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animals and especially adapted for feeding dairy cows and beef 

 cattle. 



3. The silo will preserve feeds like corn, sorghum, clover, alfalfa, 

 pea vines, etc., in a succulent condition for feeding any time during 

 the year, and thus furnishes valuable supplementary feeds for late 

 summer and early fall feeding when pastures are likely to be short, 

 as well as for winter feeding when other succulent feed is either 

 scarce or lacking. 



4. The silo makes the farmer less dependent on weather condi- 

 tions than when hay is made, and enables him to get along with 

 smaller barns than otherwise, since less room is required for storing 

 feed in a silo than in the form of hay in a barn. 2 



FIG. 30. A "re-saw" silo being filled with alfalfa. These silos are well adapted to mild 

 climates, as that of California and the southern States. (Pacific Rural Press.) 



The value of the silo on American stock farms, and especially 

 to dairy farmers and cattle men, has been fully established during 

 the past few decades by numerous carefully-conducted feeding 

 experiments with different classes of farm animals, as well as by 

 practical feeding experience. The present general distribution of 

 the silo in this country has been the most important factor in the 



2 The advantages of silos are discussed more fully in the author's " Book 

 on Silage" (Chicago, 1900; now out of print) and in "Modern Silage 

 Methods," published by Silver Manufacturing Company, Salem, Ohio, both 

 of which books have been freely used in the preparation of this chapter. 



