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to the aero. Cut worms bad destroyed a 20 acre Held of my corn, and I 

 planted this tlint corn in June. It was in low laud. It had been a swamp. 

 This made a little the nicest silage I ever bad. It was well eared, and 

 lots of stalks and leaves, and a less proportion of woody fiber than any 

 corn I ever had. 



Mr. Lamont: I'eople who produce herds not Avorth what the feed 

 costs, how do you suppose they live? 



ISIr. Goodrich: Some of them have had industrious ancestors that 

 bought their land when it w^as very cheap, and they have inherited 

 it, and now it has gone up in value; and though they do not get much 

 for their work, they live. 



Mr. Lamont: This question has been answered in several of the 

 dairy papers, but none of them seem to come to the same conclusion. 



Mr. Goodrich: Some of these on the chart did not get enough from 

 the creamery to pay for the feed of the cows. They have got beef herds, 

 and they are getting their return in another way. 



Mr. Reamer: They are living on back issues are they not? 



Mr. Goodrich: I guess so. 



Geo. Schlosser: What per cent, is Ihe dry fodder of a corn crop per 

 acre? AVhat per cent, of a crop would you call a fodder crop? 



Mr. Goodrich: Do you mean the per cent, of the weight? 



Mr. Koamer: What is the value of it? You say 40 per cent, is the 

 value. What is the per cent, where you cut it up and husk it. and put it 

 in the shock. 



Mr. Goodrich: It would be loss. In llio first place the stalk, if the 

 corn is well oared, don't weigh (piite ;is imuli as the corn. Then a good 

 share of that is woody, liard fiber, Avhidi cows can not oat; and there 

 isn't over one-half of it they can eat if it is put in a manger where they 

 can't waste it. As it is usually fed out in the barn yard they chase one 

 another over it and do not get more than one-fourth of it. So you see 

 they would not eat over 12% per cent., figuring that way. 



ISIr. .Johnson: One other question. In taking our fodder corn and 

 putting in the shock, about what per cent, has been damaged— what per 

 cent, of the food value Avill yoii lose by the time it cxires up. 



