OCR Text |
Show o SAVE EVERY CORN STALK. On the 6,000,000 farms of this country where cows are being milked there are approximately 600,000 silos or one silo to each 10 farms. There should be a silo on every farm and, realizing the necessity for conserving the corn crop in the best possible manner this year as never before, thinking farmers are going to build silos in greater numbers num-bers than ever. But if there were a silo on every farm, there would yet be vast amounts of useful food nutriments allowed to go to waste for want of storage capacity. The silo has done more than merely conserve and provide pro-vide one of the most useful of animal foods. It has brought with it the corn harvester, the silage cutter and the necessary engine for furnishing power. Because of this a comparatively inexpensive step is necessary for the farmer to take in order to begin saving the remainder of the corn stalks, leaves and shucks which have heretofore hereto-fore been largely wasted. He can do this by practicing economy to the extent of investing in a shredder: By the use of the modern corn harvester less time is required to harvest and shock a field of com than to shuck it and, with the same power that is available for operating operat-ing the silage cutter, a corn shredder or husker, furnished furn-ished with a cutter or shredder head, can be operated. The entire process is no more expensive than shucking the corn by hand and allowing the stalks, leaves and husks to dry up, blow away, or become covered with snow and waste. Corn stover reduced to its most valuable form represents repre-sents material almost equal in feeding value to timothy hay. In fact, the dairyman who has corn silage and shredded shred-ded or cut stover available has no reason for feeding additional ad-ditional carbonaceous roughage. Such he may sell with a clear conscience, deposit the money secured from them in the bank, and yet, and yet rest assured that his livestock live-stock will winter as well as though he had fed them the more expensive carbonaceous roughage and that the production pro-duction of milk and butterfat will be equally as great. Kimbairs Dairy Farmer. |