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that there is not a building on your farms today that will give 

 you as big a return for the money invested as the silo. If I had 

 a friend that came to me for advice I would advise him to mort- 

 gage his land, if need be, in order to get the money to build 

 a silo for that would place him in a position where he would get 

 the best return for his money. 



I can notice a big difference in this locality from when I 

 was here before; there is not nearly as many corn stalks left 

 in the field as there was when I was here the last time. Now I 

 feel that this subject can be brought out better in a discussion 

 than if I occupied more of your time, but I want to say before 

 I close, that the farmers of the State of Iowa would not think 

 it possible to run a farm without hogs while here it is an excep- 

 tion to see hogs. With the price of pork from 6 to 10 cents a 

 pound we feel that we would make a big mistake if we did not 

 keep hogs and feed our skim milk to them. I am not a large 

 farmer but last year I got $1,662 out of my hogs and I still have 

 a hundred left. 



Member : Have you any sick hogs ? 



Mr. Shilling : That perhaps has been your trouble. I was a 

 buttermaker for fourteen years and during that time we fed our 

 buttermilk to the hogs, we had from 150 to 200 hogs, the cholera 

 came along and cleaned us out several times, then we bought 

 Jersey Red hogs and placed them in the same pens and we 

 never lost one afterwards. I don't know how you can explain 

 that, but it is a fact. 



I want to say before I sit down that you have a rare treat 

 coming and that is the cow demonstration by Professor Van 

 Pelt, but if there are any questions that I can answer before I 

 close I will be glad to do so, and if I cannot answer them I will 

 tell you so. 



I had a question come up the other day that I could not 

 answer and I believe I will give it to you and perhaps some one 

 here can answer it. At a meeting that I was attending recently 

 a dairyman said that for two or three years he had had spoiled 



