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ity, which I cannot always do, putting up as much as I do. I asked ProL 

 Haecker that ctuestion and I am hunting information on that myself. I 

 have aimed to get my corn when the early ears> have commenced to^ glaze, 

 but I find I have got to commence earlier than that or else I seel some of 

 it so ripe, and that is not so good. I put some in a year ago in 1899; you. 

 remember corn dried up early. I had to wet down half of my corn. I 

 run a spray on it as it went in the elevator. I find when the corn begins 

 to get a little dry it is advisable to do that. If you don't, your corn has 

 not moisture enough to exclude the air and preserve the fodder; it will 

 not pack closie enough to exclude the air and will damage. I have done 

 a little something on this line last month. 



Mr. Wheeler: From your remarks I judge you plant your corn so- 

 that it has some ears on it? 



A. Yes, sir; I won't say always. I have years ago planted a bushel 

 to the acre, but I kind of drifted away from that. I got an idea I had bet- 

 ter go that way in the food that I wanted my cows to have it, believing 

 that was the economical way to feed the cow that amount of corn, because 

 I find, that the corn put into the silo in that stage of maturity, beginning' 

 to glaze, that the cows digest it all, no wasite. I am not arbitrary on that 

 line though, I know I have something to learn, anjdi jit does me go*od to 

 hear Prof. Haecker, because I am uncertain and I expect I always will 

 be. 



Mr. George: I notice that the railroads are using concrete and ce-^ 

 ment to take the place of brick and sitone. It has occurred to me several 

 times in speaking' of silos that it could be used to advantage. 



A. I have done nothing more than think about it since I have come 

 to this convention; I have been talking that way. 



Mr. George: I had occasion to build some of these coinduits under 

 the streets and they are being constructed for the carrying of pipes and 

 wires, and they have been thirty- five feet below the street. These are 

 constructed now entirely of this same concrete with the same kind of ce- 

 ment you are talking about. If it is so airtight then it would certainly" 

 do for silos. 



