596 BOARD OK AGiacui/ruKK. 



Mr. KipiK'v: \\(Hil(l you give tlu' cows all the silage they will eat 

 with the dry fodder? 



Mr. Goodrich: No, I wouldn't do that. I like to have them eat it 

 up clean. I would never feed an animal so it leaves something before 

 it. As I go out in the morning I feed clover hay, for instance. I know 

 just about how much they will eat. I give them plenty of water. Cows 

 differ in their eating capacity. But I am around tlicrc. and as quicic 

 as tlicy stop eating. I take it right away. I never allow any feed lying 

 liefore the cows, and having them loolving doAvn on it and wishing they 

 could eat it, and can't. Their appetites are always better. The best 

 liorseman I know of, a man who has imported a great many horses, 

 uud wlio fattens his horses quickly and at the least possible expense, 

 never leaves, any feed in the stable before his horses, except at meal 

 time. That is the way it should ))o Avith cows. 



j\lr. Doud: Do you feed gluten food? 



Mr. Goodrich: Yes; it is not as good as bran for Ituilding up, Init 

 it has protein in it which makes the cow give milk. 



]\Ir. Uoud: Gluten and corn? 



Mi-. Goodi-ich: (Jlutcn feed and bran go good together. They have 

 corn in {hv silage. That is about all the corn I care to give mine. 



('. 1'. Clingcr, I'iyniouth: Could beet pulp be shipped at .$1.90 here, 

 and lie used for silage to good advantage? 



Mr. (iuodrich: I don't believe it is worth it. As near as I can figure 

 it. it is worth about half as much as corn silage. 



Mr. Knox: Can you put sixteen tons in one bed profitably? 



^Ir. Goodrich: What wonld the^' sell it for? 



Mr. Knox: Al>out ,$12. 



Mr. Goodrich: They don't put sixteen into one bed? 



yiv. Knox: They claim to. 



Mr. Goodrich: They put nine or ten. I went last winter to the fac- 

 tory, and talked with Mr. Hathaway, the superintendent, and he wanted 

 me to get interested in it. so I would advertise it, and induce our dairy- 

 men to buy it. He asked me if I thought the dairymen of Wisconsin 

 would buy it if they could get it for SIO or $12 a ton. I said, "No, it 



