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A: — Two or three. 



Q: — Make it for the purpose of fodder, not corn? 



A: — Two will make more ;orn. 



Q: — Do you shred your corn fodder? 



A: — Cut it, cutter and thresher combined. 



Q: — Do you raise the corn for the corn and fodder both? 



A: — We raise it for the corn and fodder both. 



Q: — Don't you raise it for the milk ration to? 



A: — Yes, sir. Have to be careful in getting it up, and then we stack 

 it generally, thrash and feed it. A cow will like it fresh. We don't 

 cut up a lot of it at once, but keep it fresh, and we thrash that and; then, 

 grind the grain as fine as possible. Then we have mixed it with bran, 

 same weight; light bran, the lighter the better. 



Q: — Do you get any better results from shredded corn fodder than 

 corn stalks? 



A:— No. 



Q: — What time do you cut your corn? 



A: — When it is ready to cut; when it is glazed like, about the first 

 of September. 



Q 



-What do you say should be the state of the corn 



A: — When it is glazed over and commenced to harden up or dent. 



Q: — Do you let it stand as late as you can before frost? 



A: — Yes, sir. or it should be in the shock before frost or before it 

 dries up. 



Q: — Ever use much oats? 



A: — Never used many oats. 



Q:— They are selling bran S20.00 a ton? 



A: — Yes, I know it. 



Q:— How many kernals did you say to the hill on your corn? 



A: — Two or three. 



Q: — How many cows to the acre around Elgin? 



A:— Vary a good deal. I keep on one of my farms 50 head of cattle 

 on 110 acres; that is a rented form. 



