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A. Yes, sir, very fond of it; would frather have a bunch of that than 

 anything else to eat. 



Q. When you feed this to your cows, do you use it with other feeds? 



A. You know I amnotin the dairy business. I am feeding it most- 

 ly to sheep. 



Q. How do, you keep your seed; how do you prepare for it? 



A. We put it in an ordinary threshing machine and keep it in small 

 bulk ; 6 or 8 inches deep on ardry floor. 



Q. Can you keep it in summer? 



A. All right to keep through the summer. 



Mr. Glover: — Q. Do you grind it? 



A. I have never tried it. It can't be ground by itself, unless in do- 

 ing that they willcut and not pres s it. 



Q. Don't that become/hard when lying on the flooi; and drying? 



A. No harder than here in the pod. 



Q. Can the cow chew that? 



A. If you feed that alone it gums in the cows' teeth; it is very oily. 

 It should be fed in connection with something else. 



Q. I suppose it is the questio n whether we had better raise Soy beans 

 to feed the stock instead of corn; that's the question I believe. I have 

 read the reports and a number of experiments have been made, and only 

 last week I read a report from one of one of the Experiment Stations giv- 

 ing the experience of the farmers in Kansas, and they had not found it 

 profitable to raise -it in place of corn for fodder; and it is a question with 

 us, and we want to know whether we had better stop raising corn for fod- 

 der for the stock or in connection with other stuff raise Soy beans. How 

 tfar north can that be raised in Illinois? 



A Member: — A. In' Carroll county. I was surprised to see it, too, 

 this dry weather. The cattle like it very well. They will pick that up be- 

 fore corn every time. I feed it in the straw; feed it as hay, and I noticed 

 that they picked that up first. It will grow as far north as Carroll coun- 

 ty. My soil is not sandy; it is a clay soil, hilly, poor land: it is hilly 

 and rough. 1 



