State Convention - —Butter-Making, Etc. 303 
up clean. I usually sow the Sanford corn. It gives a large growth 
of stalks and keeps green until the frosts come. There is more 
nutriment in it than in any other corn I ever fed. I give them a 
little feed of bran and shorts every time I put them into the stable. 
They go right to their places. They have something to attract 
their attention. With the help of that and the corn-fodder I man¬ 
age to keep up the flow of milk. If I do not use that all up before 
it gets ripe in the fall, I cut it up in good season and put it in 
shocks and continue to feed until winter sets in. It is good feed. 
After it is dried and cured it is still green and has a great deal of 
nutriment in it. As long as I feed corn-fodder I have no trouble 
at all in making good, yellow butter. If there is some corn in it, 
some small ears, all the better. This has been my course in keep¬ 
ing up the flow of milk through the summer. The corn-fodder, if 
I do not use it all, is excellent for winter-feed. Last year my corn- 
crop was a failure; a good deal of it not much corn on it. I find 
even this kind of corn is worth something for feed. It has got a 
good deal of nutriment in the stalk. 
Mr. Anderson: Do you mix the cut-feed with anything? 
Mr. Hazen: No, sir; I feed fodder once a day, and one fepd of 
in arsh-hay. 
Question: How many cows do you keep? 
Mr. Hazen: Fifty. 
Professor Daniells: What power do you run the cutter with? 
Mr. Hazen: I have a wind-mill. I have a wire-cable one hun¬ 
dred and sixty feet, carrying the power into my barn. If we get 
out of feed when there is no wind, we have an old horse-power 
that we use. 
Mr. Anderson: Tell us what kind of a cutter it is? 
Mr. Hazen: I bought a cutter last winter. I think it was made 
at Rochester, New York; four spiral knives on a cylinder, and the 
knives are put on in the shape of an auger. 
Mr. Eaton: I have got one that cuts an inch and a half long; 
how would that effect the cattle? 
Mr. Hazen: I think if it was cut shorter, it would be much bet¬ 
ter. Half an inch or five eighths of an inch is long enough, I think. 
With this feed-cutter we can cut a ton an hour of these stalks. 
It rolls out as fast as the shavings from a planing-mill. 
Question: Would a hard cob be any obstruction? 
