Show fa IT Y CHEAP FEED MADE CHEAPER BY SILO small silage cutters reduce big expense of labor by BERT S GITTINS GIT TINS in the dakota farmer fanner men who cannot afford high priced reeds feeds and who hail had to cut expenses on every corner have been the most loyal and enthus enthusiastic lastic friends of the silo ello when they found silo filling costs higher than necessary and the work of oiling filling harder than they liked these dalry dairymen nien and feeders turned their attention to cutting costs and lightening labor rather than allow their silos to stand wastefully idle and to operate without a feed wf ich gave them 30 to 85 35 per cent greater returns for their corn crop they managed instead to eliminate a great deal of unpleasant ollo filling backache and to make this cheap corn belt roughage still cheaper old silo filling ring has pissed out of the picture lu in many sections ot of the corn belt and the small crew of two three or four men has taken its place under the old method the silo owner was compelled to spend two or three weeks exchanging work with his neighbors every fall with the new plan he fills his own silo when tits hla corn ts Is ready without waiting for anyone else to finish first nod and without hiring extra men small individually owned and operated ensilage cutters driven by the form farm tractor or nn an electric motor have made possible this minimum expenditure of man labor present day small email or medium sized cutters will take feed very nicely without a man at the feed table experience shows while it Is becoming more generally conceded every year that s tramper inside the silo Is unnecessary thus the man on the wagon Is the only one needed tit at the silo he can start the tractor or motor when lie he comes in with busload his load by the turn of a crank or by closing a switch and can level out dut the ensilage in the silo after he has unloaded it if lie he wishes in many instances farmers have filled silos alone in this way although crews of two or three men are more co common minon evidence Is accumulating that the weight of silage in itself insures proper packing the extent of settling Is a measurement of packing proteins in ration of dairy cows important the proteins in foods are chiefly used by the animal for the production of lean meat lahd the repair of Us sues BUGS 1 e for growth and maintenance purposes but they may if sufficient in quantity also be used for supplying heat bent and making fat though they are not so economical tor for these thene purl purposes oses as starch and suar in milk producing animals the proteins in the food have also aldo to supply the raw material for the proteins in n the milk of which there Is 3 to 4 per cent say one pound in every three gallons while the proteins can also malte male fat and give heat it Is most important to remember that no other substance can replace them in the making of muscle milk casein and nl ni bumen etc hence rations for all ant animals must contain enough proteins to supply the needs of the animal for repairs of tissues growth and the production of milk |