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Show PROFITS INCREASED BY SILO Dairyman Should Be Ready to Take Advantage of Opportunities to Reduce Re-duce His Expenses. (By J. E. DOR-MAN.) If a dairy farmer were told that he could roll silver dollars down a hill and then pick up two dollars for every one he rolled down, and this statement was verified by some of his neighbors and hundreds of other dairy farmers in the country, that farmer would stay up nights and roll the dollars. But when told that he could double the-profits the-profits by the use of the silo he be comes very indifferent and keeps on in the same old rut. feeding dry feed, wasting nearly half of his corn crop and doing a lot of unnecessary work. In these days of close competition, dairymen should be ready to take advantage ad-vantage of every opportunity to reduce re-duce the cost of production, and it will be found that it is easier, if the Stave Silo Capacity 0 tons, size 14x23 feet; cost $132.. No roof, clay floor. proper methods are used, to do that than to raise the selling price of the dairy products. The results are the same; a large ne't profit. In the corn plant about 40 per cent, of the feeding value is in the stalk and 60 per cent, in the ear. When the ear alone is fed. nearly half of the corn crop is wasted. Where the dry stalks are fed, at least half of them remain uneaten, while if stored in the silo the loss is almost nothing. Every dairyman knows that cows will do their .best on fresh June pasture. pas-ture. The grass is succulent and pat Modified Wisconsin Silo Capacity 150 tons; size 18x30 feet; cost, $230, complete with roof and concrete floor. atable and the conditions for a maximum maxi-mum milk flow are ideal. These conditions, con-ditions, however, do not last very long. The silo comes as near to supplying the ideal conditions as anything that can be found, and it is available every day in the year. It provides a uniform feed for every one of the twelve months. Highly sensitive dairy cows resent any sudden or violent change in feed, and will show it by a decreased milk flow. The change from fall pasture to dry feed is always followed by a shrinkage in the milk. In changing from the pasture to the silage, the change is not so great, and often the cows increase the flow of milk when started on silage. Several dairymen have recently made the statement that the incerased profits paid for the silo the first year. |