FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 251 



Professor Smith : When you feed silage to cows will it not 

 injure the milk? 



Mr. Trow: There are twelve silos in my neighborhood that 

 furnish milk into our creamery, and I had the honor of bringing 

 the gold medal home in my pocket this year from the National 

 Buttermakers' Convention. 



Professor Smith : Let me say that I took a ton of milk at 

 our dairy school and took it out to a silo, such as Mr. Trow 

 describes, and ran it through a milk cooler in the silo . I took 

 another ton and ran it through the cooler in the clean butter 

 room, and made it all up into butter. Of course the boys knew 

 how to make it. Sent it down to Chicago to an expert, and he 

 could not tell which was which . 



Mr. Anderson : We are going to build a silo this summer and 

 I would like to ask your opinion of the blower? 



Mr. Trow: If you have a threshing machine engine, or 

 something that will give you plenty of power, I would advise the 

 blower. If you are short of power use the elevator. If you 

 have not power enough, the blower is a bad thing to have. I 

 know of no other objection to it. 



Member: In York state they all have silos. There is one 

 blower used down there that will blow perfectly, and that is 

 made in Ohio, I think. 



Mr. Trow : I was recently up at one of the best farms in 

 Minnesota and noticed a blower put up at a heighth of about 

 fifty feet that worked very good . I asked the name of it and 

 they said it was the Warsaw -Wilkinson. 



Member: How many tons can you put in in an hour? 



Mr. Trow: About sixty tons a day. That is not working 

 the men too hard. I know there are a good many buttermakers 

 in this audience, and you all want to make good butter. There 

 has been some talk about ensilage making bad milk, and all 

 that. I want to tell you there is no danger from it if patrons 

 look a little carefully after the feeding of it, not put in so much 

 it will lay in the manger and rot, and it is also advisable to feed 

 after milking if you want to be sure not to have any trouble. 

 A few years ago in our neighborhood there was quite a rage on 

 silos, and some buttermakers got an idea that it was hurting the 

 milk. Now I am not making any fling at the buttermakers, but 

 you know it is natural when you have bad butter to try to blame 

 someone else. At one creamery the commission men kicked on 



