1^4 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



A. I don't know. They called it the horse fly; that was the first 

 name for it. 



Q. Is this silage all you feed? 



A. No sir, I feed a little hay and if I had clover I would feed it 

 largely in connection with silage. I feed oats, corn, corn fodder, and I 

 liave recently been drawing some out of the shock in the field and feed- 

 ing the cows outside. I find the cows like a little dry corn fodder even 

 when having silage. They like a variety. Another question, it has more 

 protein in it. Clover hay is best for the cows. 



Q. I thought these flies were buffalo flies? 

 ' A. See here, don't keep reminding me of the flies. 



Q. Any grain feed with your silage and your hay. 



A. Yes sir, I am feeding now ground corn meal and coh together 

 and wheat shorts and gluten meal — the Pope gluten meal. 



Q. What quantity? 



A. I can not tell you exactly. We probably feed about five pounds 

 of that gluten meal. We have to feed according to the size and the 

 appetite and the ability of the cow to handle it. 



Q. Five pounds gluten meal, how much bran? 



A. Just commenced feeding wheat shorts, not bran. I tell you we 

 are feeding to get two and one-half pounds protein and twelve and one- 

 half pounds carbohydrates. That is the main point. 



Mr. White: How many cows to the acre, or acres to the cow? 



A. That's pretty tough. I wish I might get where I could talk that 

 way., We need to when land gets up to $100 an acre. But now 1 will 

 tell you what I am doing. I have 360 acres in my farm, renting 80 acres. 

 I have got about 280 head of cattle, and I think 14 or 16 horses and that's 

 about all having dry feed. I give all the cows silage, but I have to buy a 

 good deal of my ground feed, most of it. I grow seven thousand bushels 

 of corn and grind that up for the cows and buy gluten meal, wheat 

 shorts, and am now buying corn. My corn this year I did not husk, and 

 I had 150 acres of corn. Put it nearly all in the silo and the rest in the 

 .shock. 



