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CONCRETE SILOS 
"I have as neighbors a father and son who have been in the dairy 
business for twelve years, using scrub cows and without a pure-bred sire 
and a silo. The father has been opposed to these new-fangled 
SSo ^'^^ things all these years, but this year I induced the son to buy a 
pure-bred sire and to build a silo even though his father objected 
to it. When they commenced to feed the silage the father saw the milk 
flow increase and his creamery check grow larger. I now hear him say : 
'My boy, there is nothing like a silo for the man that milks cows. If I 
had pure-bred cows, too, my creamery check would be larger and the 
farm would be more profitable.' " — Hoard's Dairyman, Ft. Atkinson. 
Silage for Sheep, Horses and Other Live Stock 
Silage is very successfully fed to sheep. A number of large sheep 
feeders around Chicago have been very successful in fattening sheep 
for market by the use of silage. There is no doubt, especially in the 
Corn Belt states, that sheep have come to stay. More will be raised 
every year, not so much for wool as for mutton. This means different 
methods of feeding because it is not economical on land worth over $100 
an acre to pasture them. The use of the silo and silage reduces the cost 
to a tremendous extent, particularly as sheep will rarely, if ever, be fed 
over 3 pounds of silage per day, which is equivalent to several times its 
weight in hay. In feeding sheep silage they should be started with very 
small quantities and no spoiled silage should be fed them or, in fact, any 
other animals. Spoiled silage is no different from any other rotten food 
Cement Stave Silo, Bosworth Brothers' farm. Concrete block silo on Courlund Marshall 's farm 
Built by Cement Stave Silo Co. of Elgin, Illinois. near Rochester, Ohio. Built by V. W. Burge. 
