UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 
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Silage for Beef Cattle 
Time was when one could usually find a dairy farm, by locating a 
silo, but that time has passed. Silage is acknowledged to be the best feed 
for dairy cows. The high cost of feed has necessitated the use of some 
cheaper feed than grain, some better method than pasture on the beef 
feeder's or stock raiser's farm. There is no cheaper feed than silage and 
it can be fed to excellent advantage to beef cattle, as repeated tests at the 
University of Illinois and at Purdue University have shown. The day 
for fat cattle has also passed, if one is to judge from the last Inter- 
national Live Stock Show, and from the recent trend of the market. Baby 
beef seems not only to be most popular but most profitable. It has been 
shown conclusively that baby beef can be brought forward more rapidly 
and cheaply, on silage as a maximum ration, than on any other feed. 
The successful beef feeder to-day, to make the largest profits, must of 
necessity have a silo and feed silage. This is as true of Indiana as Kansas. 
It is as true of Oklahoma as Minnesota. The beef feeder will do well 
to look into this question and get reports from his State Experiment 
Station, and if these do not give fully the information desired, it is sug- 
gested that he write for further information to the State Experiment 
Stations at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Purdue University 
at LaFayette, Indiana, and to the Ohio State University, at Columbus. 
Monolithic Concrete Silo built by S. E. Griffeth Concrete Silo in process of construction on Green 
for S. L. Covey, Belvidere, Illinois; looks and is Brothers' Farm, Morgan. Minnesota. Built with 
substantial farm labor. 
