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out of the silo will make any more milk than it would 

 if it was fed to the cows green in the condition it goes 

 in. You all know that up to a certain point in feed- 

 ing green corn there is no loss, but as soon as the corn 

 begins to get hard, there begins to be a loss. 



The Chairman : I do not think there is any danger 

 of getting too much Southern corn, but if you put up 

 our common corn, you will get a great deal too much 

 in your ration. 



Mr. Gturler: If you don't plant more than eight or 

 ten quarts of B. & W. corn to the acre, and in a cli- 

 mate where it matures, you will get just as much corn 

 as you can field corn. Of course, down here in Cen- 

 tral Illinois you can grow a different kind of corn than 

 if you lived in Wisconsin. I would plant a corn that 

 was adapted to my climate so I would get the proper 

 degree of maturity. 



Mr. Boyd : Corn fed out of the silo in December, 

 cut in September; is it worth any more because it has 

 passed through the silo than it would be if it had been 

 cut in September, and shocked and carried in and cut 

 as we used to do it, and fed in December 1 



Mr. Gurlek: That is a pretty big question. I will 

 tell you all I know and that ain't but little. I have 

 fed lots of shell corn myself, but I never have got 

 down to facts and figures that would warrant me in 

 getting up and making an assertion. My experience 

 is that I have a much less loss of fodder when it is put 

 into the silo than I had in any other way of securing 

 it. My theory is that if you cut and shock corn the 

 same time as you put it into the silo, and cure it per- 

 fectly, so there is no haste in maturing, the difference 

 in the feeding value would be very small, but I don't 

 know of any practical way of curing it. I have fed 



