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far up as the platform, the doors commence from the platform 

 up. There's about three doors from that up, 16 feet high. We 

 drive up to the platform with a load of corn stalks and feed 

 them from the platform, right into the feed cutter, that is carried 

 up 16 feet by the straw carrier and another straw carrier takes 

 it from there and empties it into a pit. We get the straw carrier 

 right over the center of each one of the pits and when we want 

 it in the last pit, we close the two first trap doors. When we 

 want to empty into the second pit, we open the second trap door 

 and close the first one; when we want to empty into the 

 first pit, we open the first trap door; it is a very simple opera- 

 tion. By doing that, we avoid the difficulty of changing the 

 feed cutter and the horse power every time we want to shift 

 from one pit into another. Mine worked very well, though we 

 did not cut quite so much as Mr. Gurler did; the most we cut 

 was about five tons an hour, and we couldn't keep that going 

 right along. We would fill one day in one bin, the next day in 

 another, and the third day in the third bin, and then commence 

 in the first on the fourth day, and in that way it took us about 



four weeks to fill the silo." 



I find that my cows won't eat such large quantities of 

 ensilage as mentioned — fifty, sixty or seventy pounds a day. The 

 most I can get them to eat is thirty-two pounds per day. 



Question — "Was your corn planted thin enough to have 

 many ears on ? " 



Mr. Boyd: " Oh, it had ears on; sometimes three ears to the 

 stalk; it was ensilage corn, Virginia corn." 



Mr. Potter: "Perhaps that had something to do with the 

 difference in the weight." 



The President: "There are some of us who are not entirely 

 satisfied of the utility of the ensilage and the practicability of 

 building silos. Now, Mr. Boyd, won't you tell us what you 

 think of them? talk just as you would if you wanted to sell the 

 right to make ensilage, and then we will learn the advantages of 

 it." 



