Show FARMERS OF SOUTHERN UTAH USE TRENCH SILOS LOGAN 0 aan farmers Far meia ot or southern utah aro 0 not going to take tiny any risks itaka this year lit in preparing paring teed feed tor for their livestock for they aro are planning to buld trench silos ellos and fill then them with c rn aporta a IV IV owens assistant director actor for agriculture 0 of tho the utah state agricultural collego ex extent lon sel selvino vico in a recent visit to iron county mr owens aisted a number oi of farmers who had hooded beetle the aalee of lion service workers and built and tilled filled trench silos allos areas amas stance ot of carowan parowan tilled filled ills trench with whole corn and soaked it good with water ater from tile hose iio employed t two wo boys on ponies pones to pack the silage in tile tho pit which was about ten tail feet deep ten tell feet wide and eighty foot long end and held more than 70 tons after tile the silage was thoroughly packed sir mr stones covered it with wet straw and topped it with one toot foot of dirt on november 14 lie ho opened tho ilia silo As tho the was 14 degrees below zero lie he had to cut the teed feed out with on ELI a ax X but ho he found that tile the frost had bad not mot damaged di maged the teed wili wil the aldage find and a small amount of cottons cottonseed oed calm cake mr tr stones tod fed 35 15 head ot of livestock through tile the winter ile iio reports report a that ho he had no loses no sick animals and the he calves were normal both among tile tho dairy animals and tho the boot mr stones said that the uso iso ot of a trench latronch silo allo Inel increased leased the feeding possibilities of ills his farm per cent centa and it saved him boo last winter sam abbott ot of Parag oonah chopped ills bis corn but ho reports similar afi tillar success cattle horses sheep and chickens led fed from tile the silo and mr abbot was supplied pile with vill ega for the first time dur ing the winter months month to plenty of 0 teed feed tor for an adverse your mr abbott is malting making plans to build two trench ill silos 1 1 this year one will be held in reserve and one fed each yeav beall 1 I had rd always considered corn too difficult to handle said mr abbe flibott tt therefore tha I 1 had not bothered with it much but now with a trench silo I 1 find that there la Is no waste there 13 not any harm ham done la in fr dylr md the carrying capacity of rh 1 nn n i greatly increased increase parm farm of ti state who are gnp he in fc ing of trench rilous can obtain nation mation tor for construction by calling tn en a county a ant ov or by bi 1 liin d dim w ly IY to the ln li r too at the atje college at logan |