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Q. What do you think of sowed corn for cattle, thick drilled or sowed 

 corn ? 



A. My idea is that you don't want to get corn so thick, but what you 

 get some color in the stalk, it grows white like something growing down the 

 cellar, and there is no nutriment, it aint worth feeding. I get better results 

 from drilling. The way I plant, I get ten or twelve kernels to the foot and 

 I think that is as thick as it ought to be. 



Q. You get considerable ears on the corn that way ? 



A. I get small ears. 



Q. What about sweet corn ? 



A. I have used some, but I was troubled to get seed corn that would 

 grow. I think myself that it is more nutritious or something; you get a 

 little better results from the same amount of feed ; you won't get such a 

 yield as you will in the yellow dent. 



Q. How do you fasten your cows in the stable V 



A. With stanchions. I built my barn with double stalls, and they are 

 chained. It is more comfortable for the cows to be tied around the neck ; 

 but I could not keep them clean, they had so much liberty. 



Q. My experience in tying cows in stanchions was, at the first they got 

 tired, and in the morning going out they would lie down ; but after being a 

 little accustomed to it I could see no difference. 



A. The cows are tied in the stables just like a horse, and in double 

 stalls ; they can reach the food, so there is no stretching and straining ; each 

 cow has its separate feed box. 



Q. Give us an idea of the amount of food profitable to feed a cow ? 



A. Well, I think it is proper to feed them all they will eat, of the proper 

 kind of food. It is not profitable to feed them all the corn meal they will 

 eat ; make a variety, give them different kinds. 



Q. Your rule would be simply to ascertain about what a cow will eat, 

 and eat up clean ? 



A. Yes ; but don't get the idea that I am in favor of feeding cows all 

 the grain feed they will eat. You will readily learn what they will make 

 good use of. There is a great deal of difference in cows in that respect ; you 

 can tell a great deal by the droppings ; the droppings of some cows will look 

 as if they had no grain feed at all, and some will look half meal, as though 

 they had not had half the good of it— had more than they could assimilate. 



Q. I understand that you get two crops of hay a year ; where do you get 

 your summer feed ? 



A. I get a good aftermath on the clover. 



Q. Where do you get your winter pasture ? 



A. I don't have any; the cows are in the barn, except a short time 

 every day, long enough to have the stables cleaned. 



Q. My experience has been, that no matter at what season a calf is 

 raised, in addition to the milk ration it should have hay, instead of grass, for 

 the first six months ; it secures better digestion and less liability to scour. 

 In raising winter calves, how long do you give them fresh milk before you 

 change off ? 



A. I never feed my calves fresh new milk until I get them learned to 



