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Silage Crops 
As alfalfa is king of forage crops, so is corn the best of the silage crops. 
If some one would come from a strange, far off country and tell the farmer 
„ ^ of a new sort of a building which would house 300 to 500 tons 
Principal fodder and keep it all the year around and he had a wonderful 
Crop seed from some foreign country which would produce from 4 to 
10 tons of provender per acre, how quickly all the farmers 
would be greedy and willing to purchase his entire supply. Corn is the 
crop and the silo is the building by which both these seeming miracles 
can be accomplished. 
In addition to corn; alfalfa, clover hay, Kaffir corn, sugar beet tops, 
pea vines and dozens of other crops have been successfully siloed. In 
Numberless ^^^^sas, particularly, alfalfa, otherwise ruined by rain, has been 
Silage Crops taken dripping with moisture, dumped into concrete silos and 
saved. It has been thought best, however, by eminent authori- 
ties, to use corn as the greater part of the silage. If other fodder, par- 
ticularly nitrogenous crops like alfalfa or clover, are siloed, they should 
be in the proportion of about 1 to 2— that is, 2 parts corn to one of 
the other. The fermentation of the corn seems to have a beneficial effect 
upon the other crop, so that in the process of fermentation it does not 
sour or turn black as sometimes when handled alone. Every day new 
