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feed and going to increase the milk yield of the cow. When we 

 came to feeding the silage from this silo I told the boys they had 

 better keep up the bran ration for a few days at least and watch 

 the milk record carefully. There was no change whatever m 

 the milk yield from the silo with corn than from that with corn 

 and peas mixed equally ; no change whatever, and we kept up the 

 same mill feed that we had in the case of the clear corn silage. 



Another experiment that we made at the same time was 

 in the fact that we had well cured pea hay in the barn. When 

 we fed that well cured pea hay in the barn we could reduce the 

 mill feed and have the same amount of milk, or more. 



Mr. Spies : — I hail from Southern Illinois. 1 do not know 

 that it will be of any benefit, but I was going to make a statement 

 that we were not permitted to make a year ago, and I do not 

 knew whether it will be best to have it published at this time, as 

 the s:.me conditions of things still exist. 



I live down there and am doing business with the condensing 

 people there and I like them, but they hold us down on one thing, 

 continuously hold us down on ensilage, and that is one reason why 

 the people take the interest they do to improve their herds. I 

 have been working among them for the past fifteen years, and the 

 reason they are interested in the test is because they have been 

 told and have found for themselves that it is for their own 

 benefit, that they can improve their herds by testing their cows 

 and getting better sires, and if they cannot afford to improve 

 their herds any other way than to go and buy pure bred heifer 

 calves, because they can buy them cheaper and raise them and 

 grow both sides that way gradually. 



Our people down there are paying too much for their feed; 

 they are buying too much feed. They can raise that feed them- 

 selves and the silo would help them wonderfully, but the reason 

 they have not been doing it is because the condensaries will not 

 take the milk produced by ensilage. They discourage it. I 

 built my first silo in '87 and built another one since. When the 

 second one was built there were several others, and they are a 

 success down there as they are here, but the condensaries are 



