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were harvesting and some of it was out in the field for ten days, 

 but it didn't do it any harm." 



Question — "How much hay do you feed at noon?" 



Mr. Boyd: "A very small ration of hay; we were pretty 

 short on hay; we did not get more than one ton where we got 

 seven ordinarily, and we have been very saving of it." 



Mr. Stock well: "About how much help did it take when 

 you were putting in your five tons per hour?" 



Mr. Boyd: "I started to cut it with a reaper and found it 

 did not work. Every once in a while the long stalks would fall 

 back again and it would cut off about a foot at the end of it. 

 Then I had a lot of women come and cut it with knives; they 

 would lay it down and cut it right along, and I found four 

 women could cut it as fast as we could put it in." 



Mr. Garfield: "I am somewhat confused as to what consti- 

 tutes a ton of this ensilage. I hear different men speak about 

 different quantities — forty pounds, fifty pounds —and it strikes me 

 it would take about a thousand cubic feet to make a ton of it." 



Mr. Boyd: "I calculate fifty cubic feet to the ton. I have 

 measured pretty carefully and I think that is it from the way 

 we are feeding it out from our bins. I have' each foot marked 

 on the boards, and as we feed out I know just exactly how far 

 down we have gone in the pit. When I speak of a ton I mean 

 a ton of packed stuff. In filling the bins we try to scatter it and 

 tramp it down, and after it is once settled the lateral pressure 

 becomes relieved to a large extent." 



Mr. Little: "My ensilage settled over four feet from the time 

 I left it until I came to take the covering off. On top were two 

 or three inches spoiled and on the sides and in the corners it ran 

 in still further, and it was so badly spoiled that my buttermilk 

 pigs would not look at. It was as black as the ace of spades, 

 if any of you know what that is. I don't think there is any ani- 

 mal on earth could eat it; but, of course, an inch or two on the 

 outside is a small matter where a man has such a large quan- 

 tity." 



