STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 563 



Dr. Woolen: In building a silo after your pattern, if you were build- 

 ing one for summer feed, would you put a roof on? 



Mr. Gurler: No. All the advantage I can see of a roof would be to 

 prevent and throw ofE suoav that might fall when you are feeding. I 

 don't thinli the water is any damage. It is an advantage up to the time 

 you come to feed out of it. I have one without a roof that I filled, I think 

 this is the fifth time, and I tell you it is a mighty fine thing to have a 

 roof. 



Mr. Burnside: Is it connected with your barn? 



Ml*. Gurler: No. 



Mr. Burnside: If your silo was connected with your barn, would you 

 want a roof on it? 



Mr. Gurler: Well, my silos are shut off from my cow stables. They 

 are under the same roof, but they are partitioned off, so that the cows 

 get none of the odors from the silos. 



Mr. Burnside: Let me asli you why it is that rye in a silo will taint 

 the milk? 



Mr. Gurler: I can't answer that, but I know there are odors floating 

 around. I know one time I Avas training a class, and one of the students 

 detected the odor of the hogpen in the milk, and we ran that down and 

 found where the milk came from, and we asked that man where his 

 hogpen was, and it was fifty feet away. I mention that to show you how 

 carefully we ought to guard these things. 



Mr. Fairfield: I want to ask Mr. Gurler if he has any trouble with 

 silage freezing? 



Mr. Gurler: It does freeze sometimes. It won't damage as long as it is 

 frozen, and then when it drops down we mix it up with some other silage, 

 and we don't know the difference, and the cows don't know the difference. 



Mr. Fairfield: Can you explain about frosted corn? 



Mr. Gurler: If it gets frosted, I will put it in as rapidly as possible. 

 If it gets frosted, put on plenty of water. 



The Secretary: How do you put on the Avater? 



Mr. Gurler: Sprinkle it on at the base of your elevator. I have a hose 

 I can run up and put in a half-inch gas pipe and run it along the base of 

 the elevator and have a lot of little holes drilled in that so that it will 

 spray all the time as it is going up the elevator. 



