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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q:— The actual labor? 



A: — I figured everything except my own labor. I hired some work, 

 but most of the work that I had to have done in filling my silo I worked 

 back in helping my neighbors thresh, and then I worked myself. 



Q: — What do you figure the corn item? 



A: — Ten dollars an acre. Corn sold in our neighborhaad under the 

 hammer from $8.00 to $11.50 an acre, and I thought $10.00 a fair estimate 

 for the corn. I don't think my corn would have brought that. It was on 

 a piece of land that was not right good for corn and I did not have 

 right good corn. 



Q: — How much to the acre husked out, how many bushels? 



A: — Twenty-five, may be. It was very poor ground; ought to have 

 had 40 bushels. 



Q: — Were you feeding the same way last year? 



A: — More grain ration last year. 



Q: — Didn't you have a silo? 



A: — Yes sir. 



Q: — Did you feed silage? 



A: — For about five or six months. 



Q:— You think at the present time, if feeding a grain ration youi 

 would increase more? 



A: — My cows lost 50 pounds of milk in a day, twelve cows, and I was 

 feeding $2.00 a day to those cows. 



— You think you can carry your cattle through on this system? 



— I think so, have been at it over thirty days. 



—You say that they lost 50 pounds when feeding grain ration ; d > 



you think they will hold out in this? 



A: — I think they will. It is an experiment at my own cost. 



Q: — Do thecows seem to be satisfied? 



A:— They are now. At first they were not. I did not quit ttheir 

 grain ration all at once. I took ten days to do it in. I took and fed them 

 clover hay at grain feeding time when they were looking for something, 

 to eat; took their attention off the grain. 



