| Show DM Y R 16 PROFITS INCREASED BY SILO dairyman should be ready to take advantage of opportunities to ri re duce his expenses by J E DORMAN if a dairy farmer were told that ho bo could roll silver dollars down a hill and then pick up two dollars fo for r every one he be rolled down and this statement 14 y 4 1 stave silo capacity 80 tons size 1428 feet cost coat no roof clay floor was by some of hla his neighbors and hundreds of other dairy farmers in the country that farmer would stay up nights and roll the dollars dol lais but when told that he could double the profits by the use of the silo he becomes very indifferent and keeps on in the same old rut feeding dry teed feed wasting nearly half of his bis corn crop and doing a lotof lot of unnecessary work in these days of close competition dairymen should be ready to take advantage of every opportunity to re X 7 lisaj W wa fy modified wisconsin silo capacity tons s size ize 1800 feet cost complete with roof and concrete floor duce the cost of production and it will be found that it la is easier if the proper methods are used to do that than to raise the selling price of the dairy products the results are the same a large net nei profit in the corn plant about 40 per cent of the feeding value la Is in the stalk and 60 per cent in the ear when the ear alone Is fed nearly halt half of tile the corn crop is wasted where the dry stalks are fed at least half of them remain uneaten while if stored in the silo the loss is almost nothing every dairyman knows that cows will do their best on frebla june p pas 11 ll ture the gratis grana Is cuccu succulent lent and I 1 pal al actable and tile the conditions for a maxi daxl mum milk flow are ideal theao con dit editions ions however do not last very long the silo cornea comes as aa near to supplying the ideal conditions as aa anything that can be f found 0 0 und and tt it la available every day in t the lie year it provide ei B a uniform feed for every oud one of the twelve months I 1 highly sensitive dairy cows resent I 1 any sudden a or r vig ent change in feed an and d wilf show it by a af decreased milk flown now the change bromall fro mall fall pasture to dry feed to Is ft always 1 l wa Y s followed by a shrinkage in tile the milk in chan changing gilig from the pasture to the silage the c hange change la is not oct 60 great and often thet the cowa cown increase the flow ol of milk when started on silage flU age several dairymen have recently mado made the state statement meni that the Inc erased profits paid for ille iho ol silo lothe the first year FOR USE IN IM MILKING COW COVY y invention of florida man n provides vertical partition between milk er and aa the scientific american in describing a sanitary structure turo and milking appliance invented bya by 0 at lummis of fort myers fla a says this athis invention provides a vertical partition interposed between the cow and the and at d constructs the same with a larga lara opening ope nigg over and in which a flexible formed of rub her bar skin or fabric and alad having holes tor insertion of the cows teats Is applied so BO as to completely exclude foreign substances from access to the milk pall thus thiis in place of taking a 4 pail or machine to a cow when giddin tied in the open ar in a stable the daw Is taken to a particular turo ture and is confined iller therein elit while be F 5 i appliance for milking cow ing milked the engraving a cro cross ss section of a pow cow stall or stable and an adjoining compartment where the la Is located the jersey cow in proportion to h her pr live weight the jersey fth larg piA JJ fr AID on g the daliy dairy jr breeds eeds anthe and the can bo depended upon to ici druco liar her product escono aaflie the country gentleman in the st louis breed test the jerseys consumed but 2955 pounds of oe nutriment in producing a pound of milk solids to produce the same weight of milk solids the Holst ol steins elna required of nutriment and other breedh still more As a dairy producer he jersey unites quantity i economy A cow co testing the universal interest in the problem of in sing dalry profits through tho the ctr in associations shows that dt Ss s are willing to learn bette 15 yv ec oci pa lug ing proof to sui ala a theory comm n scrub cow the scrub aw w Is altogether too common eve i though the herd la its made up of thing but registered stock a rather strenuous campaign of selecting tn st bo be conducted all tho the time car in spraying in spraying the cows be careful that a genera a quantity of the tion Is ardt ot their backs especially just behind 10 a shoulders since at these J Is 3 difficult tor for the ani mals flati aff tho the flies files |
