Show county agents column VALUE OF CORN SILAGE are you going to be short of teed feed this year what is the cause ot of the shortage cold weather slow growing I 1 ng season and alfalfa weevil cause caused considerable loss weevil can call be controlled troll ed did lack ot of irrigation water or diseased alfalfa fields cut your hay production the last two causes are hard to control did you know it takes lbs ibs of w water ater to produce 1 ib of dry matter in the form of alfalfa hay and it takes only ggs lbs ibs to produce I 1 lb ib of dry matter in the form of corn silage did you know that corn silage will keep tor for several years with little additional loss did you know that an acre of corn that will produce 12 tons Is equal to more than 35 tons of alfalfa hay or 60 bushels of bailey in digestive nutriments twelve tons can be raised with a lot less water than the alfalfa hay or the barley did you know that corn silage fed with alfalfa hay to dairy cows is woith 75 percent as much as the hay bay or 4 lbs ibs of corn silage is equal to 3 lbs ibs of alfalfa hay did you know that when corn silage is fed to beet beef it is worth ib tor for ib as much as alfalfa did you know when an animal is fed only corn silage 3 lbs ibs will equal as much as I 1 ib of alfalfa hay can you see the value of corn silage corn should be grown on all millard county farms where livestock is kept BETTER BETTE R ANIMALS PAY it pays to select your breeding stock ewes of the same breed weighing moi more e than lb ibs s produced lambs during the same growing period that weighed 27 lbs ibs more than ewes weighing less than lbs ibs twenty two cows making up an exhibit at the richmond black and white day may 15 have produced a total of pounds of milk pounds of butterfat and above feed cost in three years time can a held heid like this be developed on oil one farm would you like to try we need to improve our dairy herds in this county too many good cows have left the county without replacements USE BETTER SIRES have we another drainage problem Is it wise to allow Ini gation water to be distributed over every part of the delta area have we so much ini Iiii gation water that we can afford afford to run canals over acres of land when we have never irrigated more than should we be so foolish as to fill up the soil to its water holding capacity over the entile ales and thus pyramid the possibilities of water logging our area again should we be careful and protect the thousands of acres ol of good soil and farm arm land rather than try to bring under production more land A trip around the entire farming fanning area should show any thinking man and woman that something needs to be done before it is too late should we restrict the area over which the irrigation water should be applied should wo we urge a project to clean out and make more effective many of the open drains should we give the tiled drains a chance to function by cleaning out the open drains should some of the weirs on the canals be lowered in order that the canal may drain more easily should a committee of representative citizens be appointed to look into the problems that we are now being faced with |