Show SILO YOUR BEET TOPS Much has already been said and written about your beet tops tops but it is a noticeable fact tact that many farmers at the last minute have given up the idea and are neglectIng neglecting neglecting neglect neglect- ing to care for this valuable byproduct byproduct byproduct pro by duct of the beets Of course the tho tops have s same some me value as a manure If It left upon the theland theland theland land but dur during ng the present year ear of high priced alfalfa hay and the high price of beef you can ill afford to loose this crop or even utilize 1 It as pasture where so much of its value Is is wasted If your crop of beets yield ten tons you ou may reasonably expect to gather four or five tons of t tops ps for silage This is valued at per per ton when hay Is 1200 or at t 1000 if it hay is 1500 1600 This year the latter price applies at present with a prospect of even higher prices before the winter Is over This makes makee your tops worth between and and v per per r acre shoed I value After the beets are aro furrowed and topped as our contract calls for this year jt it is only a matter of small expense ex expense ex- ex pense penso to put them in the pitOne pit One man can easily pile either cither b by hand or fork five acres of at tops lops per day and two with a team can easily haul and pit an equivalent amount A total for five acres being 3 days work with a man at say per da day or 1200 One day with a team or 1500 to care for five acres er er acre or about GO cents per ton Add to this the cost of your silo which will only be small your beet tops cost coat you OU per ton or less lesa You could sell your our tops in the field for perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps to per ton making your total cost per ton What Investment can you make where you OU obtain per cent interest interest in In- terest terent on your money in such Buch a short time Furthermore It does not require the tho investment of any great groat amount of cash as the work may be bo very largely dono done by your own labor and andt t equipment If you do not figure it as an Investment investment In In- vestment consider it as a wage proposition pro pro- position Your beet tops in the field would be worth say 2500 for 5 acres of often often often ten tons yielding beets With three days day's single handed labor with a team one day you make those same tops worth Suppose it should cost you 2500 2600 for silo room Your wages for your tops would be bo or a day for your our time timo and for your team eam Can COon you ou beat bent It anywhere on tho the farm or elsewhere Farm Farm Bureau News Nowa I |