ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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A: — Only one. 



Q: — How much ensilage far each cow? 



A: — On an average, about 40 pounds a day. In November 35 pounds. 



Q: — Is your silage full; corn in the ear? 



A: — It is the native corn. 



Q: — You have given the corn in the silage?! 



A: — Yes sir. 



Q: — If fed by the baskei., how much would you give? 



A: — The cows vary so; will eat a scant basket. 



Q: — Feed silage morning and evening? 



Q: — Yes sir, and clover ; just be fore milking. 



Q: — How much clover? 



A: — I estimated they were eating five pounds a day, and night before 

 last I took my fork and put it around in little piles and weighed it and I 

 found my cows were receiving less than four pounds on an average a day, 

 'but I had charged them with five pounds. 



Q: — What price did you charge the silage? 



A: — $1.15 in the silage. 



Q: — Isn't silage worth what yea can get for it? 



A: — I could not get more lor it. 



Q: — Couldn't you get more than $1.15 a ton? 



A: — I don't think I could get 50 cents a ton in my neighborhood. 



Q: — What condition is your corn in when you put it in the silo? 



A: — Nicely dented. 



Q : — What price the straw ? 



A:— $35.00. 



Q: — What part do you live? 



A: — DeKalb county. 



Q: — How many tons of silage from an acre? 



A: — About nine tons. 



Q: — What is the cost of labor to put it in the silo? 



A: — I could not tell you here; I figured it all in. 



