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THE SUMMER SILO 45 
The use of a summer silo does not prevent the 
profitable production of other crops than corn. 
Frequently such crops as rye and crimson clover, 
when they are grown as catch-crops, have been 
successfully ensilaged in the spring for summer 
use. 
With the use of the summer silo it would be 
quite possible to carry as many animals as by the 
soiling system, providing the rotations were so 
arranged as to permit of more than one crop per 
year on the same area (as, for example, rye, wheat 
and crimson clover), and if a large area of alfalfa 
were grown for hay to furnish protein for both 
winter and summer rations. The economics of the 
summer silo have not yet been fully worked out, 
but the question is one that has much promise as 
a means of reducing the cost of food, and of 
increasing the number of animals that may be 
kept on a given area. 
