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shocked corn in the field a good many years, and 

 there is a big loss to me. It takes a wonderful sight 

 of room, and the only way that I could ever preserve 

 it at all securely, aside from shocking, was to stack it 

 up in ricks. 



Mr. Boyd: I want to find out whether there is any 

 virtue in the silo. 



Mr. Gurler: That is the turning point; there is 

 the great advantage, and another advantage is the 

 palatability of it, and 1 am satisfied my cows like the 

 ensilage better than they do the dry fodder, and the 

 probability is that if you have not feed that is palata- 

 ble, the stock won't eat enough to pay. The more feed 

 they have that they can handle, the more profit there is 

 in the process. 



Mr. Boyd : My experience is exactly the reverse of 

 Mr. Gurler's. For three years I planted B. & W. corn 

 and I put it into the silo, and I put it in at all stages, 

 and I raised a big lot of it to the acre. 



The Chairman : How much ? 



Mr. Boyd : I won't tell how much, because perhaps 

 you wouldn't believe it. I have blundered in this bus- 

 iness and I have profited by the blunders, I think. I 

 never got absolutely satisfactory ensilage from the B. 

 & W. corn. It did not keep as well as I wanted it to 

 keep. It didn't have corn enough on the stalks. I am 

 now planting what we call ''Learning" corn for the 

 silo. I raised as much corn to the acre as I did of the 

 B. & W. It is a Dent corn, a large, yellow Dent, not 

 the Yankee corn, and I raise just as much to the acre, 

 ton for ton, as I did of the B. & W. 



The Chairman: How much was that? 



Mr. Boyd : I raised a good twenty tons. I raised 

 as much as thirty tons, but 1 averaged twenty. 



