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The Chairman : I have lived where I could have 

 one eye on Mr. Graham, and I noticed that last year 

 middlings were very high, and this year he got his 

 middlings in early, and he has fed more this year of 

 middlings and less ensilage. 



Mr. Graham : No, I have fed more ensilage this year 

 than ever before. 



Mr. Gurler : I have had several years experience 

 with ensilage, and I commenced with planting a por- 

 tion of it, three bags to the acre. Last year I only 

 planted ten quarts to the acre, some of the ensilage 

 and some field corn. I planted the field corn in 

 order to have something that would cure early; 

 two varieties of common field corn, and the ensilage. 

 The idea was to have it ripen along to pretty near 

 the same stage of maturity to put it into the silo, 

 which you can't do if you plant all one variety, some 

 will be too early and some too late. According to my 

 experience I want more corn than Mr. Graham does 

 with my ensilage. I had some corn that didn't pro- 

 duce any ears that grew on poor ground and I had 

 some that grew on rich ground, and there was quite an 

 amount of corn in it, we have husked about fifty or sixty 

 bushels of corn to the acre. Now, when I changed, in 

 working down a compartment of my silo, from one 

 kind to the other, I found a change in the milk. About 

 ten days ago we opened a new pit in the silo, and we 

 came first upon this corn that has practically no ears 

 on it. We had been feeding out of the bottom of an- 

 other pit where we had ensilage with quite a large 

 amount of corn, and my cows dropped off a hundred 

 pounds of milk, the sixty-five cows. 



The Chairman ; Might there not be a dozen reasons 

 for that? 



