 

 from green southern corn stalks. 



Clover should be grown much more extensively than it com- 

 monly is for hay. Early cut, well cured clover has nearly the 

 same feed value as wheat bran, which costs $26 per ton, and 

 aside from furnishing a nutritious fodder leaves the soil in 

 better condition than it found it. We are inclined to mourn 

 because we cannot grow alfalfa but I am inclined to believe 

 that in our short summer season clover is more valuable for 

 us. Hungarian can be easily grown and produces a large 

 amount of green fodder late in the season when the pastures 

 are getting short. Mixed early cut English hay is also good 



