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Mr. Seelet : This year part of my corn filled well, 

 and the balance of it was a little dry at the bottom 

 and it was quite hard. I find that my cows pick out 

 the corn with the ears on, and they are doing finely. 



Mr. Graham: There is no trouble in their eating 

 the corn in your ensilage. The trouble is they will 

 pick it out and leave some of the rest, while if there is 

 no corn, they will eat it all up clean. Ensilage is not a 

 perfect feed, and I think it is better to add the other 

 feed separately. 



Question. Then I gather from what you say that 

 the benefit you get from your ensilage depends very 

 much upon the condition of it and the addition of the 

 other feed. 



Mr. Graham: Yes, the best results are from feeding 

 in connection with the other feed, and you get so much 

 per a'cre of the large variety that it don't pay to bother 

 with the other, and it dries up so quick in the fall, 

 that it is hard to get it into the silo in good shape. 

 The Southern corn will stand frosts better and stand 

 droughts better. 



Mr. Humphrey. What stage of maturity is it best 

 to cut % 



Mr. Graham: There is a great deal of this corn that 

 won't germinate at all. It comes from the South and 

 there is no care taken in collecting it, and it don't do 

 to plant as quickly as our variety that we take great 

 care in collecting and planting when the ground warms 

 up a little. I let it stand as long as I can and not get 

 caught by the frost. 



Prof. Farrington: What stage of maturity was your 

 corn that had no ears on when you cut it for ensilage, 

 wasn't it before the ears had begun to grow ? 



Mr. Graham: Oh, no, there were some ears that had 



