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CONCRETE SILOS 
"The lambs ate about 3 pounds per head a day to start with, but as 
soon as we got them onto full feed of grain they came down to about 2 
pounds per head a day. It takes us about thirty days to get them on 
full feed. 
"We fed these lambs this winter, that is when they were on full feed, 
for about ninety days, allowing each 1^ pounds of shell corn; % pound 
of oil meal; 1% pounds of silage and ji pound of clover hay a day, with 
all the salt and water they wanted all the time." — The Farmer's Review, 
Chicago. 
According to extracts from "Farmer's Bulletin No. 556," U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, silage is an excellent feed for horses if used with 
care. It is not safe to feed horses moldy silage, frozen silage or 
Silage for ^ large quantity of silage. Carelessness in feeding horses silage, 
Horses moldy, or feeding moldy hay or corn will result fatally. 
That silage for horses has a distinct and definite value for the careful and 
practical farmer is shown by the following quotations : 
"The value of silage for horses is greatest as a means to carry them 
through the winter season cheaply or to supplement pasture during 
drought. To cheapen the ration of brood mares, in winter, no feed has more 
value than good corn silage. If grain goes into the silo with the stover 
no additional grain is needed for brood mares, hay being the only sup- 
plemental feed necessary. If there is little grain on the corn the silage 
Four in a Row^ — all reinforced concrete silos, near Manhattan, Kansas {16 feet by 60 feet inside di- 
mensions), built for H. G. Adams, Maple Hill. Probably the largest silos west of the Mississippi River. 
