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will take nine or ten tons of the wot pulir to make one of the dry, won't 

 it?" That is what it takes. He told me so. But the circulars he sends 

 out are different. I don't know about the dry pulp. But of the wet pulp. 

 I have talked with a great many men in the vicinity of the factory. 

 Some of them thought it would be valuable if they did not have to draw 

 it a great ways. Some of them thought it would be worth a dollar a 

 ton. I talked with W. H. Gilbert, who has 800 acres of beets, and who 

 is a large owner of cattle, and he put the pulp in the silo, and he says 

 it is good feed to go with something else as a sort of appetizer, and that 

 it is a succulent feed. There is too little nutriment in it to keep animals 

 on it. 



J. W. Hursh: I have been in the dairy business quite a good many 

 years and I haven't a silo. Now, possibly I might be regarded as a 

 bade number, but it seems to me there is such a variety of conditions it 

 might be possible in some cases that a man would reap as much bene- 

 lit without the silo as with it. Where there is a large range of blue grass 

 pasture, or spear grass, or whatever you may call it— when there is no 

 snow the cows could have access to it, and this furnishes a succulent 

 t(>ed for my herd; and then by supplying corn and oats, w'hich is my 

 principal ration— my herd of cows do very well.* They have averaged 

 me, without the silo — well, I tliiuk, at the close of the year, as near as I 

 can get at it, a little over .i^SO apiece. There are 30 of them. In that 

 number are some heifers. Some don't go so high. So some must gf* 

 urarly $00, without the silo, using as rough feed shredded fodder, clover 

 hay, and straw. They have access to that, which possiblj' compensates; 

 somewhat for the bean ration, but I do not get sufficient profit from that, 

 and relieving me of the cost of putting up the silo— under those circum- 

 stances, would I not be .iustifiiHl in not feeding silage? 



Mr. noodri.li: AVdl, it niiulit. 1><) you live in this State? 



Mv. Ilursh: Yos. 



Mr ( Joodi-icli : In I lii> soulhcrn i>;ir1? 



Ml-. Iliirsh: Xo; n(\-ir Fort Wayne. 



Mr. OJoodricli: Of course your sioclc can not get grass all wiiiicr, 

 (fln they? 



Mr. llursh: ^^■llat I mean to say. at tlie pn'scut time tlu\v do not get 

 a great deal, but with the shredded fodder, the clover hay and oats and 

 corn ground together, they do not shrink to amount to anything, but 

 since the groimd is bare, can't we leave them out all day? 



Mr. Goodrich: What time do your cows come In? 



