166 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I tested that skim milk and there was . 7, pretty nearly a pound' 

 of butter left in that milk. That is the way with most of our 

 so-called practical experiments on the farm. Of course, they 

 do make mistakes at the experiment stations, but they are doing 

 very difficult and valuable work. 



Mr. Judd: I have great respect for the experiment stations, 

 but, when a man like Mr. Boyd, who is just as capable of carry- 

 ing on an experiment as any experiment station. 



Mr. Boyd: Oh, I disclaim that. 



Mr. Judd: Even Hoard's Dairyman, the best dairy paper 

 published, appreciates that it is much easier to sit down and 

 figure out a theory than to go right into your own barn and fol- 

 low it up. They often arrive at results at these experiment 

 stations that we cannot harmonize with our own practice. Of 

 course, most of them are all right, but when they say that a ton 

 of clover hay and a ton of corn fodder do not bring any better 

 results than two tons of timothy hay, it seems to me there must 

 be some condition that they did not take into consideration. 



Mr. Spies: I notice that some of the speakers here do not 

 realize that they live in different altitudes. Mr. Judd spoke of 

 the corn standing in the water on level ground. You must re- 

 member we have an open winter here compared with what it is 

 up at Dixon and when that corn stands out in this moist air, it 

 degenerates, the stalks act like a sponge and become loaded 

 with water. We can't leave our fodder out in the field as they 

 can in the northern part of the state. Maybe over in Missouri 

 the ground is higher than here on our level prairies. That is 

 the reason that I have to resort to the silo and my experience 

 has been that the silo is the place where I could keep feed with 

 the least deterioration. 



Mr. Boyd: There is no excuse for leaving your corn fodder 

 in the field all winter. What would you think of a farmer who 

 when he harvested his corn would throw the ears on the ground 

 and leave them there and carry the stalks into the barn.? You 

 would think he was a fit subject for a lunatic asylum but that is 

 exactly what lots of them are doing when they leave the corn 

 stalks on the ground. We saw lots of corn as we came along 



