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take about twenty pounds for one hundred hens, add equal parts of 

 potatoes, ground oats and winter rye, place same in a kettle and bring 

 to a boiling state. Feed warm in the morning, and the result will be 

 that you will be able to market seven or eight dozen eggs per day 

 from one hundred hens throughout the winter, when eggs bring good re- 

 turns." When silage cannot be got, the fine leaves that break off from 

 alfalfa and clover in the handling, when wet with warm water, are a 

 good substitute. 



As a Summer Convenience. — The silo is not restricted to wintei 

 use only. Summer silage feeding is getting to take the place of the 

 soiling system. When land is high in price, cows are often fed in the 

 stable the year round, in summer the green food being brought to them 

 fresh from the fields every day. A larger number of cows can be 

 kept in this way than by pasturing, but with the summer silo a still 

 larger number may be maintained, and that, too, without the annoyance 

 of being compelled to run to the field every day, rain or shine to cut 

 and draw in a jag of green feed. 



THE SILO IN THE SOUTH. 



To preserve food for winter feeding in the south is more difficult 

 than in the north. In the north a shock or stack of corn fodder may get 

 snowed under, but remains green and palatable, while in the south, where 

 the winter wetness is in the form of rain, an exposed stack of corn fodder 

 would soon bleach tasteless if not rot outright. 



The silo should be pushed as the winter pasture for the south as 

 well as for the north. 



Professor A. M. Soule, formerly of Tennessee, now of Virginia, 

 speaking of silage for the south, says : "It is, however, clearly rec- 

 ognized as one of the most economical and satisfactory food stuffs ob- 

 tainable. At the Tennessee Experiment Station four beef cattle have 

 been maintained for 150 days on silage produced on 0.91 acre of land. 

 Every farmer who is interested in the feeding and maintenance of 

 live stock should have a silo." 



Mr. C. L. Willoughby, professor of animal husbandry at the Georgia 

 Experiment Station, Experiment, Ga., in reply to a letter on the subject, 

 says: "The silo has been successful in Georgia for twenty years. I 

 imagine the men who entered the dairy business at all in Georgia have 

 been just as modern in the use of such conveniences as any class of 

 men in America. Those who have used a silo say they could not pos- 

 sibly do without them. They are used all over Georgia, and even in 

 the northern part of Florida, just as readily as in Missouri. We have 

 a wide range of climate in this State. The elevated region in northern 



