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kept over one summer and it had kept very good. There was 

 a very small portion lost. The upper part of the silo had been 

 refilled last summer, on top of the old, and I didn't know how it 

 would work, but there was no trouble about it." 



Mr. D. W. Curtis: "We have been agitating this question 

 in Wisconsin three years. Last year we probably built 

 about sixty silos. Last year the regents of the University 

 engaged Mr. Austin, of Neilsville, to plant a field of 

 ensilage corn and put it into the silo and keep an exact account 

 of everything to know what it was going to cost. He planted 

 twenty acres, thirteen acres of that corn he put into the silo. 

 The corn was cut when it was a little past the roasting-ear. It 

 was wilted from two to ten days before being hauled to the silo. 

 It was weighed and averaged a little over nineteen tons to the 

 acre. After giving credit for the land, keeping track of all the 

 labor that was placed upon the field, etc., his ensilage cost him 

 a little less than 65 cents a ton when in the silo. He thinks he 

 would rather have two tons of that ensilage than to have a ton 

 of timothy hay. Mr. James Smith, of Green Bay, planted a few 

 acres which he cut up and let it dry out in the field to settle the 

 matter of how much it went to the acre; it was hauled to the 

 city scales and weighed. After this was dried out thoroughly 

 it went ten tons to the acre. The sixty and eighty ton silage 

 corn is pretty hard to find ; if it goes twenty-five or thirty tons 

 it is considered a good crop and will pay to raise. Most every 

 one with us raises B. & W. corn. I saw in this forenoon's dis- 

 cussion that they thought the northern corn was quite as good 

 as this B. & W." 



The President : "No, it was the corn that was raised by the 

 neighbors down in Georgia and Virginia, where the B. & W. 

 corn is supposed to be shipped from." 



Mr. Curtis: "This corn is grown in Georgia, and when 

 brought to the northern country it develops a great deal of saccha- 

 rine matter in the stalks , which, when it becomes acclimated, 

 seems to depart. That is why people who have tried seem to 



