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CONCRETE SILOS 
That Indiana feeders believe in concrete silos is shown by the follow- 
ing letter : 
"Editor Prairie Farmer: I saw an article in your March 
High Silos -^^^ issue in regard to one of the largest concrete silos in the 
Feeders world, 16x62 feet. We have a farmer in Knox county, Indiana, 
by the name of William H. Brevorte, who has built six concrete 
silos whose dimensions are 22 feet diameter by 60 feet high. He will 
build six more this year, same dimensions. He is feeding 1,000 head of 
cattle." — Prairie Farmer, Chicago. 
A South Dakota correspondent writes to Wallace 's Farmer asking : 
''Cattle can be pastured on prairie grass from May 1st to December 
1st, for $2.50. For the remaining months, corn silage can be fed. How 
much silage would be consumed daily by the average beef cow, 
by the average yearling, by the average two-year-old, and by 
the average three-year-old.'' How much gain could be expected 
each year from young stuff fed silage? How much gain could 
be expected each year from young stuff on pasture? What other feed 
should be fed with silage to make the most economical winter growth? 
"We do not know just how good this prairie grass pasture in South 
Dakota is. Good corn belt blue grass pasture will put an average daily 
gain on yearlings of about one and one-half pounds, and on two-year-olds of 
about one and two-thirds pounds. Such pasture costs $6 or $7 per acre for 
the season. 
" Calves coming into the winter in fairly thin condition and fed all the 
Value of 
Silage and 
Pasture 
A Michigan Concrete Block silo — homemade- 
on farm of W. StoU, Lansing, Michigan. 
F. W. Merrill, contractor, of Kaneville, Illinois, 
owns the block silo illustrated above. 
