No. 4.] SOILING AND SUMMER SILAGE. 61 



neighbors, and organized the grain Lnjers' clnb. We drew 

 up articles of agreement in providing that each signer should 

 subscribe $100 for a period of six months or more for the 

 purpose of co-operating and buying feed. After four 

 months, if for any reason a member wished to withdraw 

 his portion, a written notice was to be given sixty days .in 

 advance. The money is held in trust by a treasurer. The 

 feeds are sold to members at an advance price of 50 cents a 

 ton over the purchase price, 25 cents of which goes to the pur- 

 chasing agent for his expenses, and the other 25 is paid to 

 the treasurer as interest on the investment. It does not 

 make any difference whether you use 1 ton or 5 tons, that ton 

 of grain is charged the 25 cents by the treasurer as interest 

 on the investment, and the oftener it is turned over the more 

 the interest will increase during the season. All grain must 

 be paid for in thirty days, and it is strictly understood that 

 thirty days means thirty days and not sixty, for if we are 

 going to do business with that little amount of money, we 

 have got to consider it so. Any necessary demurrage shall 

 be met by the members ; that unnecessary by those responsi- 

 ble. And this agreement is signed by each member of the 

 band, and each member holds a copy of it, and it holds each 

 one of us to the fact that this is a business proposition. If 

 we deviate from it, we go back on our word. 



' We found that the first car of feed we got, with the ex- 

 pense added to it, was so little over the carload price that 

 it makes it possible for us to get a ton or 2 tons, whatever we 

 want, at the inside price. I think that in a year we will be 

 able to get even better prices, because the more feed we han- 

 dle the more reputation we make and the greater concessions 

 we can get from the jobber on close prices. If this is worth 

 anything to you, you are welcome to it. 



Mr. B. W. Potter. I would like information on one or 

 two points. I understand the purpose of this argument is to 

 show that the summer silo is superior to the summer soiling 

 method, and I would really like to know which is the best. 

 Would it not require the same amount of work to fit the land 

 and sow the crops for the summer silo as it would for the 



