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since then we have learned more about them. I would not advise 

 a man to feed his cows on cob meal alone or to feed that entirely to 

 the same animal, although I have heard of cases where animals 

 have been brought through the winter on nothing at all but corn- 

 cobs. 



Do not understand me as condemning shredded stover. It is a 

 good thing, which can be fed to advantage, but I believe often the 

 cows are compelled to eat more than is good for them. I may be 

 wrong in this. Shredded stover must be shredded for feed in the 

 stable. I do not believe that the cows ought to be compelled to eat 

 much of that portion which they would not eat if they were fed the 

 whole stalk. 



MR. KxiHLER: I was not here during all this talk in regard to 

 silos, but up in our country we have had early frosts which has 

 caused a great deal of silage to be badly frozen. Now, in your opin- 

 ion, how much loss is in that? 



PROF. MAIRS: I do not know and I do not know whether any- 

 body knows or not. It would be deteriorated some; the quality of 

 the corn has been deteriorated some, since it is dry it will not keep 

 so well in the soil, but if thoroughly wet the keeping qualities will 

 be increased.somewhat. I don't know how much it has deteriorated. 

 Maybe Prof. Cooke can tell us more about that. 



MR. SEXTON : My experience has been that the best possible way 

 to preserve our ensilage corn, if we get it cut by a frost, is to put it 

 into the silo as soon as possible. We have had experience along 

 that line some years^, and have found that the frosty ensilage corn 

 was very little damaged if we put it into the silo at once; we could 

 tell more particularly about it in this way, that part of it only was 

 frozen, and we never could see any difference in the feeding qualities 

 of that silage. 



I want to ask the gentleman a question in reference to turning 

 cows into the yard on cold blustering days. Down in our part of the 

 State where we are furnishing milk to the city, and want to keep up 

 about an even quantity each day for our milkmen as they require 

 it — I want to ask why we should turn our cows into the yard to give 

 them exercise, no matter w^hether it is blustering or not, when we 

 know by actual tests that those animals will shrink in milk. If we 

 leave them in the yard for a few hours even, they will shrink from 

 one to three pints each. Now I want to know why we should give 

 them exercise when we have that experience. 



PROF. MA IRS: If that is the actual result, they should not be 

 turned out there. Cows need exercise, but where that is the actual 

 result, under such circumstances I should not advise it. We started 



