CHAPTER XIX 



THE SILO AND SILAGE 



FOR several years past the silo and silage have 

 become matters of great interest to the eastern stock 

 raiser. There is no one branch of the business that 

 strikes deeper into the pocketbook than that of feed. 

 Important as is the subject of breeds and breeding, 

 it can never overshadow that of feeds and feeding. 

 Breed without feed would be of no avail to the 

 stock raiser. Does silage pay? is the first problem 

 to be solved by the man who has not already in- 

 formed himself on the subject. If it does not, or 

 there be some food that is more readily available 

 and can be used with greater profit, the how of 

 raising silage and how to save and feed it are of lit- 

 tle consequence. 



In the early days of the silo in this country, Mr. 

 Devereaux, of Deposit, N. Y., determined to know 

 what it was worth to him. He had followed the tan- 

 ning business until the hemlock bark in this coun- 

 try had been exhausted, and then turned to stock rais- 

 ing. He constructed a silo and filled it with a 

 good crop of corn, raised and stored according to ap- 

 proved methods. He went to Buffalo and purchased 

 thirty-six steers. These he divided into two lots of 

 eighteen each, weighed them, and began feeding. 

 To one lot he gave hay, grain, and a half bushel of 

 turnips daily; to the other he fed turnips, silage, and 



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