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and is being regularly sold on the market. At 

 Lafayette, Ind., the writer has purchased it at 

 the feed store for $5 per top., 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 in a 

 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. The shred- 

 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- 



