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Question : — May I ask what condition that ensilage was in ; 

 that is in regard to the quantity of corn in it? 



Mr. Young: — There was not a good deal of cured corn. 

 It was this old Virginia ensilage last year and the year before 

 not mature corn. The ears were quite large but they were not 

 fully out. 



Question : — There is considerable corn in it ; that is in the 

 ensilage ? 



Air. Young: — Yes sir, the stalks run so large that the por- 

 tion of corn was not as great as in ear corn. 



The President: — AYe must hurry on this subject, but I 

 I just want to say this much about it — if you will refer back 

 probably six years in our records, you will find this same thing 

 brought out in a paper by Mr. Judd given us down at Dixon. 

 I do not think we should waste our valuable time in threshing 

 over old straw. If you will look over your records you will 

 find this just the same. 



Air. Judd believed in feeding grains of all kinds. He had 

 figures he scared us all on ; he had a blackboard and showed us 

 where his feed scarcely cost him anything. It is not always the 

 kind of feed we give the cows, but the man behind this stuff. 



Air. Van Norman : — The intimation was made that they 

 are feeding a lot of cows and therefore they had to feed fodder 

 in that way, that they could not afford to feed them carefully 

 and study closely. I know one herd where there are three 

 hundred cows. One hundred and fifty are fed every pound of 

 feed that they get : they are fed to exceed not eight pounds of 

 corn apiece ; they want that grain so light that four quarts 01 

 it will weigh as near 2^4 pounds as they can get. They claim 

 they can reduce the productiveness of those cows by over-feeding 

 them roughage. These people are weighing the milk every 

 day of those cows and have an average of over six hundred 

 pounds per cow per year, and they believe it pays to feed a good 

 grain lation and feed them light. In the case I refer to, the 

 owner of those cows knows every individual cow in that herd and 



