28 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A : — Those are the instructions we had before we built our 

 silo. 



Mr. Newman : — I hope you will live up to it. 



A : — We limit our feeding to once a day, a common bushel 

 basket not quite full, 20 pounds a day directly after milking in 

 the morning. 



Q : — Will you explain the restrictions that the Condensing 

 Company has, or the instructions given you for feeding ensilage? 



A : — I would rather not answer that question in regard to 

 feeding ensilage or the instructions given. Feel under obligations 

 somewhat to the condensing people and would rather not answer. 



Mr. Cobb : — We are glad to know that there are condensers 

 that have come to a common sense idea on this ensilage question. 

 It has been thoroughly proven that ensilage fed cows milk is just 

 as pure and wholesome as any other feed. 



Mr. Clover : — Do you know how long this condensed milk 

 is kept after it is canned. Do they keep it a long time or ship it 

 for immediate consumption? 



A : — Keep it a long time ; they keep it indefinitely. 



Mr. Lindley : — In regard to this ensilage question. The 

 people here are trying an experiment in the way of milk produc- 

 tion and testing the ensilage and they hope to have some very 

 good results from it. They feed a well balanced ration and a 

 small amount of silage. They are finding out just what silage 

 will do, if entire silage it would spoil and ruin that condensed 

 milk or sterilized milk, and until they find just how the condi- 

 tion is they will not permit the free use of silage. 



Mr. Glover: — In regard to this, I have questioned consid- 

 erably the superintendents of the Gail Borden Company in regard 

 to this matter. They do not hestitate to claim that if silage is fed 

 correctly that they can m?ke condensed milk that would keep 

 quite a while. But for a long time they never had been able to 

 find farmers who took enough care of the silage so they could 

 make milk that would keep for a long time. In Michigan they 

 operate factories that Secretary Alger was interested in that use 

 milk made from silage. That was shipped immediately to the 



