BUILDING SILOS, GROWING THE CORN, AND MAKING 



SILAGE. 



BY A. W. TROW, DAIRYMAN. 



Glenville, Minn. 



SILO AND SILAGE. 



To attain the best results the dairyman should have a silo, as by it the 

 cows can be furnished with a palatable and succulent food the year round . 

 All kinds of stock thrive on green grass and as silage has the same laxative 

 and corrective qualities, it is equivalent to grass. By the use of silage stock 

 may be kept in that healthy, sleek condition that cannot be otherwise 

 obtained except when running on good summer pasture. In short, silage 

 is grass in winter. 



The silo solves the problem of storing corn fodder. 



As corn fodder has come to be one of the surest and most productive 

 of the forage crops that grow in the dairy belt, it has become necessary for 

 us to seek the best and most convenient means of handling it. Its relia- 

 bility and enormous yield renders it almost indispensible to those who would 

 make a profitable production of milk on high priced lands. 



The advent of the corn binder, which has taken the place of the old 

 hand corn knife, has solved the question of harvesting corn fodder. How- 

 ever, there is yet an absence of any economical system of handling dry corn 

 fodder in the barn in any form that brings it to the manger in a condition 

 that is relished by the cow and consumed without waste. It is beyond the 

 question of a doubt that for the feeding that must be done inside the barn 

 the adoption of the silo is the only alternative. 



While young stock, sheep and horses, may be fed corn fodder in sheltered 

 yards and on well sodded pastures where the refuse will be away from the 

 buildings, the dairy cow must receive her feed in a comfortable barn. 



SILAGE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SOILING. 



Many of our farmers who farm on high priced lands have practiced 

 a system of soiling by planting corn of different periods of maturing, sorghum, 

 peas, oats, rye and other forage plants, to furnish a green feed to partially 

 or entirely supplement pasture. These farmers are beginning to realize 



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