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A: — With a corn binder. 



Mr. Dalling: — Had considerable experience with stacking corn and 

 cutting it; always husk it. I always stack my fodder; tried shred- 

 ding it, but I shan't shred again. 1 started in the middle and stacked two 

 bundles up to each other. So we started in that way%nd run off and by 

 keeping up the middle and not getting them flat you always keep the 

 fodder where the rain will run off. 



Mr. Mason: — That's the way a stack has got to be made. If you 

 want to keep it so, stack the middle, that gives it a way for the rain to 

 run off and not spoil the fodder. If you keep the middle full and the 

 sidas lean from it, you will have no trouble. 



A Member: — I have tried the shredded fodder; I find I can get as 

 much good in providing fodder not shredded as that that is shredded. 



Mr. Mason: — We like the round stacks the best. You have got to 

 keep the middle filled; fill in the middle like stacking oats; it will 

 come out easier than from a rick. 



Q: — Isn't your stack exposed more to the surface? 



A: — Put a good top on it. 



Mr. King: — It seems to me that with all this talk about stacking 

 corn on the slant, that a farmer ought to know that water won't run up 

 hill. I have built many and many a stack of grain to the present date, 

 and invariably when building a stack had that in view, that water won't 

 run up hill. My stacks are slanted so they will shed water. We get 

 our bundles slanted and then the water will run off. The question is 

 how to preserve it. I never found it so well as when left in the field and 

 taken to the yard as we wanted it. If we get our profit out of it, :t 

 must be done with the smallest amount of labor. 



Q: — Then comes a bog snow and thaw and freeze and what then? 



Mr. Mason: — Then every stalk will be frozen down; you will have 

 to chop it lose; a great deal will be wasted. Some winters during the 

 past 20 years it would be literally impossible for weeks at a time to get 

 it 0111 of the field. 



Mr. Coolidge: — The Agricultural Stations tell us that corn fodder 



