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Mr. Young: — Of course I never analyzed. I put it in for 

 the bulk of it. I knew I was getting a very large yield per acre. 

 And there was no souring or extra fermenting of it, as some- 

 times is claimed. But I let it get ears on ; great big ears, too. 

 I cut it and let it wilt a little. 



M£ Glover : — The point to make is that if that is developed 

 to the same point that our common corn is, it makes splendid fod- 

 der, and lots of it to the acre; and it makes more dry matter to 

 the acre. But if we are looking after grain in our corn, we don't 

 want to plant it. 



Air. Cobb : — Take that southern corn around here, and we 

 have got to take the risk of getting it to mature properly. If 

 we do have to cut our ensilage a little immature, then to make 

 a good grade of ensilage, it ought to be cut a day or two days 

 ahead of the teams, and let it get rid of a part of its surplus 

 moisture. 



A Delegate : — Let me ask, if it is planted as thickly as Mr. 

 Haecker spoke of, so that there are no ears, would that fodder 

 or not be pretty well matured before it was put in ? 



Mr. Cobb : — Oh, yes, it ought to be allowed to ripen right 

 up to the limit of moisture. 



Mr. Glover : — He determines that by investigating the con- 

 dition of the lower leaves. When they begin to dry, then he 

 puts it in. 



A Delegate: — I have another subject. I don't know that 

 I am exactly safe in bringing this up. It is a question I never 

 heard discussed, and if nobody here has ever had a cow lose a 

 calf, perhaps you are not interested. But it is the question of 

 abortion in herds. It is paj(iaps something none of you have 

 ever had, but I have, and I would like to hear what the different 

 dairymen here have to say on the way they handle it. 



Air. Cobb : — I have been called to a good many herds in the 

 last three years, to start the right conditions to stamp out this 

 disease. I was in Missouri three years ago, and went through 

 the state with the state veternarian, and he was talking of this 



