FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V. 259 



We moved our machine and engine about nine miles that after- 

 noon and filled two silos for friends of ours. They had built 

 silos hurriedly because their corn crop was threatened to be in 

 such shape that it w^ould not mature. Then we came home and 

 two or three days after that, perhaps a week after we first filled 

 it, \\Q finished ours and filled it, within two and a half feet of the 

 top. 



We had an experience with frosted corn one year. The ma- 

 chine we bought was delayed in coming to us and before we 

 could cut our corn we had a heavy frost. We took a water-tank 

 along beside the cutter and ran a small stream of water into the 

 cutter all the time ; we put that into the silo and never had better 

 silage than that year. If your corn becomes frosted do not be 

 discouraged ; if you put a sufficient amount of water with it you 

 will get a sufficient amount of silage. 



Question : How deep could the silo be run ? 



Answer: Our silo is about one foct above the ground. There 

 is this advantage, — if you put your silo dowm you will have to 

 raise your silage out. You might a good deal better build it a 

 few feet higher than raise it by main strength. 



FOOD VALUE OF FEED STUFFS. . 



Euclid N. Cobb, Mammouth, Illinois. 



The subject assigned to me by your secretary is one that I have given 

 more study than any other phase of the dairy subject and I am free to 

 say that as dairymen we have no subject that is of more vital importance 

 to us to the profitable conducting of our business than the one of the 

 value of the feeds we give our cows to make them live up to their possi- 

 bilities as dairy animals. Our greatest source of profit lies in the pro- 

 duction of as much feed as possible on our own farms, and briefly I will 

 enumerate the feeds that I have found most profitable to produce; first 

 let me say that the condition in which the feed ils given to the cow is 

 a great facDor in the results obtained. I have found that at no time is 

 a farm raised feed so profitable and palatable as it is in its green stage; 

 so it stands us in hand to have our feed in this condition as much of the 

 year as possible; and I have found it both practical and profitable to 

 have the feeds in this condition the entire year, that is some of them. 



In order to do this we must have lour soil crops and silos as well; 

 and so arrange the pastures and soil crops that our cows have a liberal 

 daily allowance from early spring to late in the fall, regardless of 



