162 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



all of you be honored with requests for articles on the subject 

 and really be qualified to write a much better paper than this. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Judd: Have you ever seen the Milwaukee Shredder .'^ 



Mr. Boyd: No, sir, I have used the shredder made at St. 

 Albans, Vt., by the St. Alban. Foundry Company. 



Mr. Judd: There is a company in Milwaukee that got out 

 a machine this year that is a self feeder, with a capacity running 

 from 1 8 to 20 acres a day. It is called the Rosenthal and it 

 does fine work. Two or three neighbors buying it together find 

 it economical to exchange. 



Mr. Murphy: That is too much, more than we can get to it. 



Mr. Judd: Five teams can handle it all right. 



Mr. Stewart: Our farmers divide a good deal on shredding 

 corn or cutting it up. Which do you prefer.^ 



Mr. Boyd: Oh, the shredding, two to one, for the reason that 

 the nutritive value of the corn is in the stalk and not in the 

 leaves or the cobs, and cutting it up does not give you the use 

 of the stalk, the cattle will leave it, and besides that their mouths 

 get sore after they have used it a little while. 



Mr. Stewart: Some claim that shredding cuts their mouths 

 more than the square. 



Mr. Boyd: I don't see how that can be if it is properly 

 shredded, torn up. 



Mr. Murphy: Do you think it really is a fact that the Leam- 

 ing corn will not sucker.^ I have raised it and I have not noticed 

 its being any different to other corn. Some seasons it will not 

 sucker but other seasons it will. 



Mr. Boyd: I have bought a great deal of seed corn and I 

 have very rarely been able to get seed corn that is true. I save 

 my own seed. Once I raised what I called very fine corn, and 



