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whether that wasi economy or not. It takes less labor when it is bound. 

 They pick those bundles up and it is easier. And then if you work at it 

 when the corn is not in bundles it is mussed up on the road and it is l®t& 

 of work, and it is not in condition to go through the feed cutter. Itisaia 

 unsolved problem. We cut with the harvester and have the low down 

 racks under both axles. 



Mr. Wheeler: How many wagons do you have to use? 



A. I hiave five of those hay platforms and can adjusit them to an^ 

 wagon that we have. It depends upon how far I have to haul. 



Q. Do you let it lay in the field before going to the cutter? 



A. If the corn is a little green in the early part of the work it is all 

 right, but after the corn gets up to the desirable state, the quicker you get 

 it in the better. If the corn is too dry, don't let it dry in the field, because 

 you have got to the point where y ou need to have moisture. 



Mr. Crosier: In speaking of your herd of cows, part being let out im 

 the grove and part in the barn, were those in the barn out in the pasture 

 at all? 



A. Those in the barn were turned out nights and kept/ in the barn^ 

 darkened barn in the day time, and they were fed silage the same as those 

 out in the grove were fed silage i n feed boxes. 



Q. What would you think of the plan, run in the pasture two or 

 three hours in the morning and then in the evening, and feed silage im 

 the heat of the day in the barn? 



A. Well, I don't know as there are any objections to it, but I think: 

 it is better for the cow to be out all night in warm weather. That: 

 would be all right, but I don't see yet where there would be any ad- 

 vantage of being fed in the barn in the heat of the day to those out ioi 

 the grove. 



Q. Away from the flies. 



A. Confound it, you don't keep them away from the flies. Thex 

 just live with the flies and they don't sleep nights. They are burrowing 

 in the skin all the night long. They don't go to the ceiling to roost. 



Q. Where did you get the name Texas for them? 



