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Show FEEDING IS IMPORTANT AS I PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF PROFIT - Farmtr Now Provides Uvs Slock Wll h Canned Grttn Fonoer, jt ''',') Called Stlnsro," Mud Mont Commonly From Corn, . .. Cow-Pens. Clover, or Aliiilfn, Chopped Hn nnd Stored In Silos. , , ' .-wiHijAt-dl' 1 '? -; --ir-a- n- : 5 . v. olid Modsrn Concfwt Silo. I Th principal source of profit In dnlrylng, stock raising and farming Ilea In Improving the quality and at the aatn time keeping down the cost of production. In this matter of prollt and losa nothing playa such an lm pnrtant part aa th queatlon nf feeila and feeding. Th nuiural feed for animate, ani-mate, the one on which they do beat, la green pasture. In cllmntee auhject Io frost, man has made the same provision pro-vision for anlmnla aa for himself by providing them In winter with canned green fodder called "sllsge." Milage Is made moat commonly from rorn, row pena, clover, aorghum, or alfalfa, merely mere-ly chopped fine and atored In large aaler tight cana known aa "silos," In Ut segeeoesoeaoj" f 5 t ' Showing Reinforcing. dry weather or In winter, when green pasture cannot be bad, thla feed la equally good In producing a flow of milk or lu putting fnt on animals. One acre of a crop harvested aa allege will feed twice aa much atock as tb same amount harvested In any other manner. man-ner. I.Ike a glass fruit Jnr, a silo must be enter tlKht and Jolntleaa to keep the silage from molding or "dry firing." For this reason, and also becauae no palming or repairing la ever necea-sary, necea-sary, solid wall concrete silos are coming Into general use. The beat allna are built circular In ahape. Tha site tlepetula upon how many animals are to bo fed dally, the quantity In pounds for each anlmal a dally feed, and the number of tlaya it may be necesanry to feed them. The silo ahould be of such alia (hat a barer S of allege at least two Inches In depth JT will be removed each day after fee- f lug haa begun. Thla prevent a thla I top layer from molding. A dairy cow V rrqulrea about forty poumla of allege y per day, and the following table to baeed on thla amount. Torty poaada A la alao the average Wright of a cubic ) foot of allnge. 1 luxate the alio where It will ba eawa- X venlcnt for feeding, dually H as lolned to th bam by means of a chut and passageway with doora. i Since the alio and Ha conlenta ara ' heavy. It mtiat b built on eolld a ground. The bottom of tb foundslloa f ahould go below frost line. Th adlo , may, with advantage, eitend tour to ; five feel Into the ground. Dig tk eat large enough to allow for lha thick- f ties of the circular walla and a foot- lug two fret wld. ;' In order to save lumber tba ooa n rrele la poured Into forma which caul be moved up aa the roncret seta ar , becomes hsrd. These movable foraia roiislat nf two circular shells threw Io four fret high, ao mad that on SU within th oilier with apaca betwwaa for a all-Inch wall. Th hnrtaoatal framework consists of I by 4 Inch U astir as-tir I a rut to a circle, which ara covered cov-ered with sheet metal or wondra but- . . - - ar- glng. Karh pier muat be lone enough to provide for a all foot tkree-Inch tkree-Inch length of th clrrumferenna of tha circle a well aa several Inch for the lap or strap Joints. Tha forma ara I raised by loosening them at lha Jolata I and aettlng lliem up again on tha Sa- I lahed section of the alio. j Concrete for alloa ahould ba rtca la I Portutud cement and ahould ba pot Into the forma mushy wet Mil II oaa I part cement to two parte sand to foar pnrta crushed rock. Kour parts of i clean pit or hnnk run gravel may used Inateud of the sand and fork. Mcaaure all mntrrlnla on the baala that one bag nf cement equala oaa ruble foot. Many persons rale lb concrete In buckets, but the work cm be done more quickly and really by lining a horae together with a derrick der-rick or a well braced Jlb boom fixed Io an adjoining building. The Dial cost of concrete slloa may or tuny mil be greater than thut of ths beat of any oilier kind. The time la now at hand when furmera, Ilk railroads rail-roads and corporal lima, are consider lug the lasting qualities of building, folic icie alloa need no Insurance; they do not blow down or burn up.' They never have to be palmed or r- i pulr.il. With olher kinds of alloa dur- N lug theli short Uvea the eipensea nloiio equal the first coat. Concrete luata forever. |