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go in the stable, before the ventilators were added, my legs and feet 

 would be cold; but the ventilators did their work, and it is all right now; 

 you can't put your hand on a cake of ice and keep yourself warm. These 

 ventilators give us a fine temperature; when you can't light a match on 

 the side of your stall your barn is not perfect. 



I have found ensilage to be the cheapest food I could feed, and that 

 taking care of the corn in that way was really the cheapest. Plant it as 

 you do your ordinary corn — let it mature until it begins to glaze, and then 

 put it into your silo. 



You can grow more tons to the acre if you sow it on rich land and cut 

 it without an ear on it, but one bushel grown the way I have described 

 is worth three of the other. It is bulky any way, and you can't afford to 

 put up three bushels to only get one. 



Q: How do you raise it? 



Mr. Rindge: In hills, the same as other corn. It may do well enough 

 in drills, but it is sure if you put it in hills. You are sure to get all 

 nature can put into it. 



Q: What variety do you use? 



Mr. Rindge: I would recommend any variety that will ripen in the 

 place where you live. I have found that straw cut up and mixed with 

 grain makes a nice food. I have found that I could get a great deal out 

 of straw such years as this, when I couldn't afford to buy hay. 



There is one thing I haven't heard mentioned, and that is something 

 I have learned that when you have a large cow as a milch cow you have 

 to support a large frame that don't do you any good. And then as 

 regards feeding, they tell us to feed lots of grain, and don't be afraid to 

 feed it. I say, feed lots of grain and don't be afraid to feed it until the 

 cow begins to lay on fat. You must stop then, or you will get a fat cow 

 and little milk. 



I am in hopes that our farmers will not leave their manure to leech 

 away. On a good sized farm your manures are worth |300 a year, and 

 yet it is allowed to waste, until there isn't |100 worth. Business men 

 learn these things, because if they don't learn them, the sheriff has a case 

 in a little while. The manufacturer learns these, facts, because if he 

 doesn't manufacture as cheap as the other fellow, the other manufacturer 

 gets away from him. 



Now it is really a pity that it wasn't so among the farmers, that they 

 would either have to do their work right, or make place for some one else. 

 But such is not the fact. They will stay on a little farm and eke out a 

 miserable existence, while they might as well be working 300 days in the 

 year and have the work accomplish something, if they would only try 

 and see what they can do. The proper time for a man to dairy is in the 

 winter time, and not have a lot of cows taking a lot of time, when the 

 press of work is the greatest. Then, too, they will save all the manure. 

 They can take care of the cows at that time, because they haven't any- 

 thing else to do, and they can take good care of them. Get good animals, 

 and be sure they are right before you get them. 



Q: Has anj^one had any experience in feeding beets? 



Mr. J, H. Brown: We fed our cows 24 pounds per day; it works all 

 right so far as the cows are concerned; I think it takes a little longer to 

 churn the butter, and also there is a frothing of the cream in the churn. 



