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put a silo into operation. You can grow an acre of roots, 

 produce from fifteen to twenty-five tons, and take them into 

 your barn and handle them just as you would grain; they will 

 very rarely freeze in our barns, never if' the cow barn is as warm 

 as it ought to be, and you can feed them throughout the winter, 

 and until grass comes, and what it costs you to raise two acres 

 of corn will grow one acre of roots, and I will guarantee it will 

 pay to the acre more than any four acres of corn that you have. 

 Roots may be grown also for larger herds, with profit; we grow 

 every year from twelve to fifteen hundred bushels; we can 

 grow them and put them in our barn for a dollar a ton and we 

 can't grow any feed on our farm that makes us more money 

 when fed to dairy cows and all other kinds of stock. 



Mr. Newman: What kind of roots do you prefer.? 



Prof. Curtiss: We regard the red and the yellow globe 

 mangolds as the best feed we can grow. 



Mr. Pethebridge: In England silage is put up in stacks 

 and covered and weighted down and I have seen some very 

 good silage turned out. They cut down the sides and make a 

 square stack of it, and the practice has been attended with good 

 results and with very little damage. 



Prof. Curtiss; I never have seen that done in this country. 

 I am aware that it is practiced successfully in Great Britain, but 

 I have never known of its being done here. 



Mr. Monrad: For fear it might be thought a very good 

 thing I will state my little experience. When I was in England 

 I was taken down by a prominent farmer and shown his stacks. 

 I examined them and found them all rotten about two feet on 

 the outside. I do not think it is an economical way to handle 

 it. 



A Member: I came here from Indianapolis. I know of a 

 gentleman who has a silo that holds 3,000 tons. This year he 

 had too much to put in his silo and he stacked it up and he tells 

 me it is keeping very well. 



Mr. Pethebridge: Perhaps Mr. Monrad was unfortunate in 

 striking a stack that had not been put up properly. I know my 



