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Mr. Graham : How tall was your corn ? 



Mr. Gurler : I don't know ; it was as high as most 

 anybody's last summer. I should say ten to twelve 

 feet high. I have had the B. & W. corn sixteen feet 

 high, but not last year. 



Mr. Graham: We built a machine last summer and 

 went into the field and tried it, and couldn't do any- 

 thing with it ; our corn was twelve feet high. 



Mr. Boyd: It won't cut in very woody corn. 



Mr. MacMillan : In regard to the drill corn, I will 

 say this, there are a number of those corn harvesters 

 used in our country, and there was some difficulty, as 

 Mr. Graham speaks of, but it was always with green 

 hands that did not understand the exact workings of 

 the machine. I have worked on that kind of a thing 

 for two years past, myself, and I never saw corn so 

 thick that I couldn't take it off until I had my arm 

 full. It doesn't make any difference to me at all how 

 thick the corn may stand in the drill. After a little 

 practice it cuts no figure at all. 



Question : Do you claim that you add anything to 

 the feeding value by putting it into the silo, anything 

 that was not in the corn before you put it there % 



Mr. Gurler: I don't claim that you do. 



Mr. Graham: I claim that it is more digestible; 

 therefore it don't take as much exercise on the part of 

 the cow to assimilate it, and it will give better returns 

 than it will for you to feed that green corn right in a 

 new state. 



Mr. Sficer : I haven't got it through my head yet 

 whether we really gain anything by putting our corn 

 into the silo. It has been a question in my mind 

 whether I have made anything in putting up corn that 

 way that I wouldn't have made by putting it in the 

 crib. I know the cattle are doing well. 



