168 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



state that the chinch bugs suck all the sap out of our corn, so 

 that we consider the stalk useless. If we had some way of 

 defeating them, then we would have a chance to do better. 



Mr. Boyd: Your chinch bugs come from raising wheat. 

 We don't raise any wheat because it is unprofitable. 



Mr. Wildman: We didn't raise very much wheat this year, 

 but still we raised a good many chinch bugs. 



Mr. Blessner: It seems to me that I have seen some fodder 

 left out in the fields up north sometimes. 



Mr. Boyd: That is very true. We have shiftless fellows all 

 over the state. 



Mr. Soverhill: Speaking of clover hay in these experiments 

 I want to say that I think there is a great deal of difference in 

 cutting it early, as soon as it is fairly in blossom, I think there 

 is twice the difference in value to what there is later on. 



The Chairman: Don't you find it hard to secure it when it 

 is SO green, aren't you busy getting in your grain at that time.^ 



Mr. Spicer: I let everything else go and get the hay in 

 while it is right. 



Mr. Newman : We in the northern part of the state started 

 in along in the early seventies and commenced to feed corn 

 fodder, now I do not think there is a farm in the Fox River 

 Valley but what every spear of corn that is raised is cut up and 

 fed. On my little farm of i8o acres, I carry fifty cows, some 

 young stock and eight or ten horses, pigs, etc., I can make better 

 milk on my roughage, corn stalks than I can when I start in to 

 feed hay in the spring. I do not feed hay to the cattle unless 

 I run out of corn stalks. There are farmers all over the state 

 w^ho leave their corn standing out and there are farmers all 

 over the state that have lots to learn yet before they will begin 

 to make money, and that is what we are all after, I think that 

 you people down here, if you will take more pains and save the 

 roughage and feed it and sell your hay and buy other feeds, you 

 will make money. 



Question: How about feeding this corn fodder to horses, 

 steers, etc. "? 



Mr. Bovd: It is better for horses than anv kind of hav. I 



