GATES 
Building an Underground Silo 
Would you tell how to build a silo in 
the ground? f. w. g. 
Chautauqua, N. Y. 
Building a silo underground is a simple 
operation. A dry, well-drained spot is 
selected, where tin* water level i« at some 
distance below the surface. A hole is 
dug out very much like a well, only, of 
course, much larger. Usually a round 
form to fit the well is made, and as dig¬ 
ging goes down a layer of concre e is put 
between the form and the side of the well. 
This is carried down to the bottom, so 
that the silo, when completed, is very 
much like a deep concrete cistern. It is 
not likely that such a silo will prove very 
satisfactory in New York State. There 
is too much moisture in our soil, and the 
silage would not he likely to keep well. 
In Western Nebraska. Arizona, aud New 
Mexico, where the ground is very dry and 
the water level deep, these silos have 
proved quite useful, and many of them 
are built. A bulletin issued by the Ne¬ 
braska Experiment Station at Lincoln 
gives a good statement about such a silo. 
If you could get a copy, you would have 
complete information. 
Silage for Horses 
I have noticed a letter in TrtE R. N.-Y. 
about feeding silage to horses. The 
writer says the wise man never feeds 
silage t<> idle or work horses. I must 
tell you my experience. I have fed silage 
to my horses aud colts for the past 10 
Winters, and never keep mj horses in 
better condition than when l‘ feed silage. 
Everybody asks me what I feed my horses, 
they look so slick. I tell rhem silage; I 
do not think there is any better feed for 
horses than good silage. I wish I had it 
to feed ail the year. I cannot sav too 
much about silage for horses. I have fed 
one bushel basketful to three horses twice 
a day with the best of results. Anyone 
who has silage should feed it to their 
horses; nothing hotter. I have been 
careful not to feed them any that was 
moldy. \v. l. h. zintz. 
Maryland. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not doubt these state¬ 
ments. but we have had many reports of 
trouble or danger from feeding horses on 
silage. Therefore we urge caution. There 
are different qualities of milage, ami some 
horses, like some humans, me affected 
in a peculiar way by food. 
Feeding Guernsey Cows 
I have a feed grinder, and wish'to use 
my own grain as far as possible to feed 
my Guernsey cows. What would you 
suggest to go with oats, corn aud buck¬ 
wheat to make a balanced ration? I 
have good silage, but would like to use 
oat and buckwheat straw for roughage. 
\\ ould it pay to buy molasses to make it ■ 
more palatable? C. c. w. 
You could not afford to buy molasses 
to supplement tin carbohydrate feeds you 
have on hand. What you should obtain 
would be some protein carrier, such as 
cottonseed meal, gluten feed nr oilmcnl. 
A combination consisting of 200 lbs. each 
cats, corn and buckwheat, combined with 
200 lbs. 43 per cent cottonseed meal. 100 
lbs. gluten meal and 100 lbs. wheat bran 
will serve your purpose. Neither oat 
nor buckwheat straw would provide a 
satisfactory roughage, and in case you 
use either of these materials 1 should add 
100 lbs. of oilmeal to the grain ra'‘on. 
F. C. il. 
More FVofit in the MilKCan 
C OM S must be kept healthy if they are to show a profit. Most of 
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treated at home by using Kow-Kare according to directions. 
Barrenness, Abortion, Retained Afterbirth, Scouring, Bunches, Milk 
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The use of Kow-Kare for two weeks before and after calving works 
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A package of ‘Kow-Kare, pins onr valuable _ ' 
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One Idea of Pasteurized Milk 
Our farmers Lave recently bought a 
milk plant, and are selling their own milk. 
They sent out a solicitor to drum up 
trade, and after telling one woman that 
our milk was all pasteurized, be said; 
“I suppose you know what pasteurized 
milk is. don’t you?” “Oh. yes,” sin* said. 
“I used to live in the country once, and 
I know that when Covs are fed iu the 
barn the milk isn’t as good as when they 
are pasteurized 1” I wonder if that 
woman calls farmers “ignorant bay- 
seeds !” B. B. A. 
Connecticut. 
She probably does, yet she is far more 
ignorant than they are regarding some of 
the most essential things of life. The 
lordly superiority with which some, of 
these town people assume that all country 
folks must bo stupid would be amusing 
if it did not lead to tragedy. There are 
millions of people who live within a short 
walk of great libraries, yet content Them¬ 
selves with reading a prejudiced, yellow 
newspaper as their only essay into “liter¬ 
ature.” It is chiefly in country homes 
that the great books are read and pon¬ 
dered. The germs of coneeit in some of 
these city folks are so strong that even j 
pasteurizing would not destroy them. 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
At MiDungTune 
cfliats when it Proves its Worth 
) OESN’T it stand to reason that if a cow’s 
milk-producing organs are out of order 
there is certain to be a reduced milk 
Dow? Stands to reason, too, that there will 
be enough loss in just a few milkings to 
more than offset the time and slight expense 
©f giving prompt medicinal assistance to a 
cow that is in any way “off-color.” 
This is where Kow-Kare comes in. In a 
great majority of the best dairies this cow 
medicine is used regularly, at intervals during 
the housed-in winter season. When the cow’s 
Producing organs are put to severe strain by 
the loss of pasturage and the use of heavy 
concentrated foods and roughage, Kow-Kare 
will avoid a break-down by keeping the diges¬ 
tive and genital organs in a healthy, 
normal condition. Regularly at 
milking time you get big premiums 
on every penny invested in Kow- 
Kare. 
