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dairy cow. And an ordinary dairy on this feed would produce 

 a can of milk to three cows, and the fodder from which this corn 

 was threshed would furnish the roughage. And at this rate the 

 5,600 pounds would feed the three cows 93 1-3 days, or produce 

 93 1-3 cans of milk, which at $1.00 per can is equivalent to 

 $93.33. Now deduct the price of your bran at $14.00 per ton, 

 which is $19.60, and you have marketed your acre of corn for 

 $73.73, and still have 12 tons of fertility to put back on the land. 

 I will admit that this is not the best way to feed a dairy, but it 

 is a profitable way to market the corn. You might by having 

 good early cut clover hay, produce as much and perhaps more 

 in milk on two-thirds of the grain, but you would not receive 

 as much per acre of land. 



DISCUSSION. 



Q : — Do you use a manure spreader ? 



A : — Yes, sir, when it will run. It does good work in light 

 dt well rotted manure, but in green manure we have a good 

 Tiany breakages. It is not built strong enough to stand the 

 strain. 



O : — How large is it ? 



A : — It holds probably ten bushels. 



Q: — What will that weigh? 



A : — I should judge about 2,500 pounds. 



Q : — How many horses ? 



A : — Two — sometimes three. 



Q : — What kind of spreader. 



A : — Mine is the Kemp. Have had no experience with any 

 Dther kind. 



Q : — When do you put your manure on the field ? 



A : — We haul it daily from the stable to the field, when it is 

 lot too wet. If it is very muddy we put it in a pile. There is 

 lothing worse for land than driving over it when it is wet. 



Prof. Fraser : — You want to grow some clover do you not ? 



A: — Yes sir. We try to have a new piece of feeding each 

 /ear, but often loose it on account of frost. 



