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milk all fall. I began to study this question, and I used to feed some 

 sboats with the milk and some corn, and when these pigs got at the 

 same age, there would not be very much difference in weight and size, 

 but they would stand on their feet so well, and I have had men come 

 there and look at my pigs and they would declare they were not pigs 

 at all; they would declare they were old hogs. 



The Secretary: What made them stand up? 



Mr. Gurler: They had had a balanced ration; they had the elements 

 in their food to make them strong on their feet. 



Mr. Drischel: Mr. Gurler has talked on the subject of milk; now I 

 would like to get on the question of whey. You run twenty-five to thirty- 

 five pigs for eight or ten months, and j^ou will feed all that they can 

 drink, and you will probablj^ give them a basket of corn in the morning 

 and probaljly' one in the evening, and they are anxious for this whey, 

 especially in the fall and winter time. This is sweet whey up to that time. 

 When they get 140 or 150 pounds they won't drink so much whey, and 

 then we give them about six baskets of corn per day, that is the propor- 

 tion, and still give them all the whey they possibly can drink, and that 

 same ratio of corn after that, and we think that the average we get is 

 about one-third whey and two-thirds corn in the price. 



The President: Is there anything further on this subject? I will say 

 this has been a very interesting subject, and I think there has been some 

 points brought out that will be profitable. We will now have Mr. Gurler 

 tell us something about the silo. 



THE SILO— ITS CONSTRUCTION AND VALUE. 



H. B. GURLER, DEKALB, ILLINOIS. 



This word "silo" is a stumbling block, to begin vdth. Silo and silage— 

 I can remember how I stumbled verj' much when I first read it. If, in 

 place of that, we had used the term "a feed can" and "canned feed," we 

 would simplify the matter for the farmers. That is what it amounts to. 

 A silo is a place where we put up canned feed for our stock, and silage 

 is canned feed. 



Mr. Helmer: Tell us what ensilage is. 



Mr. Gurler: Ensilage is silage. We have dropped off a part of it. 

 There is no lady that has not put up fruit, and she wovild have given us a 

 whole lot of ideas if we had started in in that way. There is no question 

 about that. 



