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fed from the silo, and that ensilage should contain a large 

 amount of corn. The way to raise corn is to raise com 

 and not stalks. The primary object of every farmer when 

 he plants corn should be to raise the greatest number of 

 bushels per acre. Then as to clover, — I see no indications 

 of any clover fields in this country. We got over three tons 

 per acre this year of clover hay. That furnishes not only 

 about a ton and a half of dry matter per acre, but furnishes 

 from twelve to eighteen dollars' worth of plant food in the 

 roots, per acre, if we compute it according to commercial 

 values. I throw out these ideas, hoping that they will 

 awaken thought. This trying to get along with cotton-seed 

 meal and oats and gluten meal, while we have left the land 

 entirely unused as it should be used, and have not made the 

 best use that we could have made of it, is very bad policy. 

 After having grown this corn, a large amount of it, — for it 

 is the greatest feeding plant the Lord ever made, where it 

 can be raised, — and after having raised clover, the question 

 arises whether you can afford to feed more than you can 

 raise of any kind of grain. I would like to ask Professor 

 Cheesman that question. 



Professor Cheesman. I think we can. My own pi;actice 

 has been to use the least possible amount of corn meal, not 

 having had ensilage to draw upon, — not more than ten 

 or fifteen per cent of corn meal. I am inclined to think, 

 from subsequent experience, that, where you have crops of 

 grain such as were indicated in the paper, you can very well 

 dispense with corn meal altogether and substitute middlings. 

 We have got to feed some grain if we want a large milk pro- 

 duction. I do not see for my part how by the growing of 

 large crops of clover — that is, large crops for us here in 

 Massachusetts — we can avoid the necessity of purchasing 

 supplementary grain foods. I would like to remind Professor 

 Roberts that he is not in New York. 



Professor Roberts. I am in a better country, among a 

 better, higher class of people. 



Professor Cheesmax. Thank you. If Professor Roberts 

 would take a trip up the Connecticut valley over the river 

 road he would pass not a few fields which a good deal re- 

 semble those which he knows in his own State ; but we all 



