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Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-30 | Page 12 | Silage Plants Will Conserve Big Feed Crop

Type issue
Date 1918-08-30
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Silage Plants Will Conserve Big Feed Crop
Type article
Date 1918-08-30
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text t J B P I WILL BIG FEED at I Successful Recent 1 Have Proven Value j B Beets YIELD of 1 GREATER THAN ALP N. N G. G pj IN Of P p. p I Sugar Co Tells or of Discover Disco Equaling i It not all all' alla a a. lar e new MW feed abie this Year ear crop will ti f lor f the sUccessful tt Co Ing i ling or of ensilage tA from e The experiments sug et were ere cler the COD 1 Jones department general SUI r of J I or of l an I erl CO covering practically exhaustive ng- ng the rv Ir results report I. I i IA i Is ot of rt It t 1St ta Ik I 1 I I I t t f J i f I f I 1 I I I I I i I I I I I I 1 i I I I I I I I United St States te i. i Mr Jr J n success la in aU all th the t and I is o er I the tho work th N. N c th the Peoples People's I et SU SUgar at com discussed with au Mr lr Jon Jones r. b of the tie he t Ul experiments a stated d that specific instances Instance i definitely to atai proved pro the rhe feeding t f beet would I lJ th the available feed Th Tho or of the six new tt fj tons per acre as 81 co Ol j three nn and one one-h one half one halt lt tons toad Pt at se t i-t a good oo crop of Qt alfalfa t J ham Continuing h laid new feed eel Is la truly wor l I t. t Instance Mr Ir Jones told a rt of a tado rado experiment I be beien I were left leet with a fare h b Itt ti 1 the tops an and store them I f r laid down b by agricultural t-t t experimenters Upon tul ii IM farmer armel for Cor a report of or bt l 0 t the new plan Mr Ir Jones the entire district was vas io enthusiasm Many Inny other be Jc made In t the tho o thIs JUT JUr 54 Mr Mi il Jones Jones' Instruction to 10 o Include the digging of or a BU It with straw ant and filling Cluing it i III Uis the beet beat tops top The trench U is lh tt j m m-j m nl ered cred with earth and allowed to h Ur M ia disturbed for n a period of or I abt rj rl j I weeks In lii the thc experiment jut Jart I au-I I. I I Honed the farmer Carmer did not to nt nf sil i instructions to the letter for tor he ht lai I 1 i ha had lined hl his trench with i Ur uj filled It with beet top topi h hs e I he ha had made It tal too loo T.-Ide T. to be totem cots i without great reat labor an and difficulty El Eti th then n built a 1 temporary tempora fence ir i I the filled tilled trench and turned a f 1 i sheep Into the enclosure to M bH 0 11 I nights for several days At 1 tbt Ua l set for Cor the uncovering of IS be he chopped the material oat tot IB in i blocks and placed It In alfalfa fie I where the animals could cIt H HI Hf 54 I I stated state that without t the f I II tt tie the hogs and sheep and atwell at it well left leet the a alfalfa grain grais aM den denother I other feed on the farm for Cor lh the M B u oe beet tops tois of ot which they f cou could Id not get enough One at SU Suar Sur CIt I whom I rec recently visited II m. m acres of oC sugar beets and saie sited I lit tops of the beets beela for or enil Hel H t M Mme me his yield was wu twelve e tons Iacre t I tk Je 1 acre of which 00 00 tons tona were ig Ut W aH 1 went ent into the silo and made calle IU its t tm keet t teed cell eed ho has yet hall hail for lor his hit j The rue tops are very high In food tm il u md d seem to be In the natu of or euert or stock as every other wrt rl ni d f f teed rud i ven grains will be untouched If It t I tIe I beet tops can be Md 1 J U U- evo the farmers Carmen will 5 be e quick t to te i ie race ru ra- e le the great reat alue value of or the tte tc tops TU TIe silo lench-silo method is 18 cheap but bat Gt rete silos similar ot 01 w wed we for corn eurn and other green stored bode tood elf art I of or course letter Jetter i I Mr Ir sl slated ted that ctt had also aiso been worked out for Cor fertilizers In silos Th The material matern deI plot not deteriorate when kept ket u w tr m and tho the proposal Is Iii to fill li ill I with fertilizers and then rOTt Y water In the the tilt natt a 1 drawn off Into tall ad J Os the permanent crop cropP Tb TIlt The fral w-i w 1 vantage e of or this his method II WI manure manuro worms worm the source If f m loss to beet heet men and others ire ITO H b by the tho water and when thes n J JI IS 0 spread pral it I iti immediately J Jand and aUlI Is clean and fresh aD aol and U ii i a s 5 smore more adaptable condition LbS tua tIes tl scattered ell dry I In n the tall fall A great reat deal of or t I f ii 11 or done during the beet d J If j In efforts to turn tora Il IC w ra j jure ure ore worms Into tho the they perish but hut many t 7 taS have suffered Muttered thousands or of year yearly earl from them The Dew rI water In method he 18 sayo lU F fatal to all injurious ln d 40 The Thc new lIew method of I J Ja a away wn with unsightly nod ld ed US UI plies piles of oC the material and i Ili Ft- Ft U great reat benefit to farming fanning rJ I in Improvement of or tb the tho f fertilizers I r
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