Show SILO IS A NATIONAL FACTOR all great industries depending on live stock are am advocating use of hugo huge receptacle dy BY A i tha lead loading ing agricultural subject or of the tha day Is tha silo and its coming Is of national importance Import anco no subject ftp receiving so BO much att attention antion from the experiment stations stati ond farm papers and farmers institutes all tho the groat great ini in dus destries tries depending on live stock such as tho the stock yards creameries crea meries ing houses aad transportation comi panIe Baro advocating its ita use it Is IB a conservation subject of great importance tor for with it can be saved a largo large part rt of our principal crop nearly 40 1 per cent of tho the food elements of the tha corn crop of this country are now being wasted by tuo the use of tuo the silo this could bo be saved and by so dolog hundreds ot of millions of doll dollars ars could bo added to our national wealth tho co corn rn forage firaga which annually goes to in this country la in often referred to as the billion dollar waste Is it any wonder wo we are complaining of tho the high cost of living in the tha past eleven years yeara tho the great stock industry of tho the united states in comparison with our population has been showing a decline this condition ila ha been largely brought about by the rise of price in all kinds ol of I 1 A panel silo stock this in has driven many men out of the stock business and dis cou raged others from going in with tho the silo ello tho the cost of producing stock steel and stock products can be greatly lowered experiments have shown that by tho the use of the silo in place of the old feeding methods butter can ba produced from nine to ten cents per pound cheaper and a saving baving made on the production of beef from to 2 per hundred pounds As the largest part of our food comes from live stock it Is plain to see pee the relation of the silo to our national foods food supply silage enn can bo be made from nearly all kinds of farm forage and Is a good and cheap ration for horses cattle sheep swane and chickens it requires little storage space Is a labor saving baving device doubles the value of 0 tho the corn crop triples the stock carrying capacity of the land restores the fertility of the soil and returns its user annually one hundred per cent on n tho the investment |