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the mass below, and secure a more thorough 

 packing, and thereby also a better quality of 

 silage. 



Professor Cottrell, writing for Kansas 

 farmers, says: " Silage will keep as long as 

 the silo is not opened and has been kept in 

 good condition for seven years. This is a 

 special advantage to Kansas dairymen, as in 

 years of heavy crops the surplus can be stored 

 in silos for years of drought, making all years 

 good crop years for silo dairymen." 



Many people use corn exclusively for the 

 silo; others, what is called the Robertson Mix- 

 ture named after Professor Robertson of 

 Canada which is corn, horse beans, and sun- 

 flower heads, or the Getty Mixture, which 

 necessitates growing corn and cowpeas in al- 

 ternate rows and harvesting together. Neither 

 of the latter methods seems practicable in the 

 vicinity of New York, as horse beans are dif- 

 ficult to establish, and the cowpeas only suit- 

 able for a catch crop, to be used as cut from 

 the field. Again, for the last mixture, the corn 



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