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Mr. Spies: I fed some whole grain when I first started on a 

 small scale and I fed more hay than Mr. Judd, but I fed a lot of 

 corn fodder, I left all the small ears in the corn fodder and I fed 

 it outside on good hard dirt, in a place where they were 

 sheltered by straw stacks. I was raising lots of wheat. I found 

 after I built the silos that I could discount that system consider- 

 ably in the yield of milk, and I thought my cows were healthier. 

 I don't think a farmer ought to pay five cents a bushel for 

 grinding, that is wasteful, I had a grinding mill myself. I hired 

 an engine and a man to run it and he ran the engine for three 

 dollars a day, and would grind 500 bushels. 



Mr. Stewart: How did you get along selling your milk after 

 you commenced with the ensilage? 



Mr. Spies: After I increased to a sufficient quantity, I got 

 two cents a gallon more for my milk, as I stated yesterday. 



A Member: I should think the corn would get pretty hard. 



Mr. Judd: Not if you keep it in the shock in the husk; it will 

 if you husk it and put it in the crib and let it freeze there two 

 or three times. Cows like it better with the husk left on. 



Mr. Dorsey: I believe Mr. Judd is right. I have been feed- 

 ing this last six years ground feed right along, running to the 

 custom feed mill and having my food ground for practicaly noth- 

 ing, but I changed to Mr. Judd's system, it saves husking corn 

 and threshing corn. There is no waste about this method. 

 The hogs follow the cattle and eat what oats and corn pass 

 through whole and do well. 



Mr. Murphy: You would be astonished at the big lot of hogs 

 that can be kept running after the cattle, especially with brood 

 sows, and how well they will do. 



Adjourned till 7:30?. m. 



The convention met at 7:30 p. m. 

 The president in the chair. 

 Piano solo, Miss Clara Fraser. 



