94 Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the 



Our corn is all in the ensilage and we think we get about all the 

 corn we need in that way. 



Q. Feed ensilage onl}' once a day? A. Only once a day, 

 in the morning directly after milking. 



Q. Feed cotton seed meal separately ? A. Yes. 



O. How do you feed it? A. Different cows, different 

 amounts, from one to two quarts per cow. 



O. Do you have any trouble in g-etting your cows to eat 

 cotton seed? A. Never had any trouble. 



Q. Do you feed cotton seed clear? A. Yes sir. We know 

 we get better returns for our money with cotton seed meal thaiT 

 anything else. 



O. Are you ever troubled with garget? A. No, never had 

 a gargety cow in our whole 44, never had a gargety cow un- 

 less from the result of an injury. I do not know as it is really 

 the best way for every one to feed as we do but it works very 

 satisfactorily with us. 



Q. Wouldn't you like it better to feed your cotton seed on 

 the ensilage? A. We have tried that but the cows look the 

 ensilage over to get the corn out and sometimes throw the meal 

 out so that it was wasted, and we have fed it clear without any 

 bad results from feeding it in that way. There is no objection to 

 feeding it with the ensilage if the manger is fixed so that we 

 can get it out so that each cow gets its proportion. 



Q. How much ensilage do you feed per cow? A. Feed a 

 bushel basket full of ensilage to a cow once a day. 



Q. Do you raise your own cows ? A. Yes, sir, there is 

 not a cow on the farm that we have not raised. 



Q. About how many years do you keep them? A. We 

 sell a great many cows each year and at dift'erent ages, but 

 usually we have sold them anywhere from six to eight years old. 



Q. Do you think a cow would stand that feed from eight 

 to ten years? A. V/e have one cow 13 years old, the best 

 cow in our herd. She has had that feed, always had a little 

 extra besides, and she is sound in every particular to-day as 

 she ever was. 



Q. What breeds of cows do you have? A. Jerseys. 



Q. Are you troubled with abortion? A. Have not been 

 for seven or eight years, eight years ago it went through our 

 herd. 



Q. What did you do to prevent it, anything? A. Well, 

 I do not know whether we did or not. I know we tried different 

 things and finally we tried the Kow cure and we finally got rid of 

 the trouble. The Kow cure was a great help to us. 



Q. Do you still use that in your dairy? A. I do not. 

 We have some but we have not fed any for years to our cows. 



