No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 4;;T 



silo is ail absolute necessity for the feeding of cattle for any pur 

 pose whatever, whether for milk, butter or beef, or any other pur- 

 pose. We have found in this way we can utilize tlie corn crop any- 

 where from 25 to 50 per cent, more out of it. I contend that under 

 any circumstances, where you can orow corn you don't want to be 

 without a silo. 



Mli. BRODHEAD: With a silo, where the corn could not be cut 

 by a cutter, could it not be put in a silo whole and taken out witli 

 a cutting spade or something of that kind. Would that not keep 

 all right the same as when cut upon taking from the field? 



MR. LIGHT Y: Does not the question relate to one cow? This 

 would be a very peculiar w^orld if you could not get a cutter, and if 

 you had five cows, it would pay you to get a cutter in a few weeks 

 time. You can store the corn whole if you want to, but it is hard 

 work. You can buy a cutter so cheaply and build a silo so cheaply 

 that it will pay you if you have only three to five cows. 



MR. HALl^; The universal testimony in small-sized silos is that 

 the pressure on the outside next to the foot is not great enough, so 

 that in the small silo you do not receive the same benefit as from 

 the larger ones after they get over ten feet. The pressure on the 

 outside prevents the setting of the ensilage to some extent. 



MR. BLYHOLDER: The next question is: 



*'Is there any evident increase in the value of farm laud in this 

 State?" 



MR. NORTHUP: 1 want to say just a few words in reference to 

 that. There is an increase in our farm value. There is an in- 

 crease up in Lackawanna county, in the northeastern part of this 

 State. And do you know our farm land is going right up there and 

 our farms are getting more in touch with the thickly settled commu- 

 nities, and a trolley line, first one we have ever had, is coming from 

 Scranton and coming right through our section of the country and 

 going up into Susquehanna county and into Wyoming county, and it 

 is going to help us all. It is a great big thing, my friends, and we 

 cannot afford to live in this world without being prepared to do 

 our work, too, on these farms and show to our friends in the city 

 that it is worth while to live in the country. Brother Seeds said 

 there is no home like the Seeds' home, and there is no place to me, 

 in my knowledge, like northeastern Pennsylvania, where we have 

 the finest landscape, most hills and the most beautiful scenery. 

 There is a farmer's daughter from up there who married a man from 

 New Jersey and she came up home and she turned around there and 

 looked over the country and said: "I never half appreciated this 

 home when I lived here among the hills." 



