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ELEMENTAKY AGEICULTURE 



Saving It All. In some places the corn is husked, 

 or picked, standing in the field and the cornstalks 

 are burned. This is a great waste, for cornstalks 

 make good food for horses, cattle, and sheep, and 

 they like it very much. A machine which husks 

 the corn and shreds the tops and leaves makes a 

 feed called corn stover that is as good for live stock 

 as timothy hay. Making fodder into stover saves it all. 



Fig. 68. Filling the silo. 



A Great Discovery. Every farmer knows that 

 cattle like green feed much better than dry. But for 

 a long time nobody knew how to keep feed green 

 through the winter. Many years ago, in Europe, 

 a stack of wet, green grass was covered with earth 

 by accident. "When winter came this stack was 

 uncovered and the grass was still green and juicy. 

 It was greatly relished by the cattle. 



