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works, etc... etc. It is proper to tax it when it is used as a beverage, but In- 

 dian corn for food purposes should not be taxed. Now, why should the 

 farmer pay 90 cents on something that is consumed in India, where a great 

 deal of this Indian corn in alcohol goes to? In Germany and England it is 

 all right. They look at the question, they study it over there technically, 

 theoretically, and practically. Germany and England don't make a one- 

 thousandth part of a tax on alcohol. They make what is called wood alco- 

 hol. All these questions I might bring up, but cannot do so now. 



We want you to take hold of it, we want the Dairymen's association to 

 take hold of it, if they think it worfh your attention. 



I DISC USSION. 



Prof. McLain: Q. Mr. Hostetter brought out the fact that it cost a 

 grain dealer more to transport $100 worh of corn than it did to transport 

 $100 worth of our wheat. Is that true? 



Mr. Hostetter: I stated that it did not cost any more to ship a pound of 

 butter than corn, and in shipping corn we shipped fertility, and in shipping 

 butter we did not. 



Prof. McLain: A car of corn is worth $100, and a car of butter is worth 

 about $4,000 or $5,000. One hundred dollars worth of corn robs the farm of 

 about fifteen times as much as a like value in butter; would it not be much 

 better to have a propaganda for the introduction of American Dairy Prod- 

 ucts than a propaganda for the introduction of corn? 



Col. Carr: I agree with you. It is better to feed all the corn you can, 

 not only in dairying, but to the cattle, and feed it as much as possible. By 

 more consumption of Indian corn we will bring more land under cultivation. 

 We can cultivate with better facilities. The State Agriculturist says 160 

 bushels of Indian corn to an acre; we can raise more. Now, it is said that 

 we will use it in dairying, and mark et all we can, and feed it to *he stock 

 and use all we can, but with this enormous product we can also add to the 

 export. You say, and it is said, that it is better to feed it to stock. You 

 migh say the same thing of oats, or any other grain. It is said — lam com- 

 ing to it. But it has been said that what farmers want is cheap corn — what I 



