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Show A 8ILO SHOWING. - For Consideration of the Man Who ,H Doesn't Believe In Silos. Hero Is a nut for you to crack. 0. P. Goodrich took a close, accurate census ot 48 patrons ot crcamerios around tho city ot Fond du Lao, Wis. Ho figured up all tho Items ot tholr expenso In keeping tholr cows, what they fed, etc. Thon ho went to the creamory and got Just what each herd earned and compared them. This Is what ho found: Thoro aro five creamery patrons who fed ensilage. No. 4, who made on butter $29.18 profit per cow; No. 7, who mado on buttor 114.05 per cow; fl No. 17, who mado on butter $13.69 profit per cow; No. 21, with $20.17 profit per cow, and No. 25 with $27.79 profit per cow, Ono cheeso factory patron fed en-sllago. en-sllago. No. 4, whoso profit on milk delivered was $22.2.1. These six silo men averaged $21.02 profit per cow, whllo tho averngo profit of creamery patrons was only $5.94 per cow. Tho gross returns for tho silo men aver-nged aver-nged $52.52 per cow, whllo thoso who H did not fcod ensilage, received on an B averago of but $34.00 por cow, a dlf-forenco dlf-forenco of $18.52 In favor of tho en-sllago en-sllago men. Can anyono doubt, in tho faco ot theso facts, asks Hoard's Dairyman, , that it will pay to build a silo? Is It possible that all this gain in gross rccoipts and profits Is becauso these men feed onsllngo? Or, Is It In part, becauso thoso mcti aro moro progres-slve, progres-slve, up-to-date farmers, havo better dairy cows, study to feed a balanced ration, and, In short, havo less of old fogylsm than ninny ot those who do not have silos? Theso aro questions for you to ponder on and anBwor. My own opinion Is that, although I think any man Is making n great mlstako who keeps a herd of dairy cows with-out with-out huvlng a silo, thu reeding ot en-sllago en-sllago did not, and could not, ot itself, mako this astonishing difference ot over 54 per cent. In gross receipts and moro than 500 per cent. In net profit. 'H |