412 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Member: What percent of Wisconsin dairymen use silos? 



Mr. Gillette: The soil is getting in Wisconsin much like 

 the straw stack, it is getting to be a common occurrence and I 

 venture to say it will not be very long before we have silo cut- 

 fits going through the country filling silos as you have threshing 

 machines going through the corn growing section from farm to 

 farm. 



The silo is a thing that has come to stay and I do not see 

 how any dairy farmer can afford to feed cows without the silo. 

 I took a trip last month through the state of Illinois (and I am 

 fearful that the same conditions exist here) and I foimd corn 

 stover standing upon the grounds of the farms of the state of 

 Illinois. I am confident that you have the same condition of 

 things here; corn stover enough to winter the dairy cows of 

 Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa combined. Can you ajffoTd to 

 make that extravagant waste? If some of our Wisconsin men 

 came down here and through Illinois and saw this wonderful 

 corn stalk crop going to waste every year they would think you 

 ought to be put in the insane asylum, and I am not sure but you 

 had. 



Professor Smith : Wouldn't it jar your nerves to know that 

 the condensed milk factories of Michigan have sent notice that 

 after this year they are not going to take any milk that is pro- 

 duced by cows giving silage? 



Mr. Gillette: What condensary is that. Is it the Gordon? 

 No others are doing it. 



Prof. Smith : I have been preaching silage for years and 

 this condensary comes along and says "No more milk from 

 silage". We are up against it. 



Mr. Gillette: As I understand it, you have milk condens- 

 ing plants that have encouraged the building of silos in your 

 section and are today encouraging it. 



Prof. Smith : No sir. Those are the fellows that are 

 condemning it now. 



