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The President: "What do you think of the business — is it a 

 big thing ? " 



Mr. Little: "I think so." 



The President: a Going to keep it up ? " 



Mr. Little: "Certainly, I will." 



The President: "Going to build another ?" 



Mr. Little: "I think not, because I keep very little stock 

 and I have got enough now for two years. I built this silo for 

 no other reason in the world than to show to my patrons. I 

 would say to my patrons, 'You will have to build a silo,' and 

 they would say, 'If it is a good thing, why don't you put up one 

 yourself?' And I told them finally that I would do so, and 

 when they saw the corn growing and the thing started, they 

 began to say, some of them, 'We will have one next year.' 

 Many didn't believe in it very much, but they promised to come 

 and look at it. After I built it they showed considerable inter- 

 est, and now every day some of the neighbors call to see this 

 silo and they are well pleased and are going to have one." 



Mr. Garfield: "How many men did you have to do the 

 tramping ? " 



Mr. Little: "We didn't tramp it at all, only a little around 

 the edges. We put it in regularly about every other day." 



The President: "But no tramping?" 



Mr. Little: "Only about the edges." 



Question — "What kind of corn did you use?" 



Mr. Little: "Ensilage corn." 



Question — " Do you know where that comes from? " 



Mr. Little: "I don't know for certain, I always supposed it 

 came from Virginia; regular Virginia sweet corn." 



Mr. Sawyer: " While you are on that subject, I have some 

 figures which are just as I set them down while I was plowing 

 the land and cultivating the ground and planting the corn and 

 filling the silo. The whole cost of raising the corn, including 

 the rent of $3.75 an acre on four acres, was $29.00. I had that 

 to draw half a mile to the silo. The hauling, cutting and every- 

 thing complete, cost $43.75 for putting it into the silo. The 



