| Show dairying with silage the dairy farmer who undertakes to carry his operations through the winter without silage has uphill work at all the time the tha prosperous dairy tanner farmer seeds down twenty or twenty five acres every year keeps his big straw under cover and grows a good held field ol of corn for or silage every year the sola tiou of the question ot of making cheap milk lies in the silo for good corn sil ell age Is undoubtedly the be best 6 it and cheapest milk producing food t that bat ha bag yet been grown to get best results it must be made from well matured corn and intelligently fed the cut ting Is very important more so than most people imagine in the first place good well built cutters must be employed tor for after the corn Is cut in the field it should bo be put through the cutter and into the silo ello as rapidly as possible the shorter the lengths are cut the closer they pack la in the silo ello hence use a machine which has ample capacity to do the cutting in short lengths and do it fast just keep in mind that you are handling green stuff with the object of 0 putting it up green it Is no trick to make good silage here bere la Is the recipe cut the corn when the kernels are well glazed fill the silo ello as rapidly as possible cut the stalks into pieces say an lah inch long shorter would be bet ter tramp down the corners well see sea that the silo Is perfectly air tight then you have IL 11 L L C brown |
