THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 91 



DISCUSSION. 



Q. — How do you prepare silage? 



A. — I do not know that I could give you a better description 

 than to call it "cow sauerkraut." 



Q. — How do you cut it up? 



A. — It is run through a feed cutter and chopped into little 

 pieces about one- fourth inch long, ears, stalks and leaves all 

 together. Some farmers don't want ears. They plant it so 

 thick that the ears will not mature and only have the stalks and 

 leaves. This we think would depend largely on the size of the 

 farm. On the larger farms we would just as leave have the 

 grain ration right with the stalk. Others not having a large 

 farm would want more of the stalk than leaves to the acre than 

 they can get by raising it for the ear. 



In regard to the machinery to fill it with, I have my own and 

 they tell a story on me which explains how I happened to have 

 it. I am an old bachelor and they say I never did anything for 

 the community in which I lived until I built my Silo. They say 

 I had a neighbor about a quarter of a mile away and that I used 

 to go down there and borrow all the tools he had. He would 

 kick a little when he came down to get them again but the next 

 time I wianted any I would go down the same as before. I had 

 another neighbor living about a half mile away and that I used 

 to go down there and borrow all his tools until he got sick of 

 coming after them and refused to lend them and that I had 

 another neighbor about a mile away who was just like I was, 

 that never had anything to lend and I bought the machinery for 

 filling a Silo and I made the statement that I would loan it to any 

 man the first year who would build a Silo and while they have 

 nearly worn the machinery out, I believe it was the best offer I 

 ever made. 



