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be provided. When, as is often the case, the pasture is some 

 distance from the barn, and there is no shelter, cows are com- 

 pelled to be in the cold rain from morning till night. All this 

 means not only discomfort to the cows, but a loss to the 

 owner, for food that should go to make milk goes to keeping 

 the cows warm. This has often been noticed during cold, 

 rainy spells when it shows in the milk pail. It is not neces- 

 sary to go to great expense ; a pole shed with a cover of straw 

 will answer every purpose, A shed of this kind answers an- 

 other purpose. Cows fall off in their milk yield jnst as much 

 in hot weather as in cold, and one way of checking this is to 

 provide a comfortable place for the cow to escape the heat of 

 the day. I have said but little about the importance and 

 value of the silo. From eight years' experience I am convinced 

 that more feed and better feed for the dairy can be taken 

 from an acre in corn silage than from any other crop, and for 

 confirmation of this I will read a few extracts from lute 

 writers on the silo of well known authority : — 



W. D. Hoard, Ex-Gover nor of Wisconsin and editor of Hoard's 

 Dairyman, writing on ensilage, says : — " Let me say at 

 the outset, that the question is hardly one of latitude or 

 climate. It is a question of storing and feeding. Here in 

 Wisconsin, we are fast coming to the conclusion that the most 

 costly of our feeds is pasturage. The economy of practice 

 must be measured by results obtained, and wisdom of expen- 

 diture. Measured by these considerations, pasturage milk costs 

 us more than any other, taking into consideration the fact that 

 the average acre of the best pasture will not produce more than 

 1,800 to 2,000 pounds of milk, while an acre of corn fodder put 

 in a silo will easily produce 8,000 to 10,000 pounds. We find 

 that corn fodder is the most easily, cheaply and safely handled 

 in the silo. The damage from the elements in dry curing is 

 very great, and there is added the loss or waste in feeding. 



