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I proposed to sell a portion of that seed to a city house, and I 

 thought I would be sharp and send them a sample, and they 

 said it was very fine indeed, but they could buy yellow corn for 

 .20 cents a bushel; they didn't want any. 



Mr. Chubbock (of Missouri): The subject of this paper is of 

 considerable interest to me, as to the farmers in my state. I 

 wish to corroborate one statement made in the paper as to the 

 nutritive value, the feeding value, of corn fodder. I was at one 

 time connected with the Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Columbia, Mo., and under the direction of Prof. Sanborn, we 

 made some elaborate experiments to determine the feeding value 

 of corn fodder as compared with timothy hay. We found that 

 one ton of corn fodder and one ton of clover hay mixed and fed 

 to cattle, cows and steers, was fully equal in value to two tons 

 of timothy hay, and we also found that there is fully one-half as 

 much value in the stalk as in the grain for feeding purposes. I 

 have fed to dairy cows, using a cutter, and I considered the fod- 

 der cut by that machine equal to the shredded corn, at least I 

 had no difficulty in getting my cows to eat up perfectly clean all 

 of the fodder cut up in that way. I supposed when I began 

 that I would have enough left to furnish me bedding for my 

 cows, but I found I was mistaken because they ate it all up, not 

 only in the winter time, but even when they were on as good 

 grass as ever cows were upon, they would come in from the pas- 

 ture at night and eat a feed of that cut fodder mixed with bran 

 and oil meal every night during the summer, and, of course, in 

 that way I was able to keep a very much larger number of cows 

 upon a given area of grass. I did not shock my corn at all, so 

 that when I speak of corn fodder I mean the whole thing, ears 

 and all. I would take the fodder in the morning and put It in a 

 box, moisten it, mix the bran and oil meal with it and let it soak 

 during the day and then feed it at night, and the cows ate it all 

 up perfectly clean. As part of my crop I grew a large variety 

 of sweet corn and I considered it of more value than other vari- 

 eties because it did sucker, in that way I produced more ears to 

 the hill; it would send up an extra stalk which would bear an 

 ear, small it is true, but that is what I wanted, and I got more 



