II. — Cow Troubles 



I KNOW I should have a silo for the corn-stalks 

 or at least a cutting box, but I haven't either, 

 and the result is that I have trouble. How to 

 get ten-foot stalks into a four-foot manger is a 

 problem that I have to wrestle with every day and I 

 am no nearer the solution than I was at the begin- 

 ning of the winter. I have to stand them on end in 

 front of the cows and as the soft ears were all left 

 on the stalks, the cattle go at them wildly and toss 

 them all over the place in their hurry to get the ears. 

 The result is that every few days I have to clean 

 out the rejected stalks from the mangers and the 

 front of the stalls and that makes more trouble. I 

 wish some one would tell me why it is that the tines 

 of a fork will slip through corn-stalks so easily and 

 are so hard to pull out. I do not find very much 

 trouble in getting a good forkful of the stalks but 

 when I carry them out to the hole in the barnyard 

 where I am piling them in the hope that they will 



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