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aeres of corn at 55 to 60 cents a bushel. I can't get my corn 

 husked for less than 5 cents a bushel. I figured the total cost of 

 putting that in the crib and the total expense of putting that corn 

 into the silo. It cost me 80 cents more per acre to put it in the 

 silo than if I had left the stalks in the field and husked the corn 

 and put it into the crip. It seems to me there is no business in 

 the world that would stand the loss of this corn going to waste. 

 In a year like this, when corn is spoiling in the fields, there is 

 nothing that I am so thankful for as that I have that 110 acres 

 of corn in the silo where it is just like canned corn in the shell. It 

 will make about $3.50 to $1 an acre — 5 cents a bushel for husking, 

 55 bushels to the acre, and 80 cents an acre on top of that. There 

 is a question of how much that corn went to the acre. They tell us 

 that good corn will make ten tons of silage to the acre ; I have my 

 doubts about that. I think about seven or eight will come nearer 

 to it. 



Mr. Gunn : Mr. Ames and myself filled two silos, and they 

 averaged 65 cents a ton for filling. 



Mr. Brockway: I am very sure it will cost a man more the 

 first year than ever afterwards. I can see now where I can put it 

 up a good deal cheaper another year than I did this. 



I would like to say in regard to this snap corn — I used to use it 

 a good deal — that I find running it through an ensilage cutter 

 improves it a great deal. Just at present I am running about 100 

 bushels of snap corn with about 1,000 pounds of alfalfa hay. 



Mr. Murray : It is not profitable to feed snap corn in the ears 

 where there are not plenty of hogs to follow, because they will 

 waste it. 



Mr. Gunn : I Avould like to ask Mr. Murray, if he was buy- 

 ing snap corn, how many more pounds would he take to the bushel 

 than of ear corn? 



Mr. IMurray : Five pounds more ; there is five pounds difference 

 between the ear corn and the snap corn. 



President Sykes: Since hearing Humphrey Jones' lecture last 

 winter, I am thoroughly convinced that the time is not far distant 

 when we must adopt the silo, and, as ]Mr. Brockway has said, can 

 up some of this corn, so that we w\\\ not be caught with it out in 

 the snowbanks and sleet and mud, as it is at the present time. 



The meeting thereupon adjourned. 



