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clover you should have about eight pounds of corn meal and I run that 

 through a feed cutter and put the corn meal on. You see the alfalfa and 

 clover has about 10 per cent digestible protein, which would make two 

 pounds in there, and the rest had about 6-10 protein, making 2.6.10 

 of protein a day. The other man said he was feeding timothy hay and 

 corn fodder; said it was good timothy hay. He always waited until 

 there was some substance in it. When I feed meal and bran, and when I 

 change to corn meal they come down. Timothy hay and corn fodder had 

 less than 3 per cent of protein, hardly enough protein to sustain life. 

 That is just all there was about it. The cow must have the protein to 

 have the casein; must get it out of the corn fodder or something, I 

 don't care what, just so she gets it. 



Q. I would like to inquire what he was feeding them? 



A. Corn fodder and Hungarian hay. 



Prof. Haecker: In connection with corn fodder and timothy hay, I 

 do not know as the two parts of bran and one part of corn would more 

 than furnish the protein. You feed 20 pounds? 



A. Yes sir. 



Mr. Curler: About what state of maturity would you harvest corn 

 for silage? 



A. We generally harvest it— we let it stand as long as we can and 

 not let it get caught with the frosts. We plant about the middle of 

 June, and then harvest from the 5th to the 10th of September. 



Q. What condition will the corn be in. How far developed in the 

 cars ? 



A. Not to have any ears at all. If any at that time about the latter 

 part of the milk stage. It may be that if we had let this corn grow a 

 little longer the analysis would show that it contained a larger percen- 

 tage of nutriment, but our herd responds better to corn planted late 

 about the middle of June, and cut between the 5th and 10th of September. 

 A year ago now I had fed from the beginning of fall to the close of the 

 first week in January corn fodder that contained no ears. It was planted 

 on the 13th of June and harvested about the 10th of September. At 



