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Q: — Do you cut up your corn and put it in the barn? 



A: — We put it in large shocks. We get it in the stacks all we can't 

 feed before the first of January. 



Q: — How do you stack it? 



A: — Round stacks 4 or 5 loads, or in neks. Some folks think fod- 

 der is not good if kept over a year. I have threshed them the next year 

 and gone up a °an of milk. 



Q: — What di. vou thresh it with? 



A: — A regular corn thresher, separates all corn husks and cleans 

 the grain. 



Q: — Use corn husker? 



A: — No, corn thresher. 



Q: — Ever kept it two years? 



A: — Yes, I suppose the older the corn the stronger it is. Would not. 

 think the fodder would be as nice and green as it is. 



— Ever try sweet corn? 



— Never had much experience with sweet corn. 

 — Do you use the Canada peas? 

 A:— Yes. 



— How many bushels to the acre? 



A: — A bushel to the acre, with a bushel and a half of oats. 



Q: — How many bushels? 



A: — One bushel or one and one-half bushels. It will make a good 

 soiling crop to feed; something to carry the cattle over the dry weath- 

 er. 



Q: — About stacking corn fodder; is it stacked like wheat and 

 slants? 



A: — Just like stacking oats 



Q: — Isn't great care needed in making it very slanting? 



A: — No, sir. 



Q: — How dry must it be? 



A: — Pretty dry, or it is liable to heat and damage. 



Q: — Cut in the field and cut when glazed with a corn harvester?' 



