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inating of all markets, there it was treated separately to the 

 entire satisfaction of the condensary managers. 



For ten years our ensilage milk has commanded the highest 

 price in St. Louis market for family retail trade. Ensilage can. 

 be made of any green forage lit for feed; the silo adds nothing 

 to the feed put into it, but like canned fruit it preserves it in its 

 succulent state. 



Do not think of raising beets or turnips in the corn belt for 

 feeding cows, sheep, poultry or hogs, for nothing can equal silage 

 in cheapness or convenience; and when our farmers are ready to 

 open their eyes they will find silage to be the sheet anchor for 

 good intense farming; it will one day be as well understood as 

 canning fruit, by the rank and file of farmers; it has been known. 

 lOO years and was then practiced in France. 



According to Hon. J. Periam, the United States in 1893 

 produced 2,200,000,000 bushels of corn, worth thirty cents per 

 bushel would make $660,000,000. 



Now good, well-cured corn fodder is worth one-third as much 

 as the grain if fed to farm animals near where it was grown, then 

 the corn fodder of the United States was worth that year 

 $220,000,000, three fourths of which was wasted, and all of this 

 could have been returned to the fields in the shape of manure.. 

 The bulky nature of corn fodder has been the cause of this waste,, 

 but the corn-binder and the corn-husker and shredder combined 

 have come to our rescue and will eventually help us to "save the 

 $165,000,000 or more, for shredded fodder is worth one-half as 

 much by weight as good timothy hay if run direct to a roomy 

 loft or shed to protect it from rain; we find roomy feed troughs 

 in connection with the shed a convenience. It is as nourishing; 

 and can be fed with as good results as hay, but fodder corni 

 must be dry when shredded or it will mould. It has been find- 

 ing its way to city markets shredded and baled and wherever 

 it has been tried has given good satisfaction. Here is an oppor- 

 tunity for some good shippers to establish a remunerative trade.. 



A farmer who pastures his stalk-lield does not derive one- 

 third the benefit as if cut and shredded, for the dry, weather 

 beaten stalks are indigestible. 



