| Show Silo Building Demonstration at Cornwall Farm Draws Crowd Nearly a hundred farmers gathered at the farm of or A. A M. M Cornwall on Tuesday to witness the demonstration tion tion-of tion of the building of or a pit solo for beet tops by James W. W Jones of the Bureau of Plant Industry Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture The attendance attendance atten atten- dance of such a goodly number of representative representative representative re re- re- re farmers was certainly a compliment to the growing popularity popular popular- ity of Professor Jones in this community community community com com- It is a pleasure to listen to toa toa toa a man who has come up from the ranks s and knows from practical exper experience fence of the things of which he speaks and that is just what makes maItes Jones entertainIng entertaining entertaining en en- and Instructive Teams were on the ground early The silo was laid put 12 feet by 40 feet by 5 feet deep excavating to a depth of four feet in the ground and the extra foot to be made up by banking banking banking bank bank- ing up the sides sides above ground This will give a capacity of from eighty to toone toone toone one hundred tons according to the manner in which the tops ar settled in the silo Jones told us that the chief fund- fund In tops like corn or clover was to exclude the air the principal being that where b by careless work in permitting air to got get in the wrong bacteria Is allowed to work causing causing- rot or manure manure manure man man- ure ure instead of the curing curIng- which preserves preserves preserves pre pre- serves the silage for an indefinite period He would increase the width of or the silo rather than cut it down on of or greater ease in filling by driving in one end md nul out the other V ne lle he lie rE ends to be built milt slanting the ides should be perpendicular and dressed dresse down smooth even and straight The depth should be bo just t is us a great reat as your Ila land d will permit without having haing water In the bottom for the deeper It is the tho easier to pack it to exclude the air lIe He says Put a small boy boyon boyon boyon on a horse and ride around th the sides to be sure that part is well comp compact compact- ct- ct ed If It you do not have a n boy of your own borrow one from your neighbor Driving through with each load while filling being careful to drive in a n different place each time will also aid materially In compacting it It is possible to leave the tops in the field as much as three or four tour weeks before but for the best results they should be put in as fast as the topping topping- is done Emphasis is placed upon the necessity of first using the tho tops to cover the piles of or beets in the field to prevent loss of weight of beets before hauling which ho he says often otten amounts to as much as ten per percent percent percent cent or a ton to the acre and toppers should be required to cover all beets not hauled that day Then If it the tops are used for covering covering- the beets heets they can be carefully piled when removed removed removed re re- re- re moved from the beet piles and will then remain n good condition if It not for tor some time As to feeding value he asserted itIs it itis itis is his belief that the products by-products of the beet crop were worth as much for feeding stock stocks stock as the three cuttings s of alfalfa hay and that we should be just justas as anxious to get the tops taken taleen care of at at the proper time without damage e by the elements as we should be to get In a crop of or hay without getting g it wet Many other ther very important points were brought out in the discussion which followed and the answers he gave ave to the many questions which were shot at him by tho the rapid fire I guns of the men present Upon the whole we wc believe we-believe believe clIeve this was the most important meeting that has been held in the valley within the p past st twelve months Mr 1 Opp and Mr 1 Cornwall told of or the res results they had obtained during the past year as a result of caring for a few cows The he results are really astounding but facts that may well be studied by others Mr 1 Jenkins was heartily received and responded in his usual keen foresighted foresighted foresighted fore- fore sighted way that teaches us to do a little of our own thinking rather rat er than depend to much on the tho other fellow The man who for any reason failed failed failed fail fail- ed to attend this meeting has missed something that he will always have reason to regret |
