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Show PROFITS INCREASED BY SILO Dairyman Should De Ready to Take Advantage of Opportunities to Reduce Re-duce His Expenses. (By J. K I 0 II MAN.) If a dairy farmer were told that h4 could roll silver dollars down a bill 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 tho country, that farmer would stay up nights and roll the dollars. Hut when told that ho could double the prollts by tho use of the silo he bo-comes bo-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 opimrtunlty to reduce re-duce the cost of production, and It will bo found that It Is easier, if the 1 hm ijji JJ!I! Stave Silo Capacity 0 tons, slxe 14xC8 feet; cost $132.. No roof, clay floor, proper methods are used, to do that than to raise the selling prl"o of the dairy products. 'I'ho results uro tho same; a largo net profit. In tho corn plant about 40 per cent of tho feeding value In In the stalk and CO per cent. In the ear. When the car alone Is fed. nearly half of Uie corn crop is wasted. Where the dry, stalks are fed, at least half of thetn remain uneaten, whllo If stored In tho silo tho loss Is almost nothing. Every dairyman knows that cows will do their best on fresh Juno pasture. pas-ture. The grass Is succulent and pal- fifHnr Mi ! ip Mi .1 ! i 5 , I I H i I II . ,i" 1 ' i i j; ' , I i i i : iii ' I : I ! ; 1 4-4' j I Modified Wiaconaln 811c Capacity ISO tons; size 18x30 feet; cost, $230, complete with roof and concrete floor. stable and the conditions for a maximum maxi-mum milk flow are ideal. These conditions, con-ditions, however, do cot last Tery long. The silo comes as near to supplying the Ideal conditions as anything that can be found, and It Is available every day In tho 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 chungo from fall pasture to dry feed is always followed by a shrinkage In tho milk. In changing from the pasture to the silage, the change Is not so great, and often the cows increase tho flow of milk when utarted on silage. He vera! dairymen have recently mado the statement that the Incerased profits paid for the bIIo the first year. |