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be able to utilize the full value of it. Some report that they have 

 had very good success by putting barley, wheat, or rye crops into 

 the silo and cutting them a little green. However, as the stalks 

 contain so much air, they must be carefully tramped and wet 

 down to keep, and do not make first-class silage, although they 

 are good. 



"In sections where sugar beets are grown, the tops are put 

 into the silo with good success, with not only a large saving 

 made on the crop, but they make excellent silage. 



"Cow peas and soy beans are grown in some localities very 

 successfully, and they make first-class silage. Sorghum is an- 

 other crop which makes very good silage, if allowed to mature 

 fairly well. It grows abundantly, both in the irrigated and the 

 dry-farming sections and yields heavily. 



"While there are a few other crops which undoubtedly will 

 prove to be good for silage, they have not yet been tried out. We 

 have a great many grasses which, some of them, may prove valua- 

 ble for silage." 



Arizona, Colorado, etc. A. E. Vinson of the Arizona Station 

 says that: "In certain sections of the semi-arid countries where 

 dry-farming can be practiced or flood-water utilized in growing 

 corn and sorghum, the silo will probably be found to enable the 

 feeder to use more advantageously the natural pastures, which 

 during part of the year produce more than enough forage for the 

 herds and flocks that can be permanently maintained upon them. 



"The advantages to be anticipated from silos in Arizona are 

 several. A supply 'of succulent feed could be kept available for 

 the short winter period of poor pasture and again for the long 

 period of summer drouth. This is especially important where 

 dairying is practiced, and when there is a scant supply of irri- 

 gating water for the pastures in late spring and early summer. 

 In some localities it might be possible to grow fodder corn or 

 sorghum with the summer rains. This forage could be siloed 

 and fed to range stock during the drouth of the next year or used 

 to fatten them for the market. It has been found that as much 

 as three and one-quarter tons per acre of sorghum can be 

 produced by dry-farming methods in some parts of Arizona. This 

 could be preserved as ensilage in succulent condition until 

 needed." 



