STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. '^97 



have said, because if you do not, the cows will eat a small portion of it, 

 but when it is sowed thickly, they will eat practically all of it. 



Mr. Do you put water in the silo? 



Mr. Haecker — We do if there has been a drouth, or for any cause 

 the fodder corn when it is put into the silo is rather dry, we put in 

 water. 



Mr. Patterson — ^I use common field corn, eighty bushels to the 

 acre. Do you think I lose anything by using that kind of corn for 

 ensilage? Do you think I get as much good feed out of corn that is 

 like feeding corn as out of fodder corn ? 



Mr. Haecker— How much per acre in weight? 



Mr. Patterson — -From lo to 20 tons. 



Mr. Haecker — Ours averages 15. It runs very near that and prob- 

 ably does not vary a half ton one way or the other. Your statement 

 indicates that conditions here are different. We cannot get any such 

 yield as that. If we get 30, 40 or 50 bushels per acre we do very well. 



Mr. Glover — Through this corn country, fields sowed like those at 

 Minnesota will lodge and it makes it impossible to cut it with the corn 

 cutter. 



Mr. Haecker — I am glad to have that statement made, because I do 

 not want to say anything misleading, and I am at a disadvantage in 

 living so far north, where the conditions are so different, especially with 

 the corn plant, and very likely my method of plantino- might not be the 

 best method here. 



Mr. Mallory — Do you put your cow on full feed when you take her 

 calf away? 



Mr. Haecker — I put her on half feed, because it takes 4 weeks to 

 bring her to full flow. 



Mr. Miller — What kind of a cow is a dairy cow? 



Mr. Plaecker- — A cow that is a large feeder and that does not con- 

 vert her feed into meat,, but into milk. 



Somebody asks what kind of hay I feed. I feed prairie hay ; have 

 not used any other kind for years. 



FEEDING THE CALF. 



Mr. Mallory — Plow do you feed a calf after taking it away from 

 its mother ? 



Mr. Haecker — I make it wait 24 hours for its next meal. It makes 

 one feel bad to hear the little fellow bellow ; but 24 hours after that I 

 go to the calf with about 3 pounds of milk in a bowl, and it does not ask 

 for any finger or teat or anything of the kind. 



