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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 12 
Live StockandDairy 
A SILO MAN TALKS BUSINESS. 
The article on page 92 over the initials 
of 0. R. M., would indicate that we as 
farmers were progressing backward. 
Why is it that the farmers in that local¬ 
ity should discontinue the use of the 
silo, when every speaker at our insti¬ 
tutes is urging the farmer to build them, 
and all experiment stations indorse 
them? I tried every other method of 
wintering stock to determine which 
would give the best results and return 
the most profit, and learned several 
years ago that the farmers of the Bast 
could not carry on dairying and stock 
raising profitably and depend on hay 
alone for roughage. I decided to in¬ 
crease my corn acreage, but the husking 
seemed to be a lingering job, and many 
times I have filled my barn floor and 
other available spaces that I might husk 
in bad weather, also secure the fodder 
in the best possible condition. But to 
solve the problem of feeding the stalks 
was another consideration. To feed them 
whole was a waste, and the refuse was 
a nuisance in the barnyard and manure 
pile, but ere long the shredder was in¬ 
troduced, and we bought one and were 
very much pleased with its work. Then 
we began to grow the large dent varie¬ 
ties of corn (the Learning preferred) so 
as to secure more fodder per acre, but 
to store it away in any large quantity it 
would damage more or less, and when 
shredded would heat and mold even 
when we cut hay or straw and mixed 
with it, thus proving quite unsatisfac¬ 
tory, so we concluded as soon as able to 
build a silo. We have used one two 
years, and like it so well that we intend 
to build another next Fall. Now we 
have no cold fingers husking corn; no 
fodder standing out in the field through 
the Fall rains, and losing from 25 to 40 
per cent of its feeding value; no corn to 
shell and haul from one to five miles to 
the miller, and pay him 10 cents per 100 
pounds to grind, or if he tolls it, leave 
it to his own conscience as to his share 
of the grist Our corn is harvested now 
when possessing its greatest feeding 
value, the silage cutter doing the whole 
of the foregoing work at one operation, 
and at about the same cost as regards 
machinery as it costs to shred the stalks. 
We own one-half interest in a shred¬ 
der, a corn husker and a silage cutter, 
and know something about the cost of 
this kind of work. We get $1 per hour 
for shredding stalks (actual labor), the 
same for filling silos with silage cutter 
(which works up the crop much faster 
than the shredder with same power), 
and five cents per bushel for husking 
corn, which also shreds the stalks, but 
not nearly as well as the shredder. O. 
R. M. says many of the dairymen are 
making more milk without silos than 
those who have them, and I should 
judge more expensive milk, for it cer 
tainly seems to me that it would require 
a large grain ration to get better results 
than from a liberal ration of good silage. 
He also refers to one farmer who cleared 
$G00 from 24 cows, or $25 per head after 
all hired help and feed bills were paid, 
a very good showing I admit. We raise 
all of our calves; they get the skim-milk 
and what pasture they need through the 
Summer, and they average us better 
than half of this when we part with 
them in the Fall. I don’t know why, as 
he says, in growing silage corn the 
farmer should run out his land, or have 
less grain to feed. Our method is to put 
all of the manure on the corn ground, 
which usually has been about 10 acres 
(eight acres filled a 14x30-foot round silo 
this year), and when the corn is removed 
sow to rye in the Fall, or oats and bar¬ 
ley in the Spring and seed down to 
clover and Timothy. The next year we 
pasture it, which returns to the soil 
nearly the full manurial value of the 
season’s crop, except the small portion 
contained in the milk. The fourth year 
it is mown, after which it is again pre¬ 
pared for corn, and I believe that our 
land is increasing in fertility by follow¬ 
ing this course. We also have our po¬ 
tato and buckwheat ground each year 
for other grain, never intending to take 
but two crops without seeding down. We 
had a quantity of silage corn left over 
after filling the silo, which was put in 
the barn in fine condition, that we 
shredded last month, and began feeding 
to our young stock that had been eat¬ 
ing silage. When placed before them 
you never saw a more disappointed lot 
of cattle than they were. They threw 
up their heads and would hardly smell 
of it, and it was a couple of days before 
they made up their mind that it was the 
best and all they would get. You may 
talk of your cornstalks, your hay and 
your grain as being the best ration to 
make a milk gain, but give me the silo 
with plenty of silage well kept, and ]! 
will show you a profit. c. e. a. 
Tioga Co., Pa. 
R. N.-Y.—The writer of the anti-silo 
article lives in a locality where milk is 
bought by a condensery. No silage-fed 
milk will be accepted. 
HOPELESS OASES. 
When the doctor leaves and says the 
case is hopeless, what remains to be 
done ? Nothing, if the doctor’s word is 
final. Much, if you will listen to the 
statements of men and women who were 
once w hopeless 
cases ” given up by 
doctors, and who 
were perfectly and 
permanently cured 
by the use of Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. 
Nothing is more 
sure than that 
thousands of men 
and women with 
diseased lungs, 
obstinate coughs, 
hemorrhage, ema¬ 
ciation and night- 
sweats, have been 
restored to perfect 
health by the use 
of the " Discov¬ 
ery.” Will it cure 
you ? 
It has cured in 
ninety-eight cases 
out of every hun¬ 
dred where it was given a fair and faith¬ 
ful trial. By that record you have only 
two chances in a hundred of failure and 
ninety-eight chances of being restored 
to perfect health. It is worth trying. 
Abram Freer, E»q., of Rockbridge, Greene Co.. 
IH., write* : "My wife had a severe attack of 
pleurisy and hing trouble; the doctors gave her 
Up to die. She commenced taking Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery and she began to 
improve from the kit dose. By the time she 
had taken Mght or tan bottles she vras cured, 
and it was the cause of a large amount being 
cold here. I think the * Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery ’ is the beat medicine in the world for 
lung trouble.” 
Fr.HK. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense 
Medical Adviser containing over a thou¬ 
sand large pages is sent free on receipt 
of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. 
Send ai one-cent stamps for the book in 
paper covers, or 31 stamps for the cloth- 
bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Encovrlio kll,s roaches, ants, moths, bed- 
IIIOwAlllC bugs, fleas,and all Insect life- 
insects breathe through their bodies, having 
no lungs, and for this reason it does not require 
a POISON to kill them. It also kills the egg. 
Ineovrlia als0 kills Insects on animals, 
inSvAlilv birds, chickens, etc., and 
should be sprinkled on carpets and curtains. 
A sample sent for 25cents postpaid. Put up in 
large packages at $1, *2. $3 and $5. 
Ginseng Distilling and Chemical Co., 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 
UPQIlIRrQ'-^August gilts bred; March pigs 
neomneo s. A. LITTLE, Malcolm, N. Y 
Belgian Hakes.—P ure-bred, pedi¬ 
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I FIDELITY FOOD f6r FOWLS 
forgetting birds Into highest show condition; for 
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My Name is 
EMPIRE 
No. 2. 
I am a twin brother of the 
Cream Separator 
Queen Empire No. 1 A, hut 
being a boy I can do more 
work. I am light. Only have 
a very few parts in my makeup 
and when it comes to turning 
and caring for me I am a “dead 
easy” proposition. 
All Cream Separator users 
who have tried me are my 
friends, hut still I am not with¬ 
out enemies. Some big, heavy, 
complicated cream separators 
are so jealous of my appear¬ 
ance and of the fact that I 
am built so simple and have 
so few parts they can’t keep 
from talking unkindly of me. 
But then I don’t feel badly 
about it. I pity them. Just 
suppose you weighed two hun¬ 
dred pounds; had been taking 
anti-fat all your life with- 
out getting any light- 
er; couldn t dress 
neat on account 
of 
be 
so big 
and clumsy 
and couldn’t walk 
^ " half a block with- 
out getting out of breath; 
wouldn’t it make you green 
with envy to have some neat, 
well dressed, sprightly, nicely 
proportioned person walk right 
by you. I guess you would be 
too provoked to say “Good 
morning!” too, and would talk 
to your next door neighbor 
about “How awfully slim Mrs. 
So and So is.” 
Well, I’m the Slim One. 
I’m not loaded down with a 
ton of useless cast-iron, cog¬ 
wheels, bushings, bearings, tin¬ 
plates, corrugated tin pipes 
and complicated tubes. If I was I’d take 
a physic and if it didn’tdo anything else 
it might better my disposition anyway. 
I’m only one of a large family. I have 
brothers and sister smaller and larger. 
Our book gives history of the whole 
“Empire” family. Send for it. 
V.S. Butter Extractor Co. 
Bloomfield, N. J. 
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