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Show The Elgin Dairy, Salt Lake City, pays the highest market price for cream- at all times and gives absolutely absolute-ly the correct test. Wc offer no premiums, for any farmer knows they pay the premium in the long run. Wc arc doing an honest, legitimate business busi-ness and want your cream. Send your cream' in Red cans and we will A send you pay for all the cream delivered. de-livered. ELGIN DAIRY CO. o THE ADVANTAGE OF A SILO ON A DAIRY FARM. Wherever dairying is a leading industry in-dustry on the farm and corn is a crop largely grown, it will pay to have a silo. Well prepared ensilage is one of the best feedls for cows giving giv-ing milk that wc have. It is more like the grasses in its character, paia-bility paia-bility and effects than dried fodder. Where corn is grown largely and entirely for a fodder crop as it is in many parts of the country, it will be worth much more to the farmer to put in the silo than to cure and feed dry. When the crop has reached its best condition, that is when the cars, of which there should be a good amount, arc out of the milk and while the stalks are yet green, then is the time to put it in the silo. It is difficult feeding the dlried fodder, fod-der, especially if it is of the larger varieties, whole without considerable waste. When put in. the silo this large growth becomes softened and retains its succulence, and when rightly fed there should be little or no loss from waste, as it is eaten up clean. In my opinion it requires less work to put the -crop in the silo, than to harvest in the old way and handle over two or three times before it can be placed before the cows or other stock, And further I believe the crop thus cared for will be worth at least one-third more, all things considered, than when fed dry. A large amount of corn can be put in the silo of average size, and when the work is completed it is then under shelter in the best condition now known, and ready for use when wanted. The silo should be thoroughly constructed, con-structed, be air and water tight. The round form is the one now mostly used, and they should not be too large in diameter but of good height, for the better keeping and feeding of the silage. They should be placed where it will be the most convenient, thus saving time and labor. Where there is a large stock to feed it would be better . to have two moderate sized silos than a very large one. Where it is desirable to make use ' of a large amount of green feed in the summer season, a small silo filled expressly for the purpose will be found of the greatest advantage, as experience has proven. Where a crop of corn is well cared and best of them can be broken off to husk and the remainder put in the silo as soon as possible. Not only can corn be made into ensilage, en-silage, although it may be the best crop for the purpose, but clover, alfalfa al-falfa and even oats and rye, when at the proper stage of growth. A silo filled with a mixture of corn and clover would make an excellent feed for stock. Silage should not be fed alone to stock. There should be along with it a portion of dry fodder, and none will be better for this purpose for cows and young growing animals than good clover hay, as that comes the nearest to making a well balanced ration. And then the grain feed should be of such kinds as will help to make the best possible ration for the animals. ani-mals. With such feed as this the cows when fresh in milk shouldi do as well in winter in the production of a good quality and amount of milk, as in the summer if otherwise well cared for. And not only is good ensilage one of the best feeds for cows giving milk, but it will be excellent as a part of the lation for fattening of animals, perhaps per-haps with a little variation in the kind and amount of grain fed with It. For spring calves the following winter and for the older growing animals, ani-mals, silage will be found ve.ry useful as a part of their feed. Try it and you will be surprised to find how well they like it. It can be fed in moderation modera-tion to pigs and brood sows also with advantage. On the farm of the writer there has been a silo for a good number of years, following the old practice of growing fodder corn to cure and feed dry, and the conclusions here arrived at arc largely the results of experience. experi-ence. The farmer rightly situated who builds a silo and makes an intelligent use of it can hardly fail of being pleased with the results and will wonder won-der why he did not do it before. Try it and sec. Get ready to build one another year and then enjoy the bene fits of its use. E. R. TOWLE, Franklin Co., Vt. |