116 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
and is being regularly sold on the market. At 
Lafayette, Ind., the writer has purchased it at 
the feed store for $5 per ton, while in some 
other places it fetches $8. In view of the fact 
that so much corn-fodder goes to waste in the 
field the shredders offer a valuable medium of 
rescuing it and placing it on the market ina 
desirable form for economical feeding. Says 
the Breeder’s Gazette (Aug. 15, 1894): “That 
the invention of the shredder opens up a mar- 
ket for an almost unlimited quantity of fodder, 
shredded and baled (see Fig. 40), for city trade, 
is beyond all question. It will soon be quoted 
regularly in city feed stores * * * and we 
are informed that a bright, well-cured quality 
of shredded fodder has sold in bales at city feed 
stores at $8 per ton.” 
Testimony concerning shredded fodder.— 
During the spring of 1895 the Breeder's Gazette 
published many interesting letters from exten- 
sive corn growers and stockmen who have 
shredded their dry corn fodder. The universal 
testimony seems favorable to this method of 
preparing the dry plant for feeding. Theshred- 
ded material may be stacked in the lot, after 
the manner of stacking hay, though it is prefer- 
able to place it under shelter. 
The following evidence is abstracted from 
the various communications in the Gazette as 
presenting valuable information on a compar- 
