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of work, but I can do all I need to, and this machine having no feedrest 

 to can-y simplifies the thing, and the condition it leaves the feed in, being 

 piclied to pieces after it is cut. 



The Secretary: Is that machine in tlie marlcet generally or is that an 

 experiment? 



Mr. Gurler: It is made now by the Whipman Agricultural Company, 

 of St. Louis. The machine never has been pushed; the public doesn't 

 know the merits of that machine. 



Mr. Burnside: Do you use a blower or elevator? 



Mr. Gurler: I use an elevator. Let me say this: do not allow any 

 agricultural machinery men to fool you into getting a double chain ele- 

 vator. I went to work and got up an elevator of my own, using a single 

 chain, and I have used that nearly two years, and we have not had an 

 hour's delay with that elevator. The only delay we had with that last 

 fall was when the pin came out that holds the chain links together. 

 When a man has twenty men around, and sometimes I have twenty-five 

 men, to have a breakdown for two or three hours, runs into money mighty 

 fast. 



Mr. Gates: If you had two crops ready for the silo at one time, would 

 you use one at a time or use both at a timeV 



Mr. Gurler: I mixed them. If there is no advantage any other way, 

 it would be an advantage wiien you come to feed. I put some beans in 

 last fall, but I haven't come to them j-et. 



Mr. Young: How about clover silage? 



Mr. Gurler: I caii't ansAver that question. I have had room for all my 

 clover, but I haven't much faith in clover silage from what I have read of 

 it. The difi:erent varieties of corn, I thinlv. are not so much different as 

 the people think. 



Mr. Burnside: Do you want your silage well eared? Do you want an 

 ear on every stalk? 



Mr. Gurler: If it would be I can produce twice as much feed per acre. 



Mr. Burnside: Well, would you rather have it well eared; have it rich 

 in corn? 



Mr. Gurler: Yes, I would, to say nothing about Avhat it costs me to 

 grow it. That is the point you wanted? 



Mr. Burnside: Yes, sir. 



