580 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 



A. I might start an argument here — I have good ones — any good 

 beef type. I found this true, the Hereford or Angus — it is prob- 

 ably more true of the Angus — you may have them ready for market 

 by the first of July, and you can go on with them and keep them 

 going and they will be ready for market at the International, and 

 they will make gains all the time. I don't know whether that is 

 true with other cattle or not, but I rather think it is, but the Short- 

 horn wants to get its growth and then go on and finish it up. 



Q. I would like to ask Mr. Gunn if he ever had any experience 

 in feeding silage with grass to fat cattle? 



A. Not with grass ; I shut the silage off. They shut it off them- 

 selves if you get them on full feed of grass, I find they shut it ofif 

 themselves. 



Q. Don't you think it is more economical to have smaller pas- 

 ture and feed silage in connection with it? 



A. If we had a small pasture they would feed it down closer. 

 My pastures are large, and they have all that they want to eat. 



Q. I think the time is coming when silage is so much cheaper 

 than pasture that a man can't afiford to have large pastures, and 

 it gives them a variety of feeds. 



A. I don't think that silage is a very cheap feed. It costs me 

 mighty near a dollar a ton — at least it did the last couple of years 

 — to put it in the silo, and you figure your corn is sixty bushels to 

 the acre, and you may get eight tons to the acre. I can't consider 

 that a very cheap feed, 



Q. Do you have blue grass pasture? 



A. Yes. 



Q. It is not suitable for farming? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Don't you think a sixty-bushel corn crop will produce a little 

 more than eight tons of silage? 



A. No, I don't think so. This year it would not. I put in corn 

 this year that I don't believe made over seven tons to the acre, and 

 I know it would have made sixty bushels — not many leaves on it, 

 but it was big ears. Of course, the corn I put in was the second 

 crop — that is, it had been sodded the year before and this was the 

 second crop. I don't believe it would make over that, because I 

 put sixty acres of corn (you can figure it out for yourself) in one 

 silo — one silo is 20x40, the other is 18x36 and the other one is about 

 19x40. I just figured that I didn't get much over seven tons in 

 there by the time it has settled down. The first one settled down 



