lS8 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Hostetter: Does^ your sileage spoil aroundi the edgesi? 



A. It don't mold anywhere. To Illustrate that, I have in my em- 

 ploy this winter a young man from Pennsylvania, who has been for sev- 

 eral years a school teacher. I wa s O'Ut to the farm about six weeks ago 

 and he was at work in the silo. He remarked as I got in the silo to look 

 around: "I am surprised to find how perfectly this silage is keeping," 

 and he dug down next the wall against the cement wall, and I did the same, 

 and we could not jfind anything decayed at all. He said in Pennsylvania 

 all silos he had seen had a loiS's; they decayed silage around the wall. 

 That comes from' imperfect wooded walls. 



Mr. Hostetter: In my siloi it usually moulds around the edlges. This 

 plan is all right and I will have to give up my old sdlo; it has been run 

 ten years. 



Mr. Gurler: That is my answer. You got a poor circular silo. 



Q. Whether you have corn cutter, a shredder. 



A. I do, both. Formerly I had a cutter that simply cut the corn in) 

 section. I have a cutter now that is a cylinder twelve inches in diameter 

 and seven feet long, and) it is more like the old threshing machine than 

 anything else. On that cylinder I put knives. Those knives cut against 

 teeth in a concave, that is all the re is to it. It drops right through. Well 

 now between thes« knives there is a little pick, so that after) the coirn is 

 cut into sections, by adjusting this concave, we can adjust them close 

 enough to the cylinder so' that the little teeth picks these large stubbles 

 of pieces between that can get through between the concave and the 

 cylinder. 



Now the corn is laid right in lengthwise of this cylinder. I find that 

 I have a much less waste, much less when cut that way than when it was 

 simply laid in and did not try to pick the stalks. 



Q. What variety of corn an d when do you cut it, at what stage of 

 maturity. 



A. I use corn at different dates; some early and some late native 

 corn, and plant some of the red cut ensilage corn and some of this large 

 Virginian with the idea of getting most of it in the right stage of matur- 



