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Show Silo Profit Is in the Feeding Daily Farms and Live Stock Feeders Declare Silage Is Essential. The proof of the silo profit is in the feeding. Wisconsin has proved the economy of this. If the value of si-Inge si-Inge in the live stock ration was known nil over this land as well as it is in this state, where there Is one silo to every 30 head of cattle, there woul'' be 2,000.000 silos built in America iu the next three years. All the evidence is In favor of this feed as a profit-bringing, milk-making and beef-building ration. Corn silage can be grown and put into the silo for less than $6 a ton. Some reports set the cost figures as low as $5 a ton. This is crediting the corn as being worth about 04 cents a bushel. Value of Silage. Experts In different states claim that when butterfat is selling for 45 cents a pound, corn silage will bring the dairy farmer $10 ter ton, and when fat steers are selling from $9 to $10 per hundredweight, corn silage Is worth from $7 to $S per ton. The owner own-er of a silo with a fair yield of crop can receive a value from his corn made into silage of $70 to 980 an acre when fed to steers and $100 when fed to good dairy cows. It has been proved that, with dairy animals, the feeding of silage saves from 8 to 15 cents on the cost of producing pro-ducing a pound of butter, and from 30 to 50 cents on producing 100 pounds of milk. For beef production the saving sav-ing produced by silage is about $1 per 100 pounds of gain. It is true that the horse is decreasing decreas-ing in numbers, but the cattle census must be kept up and will be kept up by the steady demand for milk and meat. It is probable that the values placed upon silage as given above will be considered ' too low before next spring. Make Study of Silo. It is just the time to make a study of their value and economy, watching the feeding through the winter and letting the facts stand as proof that thousands more should be set to work making money for stockmen. Experiment Experi-ment stations, dairy farms and live stock feeders all over the United States have proved that the silo is of highest importance in the economic production of stock and stock products. prod-ucts. The half-million progressive stock farmers who are using silos find them indispensable. For many years we have urged the trial of the silo as a money maker. Wisconsin Agriculturist. |