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Question : How did you plant it ? 



Me. Boyd : A kernel every four inches in drills, and 

 then I planted the other corn every eight inches, and 

 again every twelve inches, tried it every way. 1 would 

 rather have a ton and a half of the Learning corn than 

 two of the B. & W. in feeding. I don't want this 

 watery corn in my silo, it doesn't keep as well and has 

 not as much feeding value. 



Mr. Graham : John Gould, of Ohio, is one of our 

 best authorities in dai^ing, and he has always stuck 

 to the B. & W. corn, and 1 see in his report this year 

 that all the dairymen in his section have gone back to 

 that after trying the other variety. 1 was up in Wiscon- 

 sin last fall and saw some silos filled with the field va- 

 riety, and I asked as to its keeping qualities, and they 

 said it molded quite a good deal, but that the cattle 

 ate it all the same. In my own silo I would come to 

 chunks as big as a half bushel that were moldy and 

 stuck together, and I never had any such experience 

 with ensilage corn. The field variety, if it is left ex- 

 posed a day or two, will mold a good deal. Last year 

 there was a great demand for the B. & W. corn seed. 



Mr. Gurler : We must remember one thing, and 

 that is the amount of surface exposed in the silo must 

 correspond to the amount of stuff you feed. My rule 

 is six square feet of surface to each cow, or mature 

 animal, that I am feeding. In that way with care in 

 feeding, the surface can be kept uniform and you will 

 feed down fast enough so you will have no trouble. 



Mr. MacMillan : I think Mr. Gurler said he could 

 find no machine that satisfied him in cutting his crop. 

 I have had no experience in cutting ensilage, but I cut 

 my corn and run it through a cutter, and I have used 

 a sled, which is manufactured with a knife on each 



