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down here, the ears had been snapped off and the stalks are 

 standing out there to-day, and they never will be made any use 

 of, except to plow them under, and they are not in the best 

 condition even for that. It would pay them to shred them to 

 plow under, if nothing else. 



Mr. Murphy: I find that with us some have been running 

 their fodder through a threshing machine and calling that 

 shredding. The first shredders that came into our section had 

 some kind of a cylinder, such as the threshing machines have, 

 across the teeth, rigid. The new machine has brought us far 

 better shredded corn /fodder. I have seen some cases where 

 the corn would not be torn apart for at least eighteen inches 

 long, and I think that would make a cow's mouth sore. It 

 should be torn up fine and then there will be no danger of mak- 

 ing a cow's mouth sore as there is with cut fodder. I found I 

 had to set the fodder cutter to cut only a quarter of an inch 

 long in order to satisfy both the cows and myself. For the silo 

 it should be about three quarters of an inch. I have an idea 

 that there will be less danger of spoiling with moisture on it to 

 put it into the silo than the open bin. 



Mr. Boyd: I think that the trouble in putting in shredded 

 corn is that it should not be packed down. It is the reverse of 

 the silo It should be thrown in as you throw in hay and allow 

 it to settle itself. It will heat up some. 



Mr. Newman: I want to get this audience to grasp the idea 

 that the value of corn fodder is equal to the value of the corn 

 and when you men of Southern Ilhnois realize the millions of 

 dollars of the corn crop going to ruin each year and how much 

 you will save to the state by saving it, you will contrive some 

 way to save it in the silo, or by shredding it. 



Mr. Spicer: I notice Mr. Boyd spoke about husking corn 

 and then grinding it and then you give a kind of formula adding 

 bran and -linseed meal and cottonseed meal. What do you do 

 with the corn that you grind. ^ 



Mr. Boyd: Feed it to the cows and the hogs and the 

 horses. We grind the whole cob. 



Mr. Barber: There are some seasons in this part of the 



