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feed one to two years is different in several 

 ways. He can stand this kind of work for his 

 short life, and he is not expected to perpetuate 

 himself, no matter how good an individual he 

 may be. But the choice cows we wish to keep 

 to produce butter and to perpetuate themselves 

 or an improvement on themselves. For that 

 reason the cow is deserving of more considera- 

 tion than is the steer, and the man who does not 

 realize this will not be able to secure the best 

 results from his cows, either from the present or 

 the future. 



In early work with the silo many cut their 

 com before it was sufficiently matured to give 

 the best results when fed to cows or other stock. 

 Later the opposite extreme was reached by 

 some, and the corn was allowed to become too 

 matured before being put into the silo. Some of 

 us tried to induce the cows to adjust themselves 

 to the conditions of the corn in which the chem- 

 ists found the most nutrition, but did not quite 

 succeed and have learned to stand by our ob- 

 servation of the cow. 



Cut with a Corn Harvester. — ^When filling my 

 silo I cut the com in the field with a com har- 

 vester, binding it as though it was to be shocked. 

 Enough is saved in labor by having it bound 

 more than to pay for the twine used for bind- 

 ing. There is a great difference in the labor of 

 handling bound and loose com at the feed cut- 



