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The cost per acre of producing silage is about as 

 follows : 



Plowing $2.00 



Harrowing 1.50 



Seed corn 25 



Planting (with planter) 50 



Cultivating 3.00 



Harvesting 5.00 



$12.25 



This will average about $1.00 a ton, interest and 

 taxes not included. The foregoing allowances are 

 liberal. The writer has raised silage, keeping strict 

 account, when it cost but eighty-five cents a ton in 

 the silo. One dollar a ton, however, is the safer 

 estimate. 



When properly grown and harvested, silage is 

 one of the most economical feeds grown on the 

 dairy farm. It makes one acre do the work of 

 more than two, and balances the competition between 

 the high-priced lands of the East and the cheap but 

 fertile lands of the West. In its production, land, 

 money, and labor are greatly economized. The 

 most exhaustive work on this topic is "Soiling 

 Crops and the Silo," by Prof. Thomas Shaw r , of 

 University of Minnesota. Another practical treatise 

 is "Silos, Ensilage and Silage/' by Dr. Manly Miles. 



