Show SILO SHOULD BE REGARDED AS NECESSITY ON STOCK FARM haze buge receptacle Is no longer an experiment and Is as valuable to man who breeds stock as to dairyman silage very materially decreases cost of putting pound of beef onto feeding steer we ak have been laboring in season and out ot of season to induce farmers to build ellos silos the ello silo Is no longer an experiment it has been used bv dairymen with success tor for thirty years it was tor for a long time supposed that it could only be used in dairying says the wallace fanner farmer we have found out now that it Is almost as val cable to the man who grows stock as to the man who milks cows we aro finding out that silage very materially decreases the cost of putting a pound of beef onto a feeding steer we have found out that it Is good tor for the ewe tor for the brood sows bows and for young stock of all kinds as well as for dairy cattle the only animal on the place to which it is not safe to feed it Is the horse just why N we e do not know it Is perhaps entirely safe if of good ity but dangerous it if moldy we are finding out still more about silage namely that by using a sum mer ello silo one about half the size of the winter one we can bridge over the droughts which come in every coun suppose you cannot fill one mans silo before it Is dry you can cast easily y remedy that by putting in wat water er we have done it and it works finely you can even take the corn that stands in the field ready tor for husking and make good silage out of it it if you put IP ir water enough or you can plant plant som sorghum and corn and let the aban dance of 0 moisture in the sorghum make for the deficiency in the corn all these things are worth thinking about what we want to upon your minds just now la Is that you cannot afford not to build a silo it if you are in the stock business you can no more do without a manure spreader or a grain drill there are 31 amo me things that are well ell settled over most of our territory there are sections say ray in the extreme north where it Is more of a question as to whether one should build a silo or not because these northern farmers can grow roots to much greater advantage than we can and alige Is not so practicable in a very long and cold winter on ao IV A t t IA 4 V A silo for a stock farm try in the civilized world at some sea eon son ot of the year with us the most dangerous time Is in july and august which are usually periods when the grass Is short and flies are bad we are finding out that by having a summer silo we can provide pasture out ot of the silo until the rains come in the fall some of the readers may shake their heads beads at this but we are telling them agricultural gospel truth they may say while we often have these iry dry periods in july and august we do not always have them some years we have excellent pastures true but your silage will keep almost as well as the fruit your wife heeps keeps over from a year of abundance to a year of want last year we fed on one of the farms belonging to the wallace family silage that w vms as two years old apparently it was just as good as the year it was made why do we talk about it nowa because it you are going to have a silo this fall tor for either winter or summer use you ought to be thinking about it t not about the building of it or the ost sost of it although it Is worthy of thought but where you will plant four your corn to necessitate the least haul ing and diminish the expense about that what kind of silage you want whether rich with corn or scant in corn you an determine that by the thickness tf planting it if you want ant sidge rich in corn to fatten steers you want ant to plant it as you do for the market tor for the maximum of ears but it if you want it to feed to the dairy cows and want k L large yield of stock with small grain yield you must clant it thick the main reason we are talking it now Is because to put up a silo and use it economically you want to enlist the operation cooperation co of your heigh neighbors bors the same silage cutter and the same power will answer tor for two net neighbors ghiors anyhow and andl frequently three but not more have you not a couple ot of neighbors who would be ben edited by having a silo it if they are not convinced of this can you not get them to convince themselves by in vesti gating it 7 then can you not ar range to operate cooperate co in buying a cut ter and what Is quite aa as important in filling he the ee se silos can catt you not agree to plant an early corn and a later variety count of the freezing this however Is only in the extreme northern sec see eions throughout the corn belt the silo should be regarded as an absolute necessity on the stock farm in every section where there is liability of sum mer drought |