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will be said that the restoration of the fertility of 

 our soils began when the silo was invented, for the 

 silo upon the farm changes our methods of feed- 

 ing stock. It takes them from our stock fields 

 and puts them into the feed lot where their ma- 

 nure may be conserved and applied to the soil in 

 the most effective manner. 



The well organized manufacturing plant will 

 employ every means within its power to utilize its 

 entire by-product. To utilize but a portion of it 

 would be regarded poor business policy. But a 

 farmer will erect one silo which will not utilize 

 one-tenth part of his corn crop, then he will gather 

 the balance of his corn and waste the cornstalks 

 upon which it grew. 



Of course the author is aware that it would not 

 be practicable or even possible in every case to 

 silo the entire corn crop on our farms, but a 

 greater amount siloed means more stock upon our 

 farms and a greater fertility for our farms, and 

 the greater fertility means a larger crop yield, 

 and a larger crop yield means more money for the 

 farmer and more food for our people. If, then, 

 it is impractical to silo the entire corn crop, and 

 thus in the best possible manner conserve the by- 

 product, the cornstalk, what method are we to pur- 

 sue so that the cornstalks of that portion of our 

 stalks not siloed, may be conserved? Some of it 

 may be needed in the form of crude fodder to fur- 

 nish the needed roughage required in properly 

 feeding stock when using silage. But there is 

 but one way of utilizing that portion of the corn- 

 stalks left in the fields after their harvests of corn 

 have been garnered, and that is to take the roller 



