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ered, however, plowing up an alfalfa patch, putting in 

 some corn, and not feeding any new alfalfa that season. 

 This resulted in an investigation, which seemed to show 

 that the man's statements were prompted by selfish 

 motives, rather than by his real feeling in the oase. It 

 was found that he had bought up during the winter, 

 from his neighbors who did not have silos, and were 

 thus compelled to sell, a lot of calves and young cattle, 

 feeding them on the silage he had stored in his silos 

 and making a very nice profit on the deal. If his neigh- 

 bors were encouraged to build silos the possibility of 

 his agiain taking advantage of their unfortunate cir- 

 cumstance would be very slight indeed. 



One line of investigation followed by The Twentieth 

 Century Farmer was to find out whether or not a much 

 larger percentage of cattle could be maintained on the 

 farms of the country by the more extended use of the 

 silo and the feeding of silage year after year. This 

 question was therefore asked of numerous farmers of 

 from one to seven or eight years' experience in feeding 

 silage, what percentage more of cattle could be kept 

 profitably on their farms if they had sufficient silo room 

 in which they could be sure to have silage to supple- 

 ment the pastures in dry periods, and also to have 

 plenty of this feed for winter time. While none of 

 them had definite figures they could give, they all had 

 some ideas based on their feeding experience. The 

 answers to these questions from probably 50 different 

 silo users have been that they could keep from 50 to 

 100 per cent more cattle by the use of the silo than 

 they could without. 



Silage stands first in rank of all the roughages for 

 finishing cattle, says T. E. Woodward, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Formerly, during the era 



