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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 9. 
FILLING SILO WITH SWEEP POWER 
R, F. D., Camden, N. Y. — Do you think 
a two-horse sweep power (medium size 
horses) and 11%-inch cutter would be a 
satisfactory outfit for filling a silo holding 
about CO tons? My idea is to fill with small 
amount of help, using one team; draw a 
load and cut it and continue in this way 
until done. This would require but two men, 
as I have a low wagon that can be loaded 
from the groun^. I have put stalks in whole 
for five years, but am not very well satisfied 
with this way. It does very well with stalks 
not more than six feet high, but with large 
corn there is some waste. 
I believe it could be done and well done 
too. After cutting say, two loads, let the 
men go in the silo and level off and 
tramp down. Use an elevator and not 
a blower. The blowers run too hard and 
do no better work than a good elevator 
or carrier. It will be slow, but the re¬ 
sults will be better than the rush of steam 
engine and an army of men. I have no¬ 
ticed where a silo is filled slowly and set¬ 
tles it keeps better. M. A. c. 
Savannah, N. Y. 
I would not advise using a two-horse 
sweep power for filling a 60-ton silo, for 
the simple reason that the corn would be¬ 
come too ripe before the job was done. 
My experience has been that the best sil¬ 
age is produced from corn that has just 
begun to glaze or dent; if cut later con¬ 
siderable of the corn comes through the 
cows indigested. The plan would work 
all right if the corn could be planted to 
ripen as they cut it. H. p. b. 
tj Connecticut 
I have not had any experience in that, 
as I have not got a silo. I have a tread 
power that I do my thrashing with; with 
two men to help I can thrash 125 bushels 
of wheat in a day, and have thrashed 
275 bushels oats in a day. But if I were 
to undertake to fill a 60-ton silo I would 
get a six-horse power gasoline engine, 
then I think two men could do the 
work all right. One of my neighbors has 
filled bis silo with a tread power, but has 
been using steam power the last few 
years; he has a gasoline engine now. 
Pennsylvania. e. w. kune. 
I see no reason why the questioner 
should not succeed with this outfit. For¬ 
merly I filled my silos with a two-horse 
tread power, one year filling two silos 
holding 200 tons. I have a 12-inch cut¬ 
ter and 24 feet to elevate. The elevator 
will take nearly as much power as the 
cutter. It is a practical thing to fill 
slowly as suggested. If it were conve¬ 
nient I would prefer to fill my silo in two 
weeks rather than two days; but it 
should be trodden firmly in the silo. 
With the rig I speak of I have cut 25 to 
30 tons a day, when I have a team con¬ 
tinually loading in the field. 
E, VAN ALSTYNE. 
I have never had any personal experience 
with silos so cannot give a good answer 
of my own, but I saw one of our best 
farmers to-day and showed him the 
printed slip. The following is what he 
said about it. He thought you could fill 
it with a two-horse sweep power to a 
height of 20 feet, but if higher than 20 
feet he thought more power would be 
required, also that it would take two 
men quite a length of time to cut the 
corn, draw it and fill a silo of 60 tons, 
hence necessary to begin early so the corn 
would not be over-ripe before the last 
was put in. Following the above condi¬ 
tions he thought it an economical way 
to do the job. henry e. brown. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
I have never used a sweep power for 
any purpose. Most farmers in this sec¬ 
tion use a one or two-horse tread power, 
or gasoline engines. I know of several 
silos near here that are filled with a one- 
horse tread power and suitable sized cut¬ 
ter and they do very good work. I have 
a friend in an adjoining town who fills 
a 60-ton silo in this way; his method is 
to plant his corn in the Spring at three 
or four different times, covering about 
two weeks, and in the Fall it is cut in 
the same order as planted, thus giving 
him plenty of time to harvest the crop 
without the last cuttings being too ripe. 
He does the harvesting at “odd jobs,” 
when a team and man are at liberty, if 
only for an hour or two; they cut and 
draw in two or three loads of corn, put a 
horse into the power, and run the corn 
through into the silo. Two men and a 
team will store away quite a quantity of 
corn in a day in this way. This man 
tells me that his silo will hold from six 
to eight tons more cut in this way over 
putting it all in in two or three days ow¬ 
ing to the settling of the first cuttings. I 
see no reason why a sweep power would 
not work equally as well, provided it 
would furnish the necessary speed and 
power. w. E. ROBINSON. 
Vermont. 
Yes, one can do some business with a 
two-horse sweep if the cutter has the 
chain elevator attachment. I would not 
think of attaching a blower to this power. 
There is a tendency to equip farms with 
complete power of greater or less capac¬ 
ity, and so become independent of the 
traveling engine. If one has power of his 
own he can prolong the filling and do the 
work perhaps cheaper; at least more or 
perhaps all of it can be done with the 
regular farm force. The silage will be 
equally as good, and many times better 
than the whole corn. Our own practice 
has been to crowd the work as rapidly 
as possible, because the power cost the 
same per hour whether running full head 
or otherwise. I was on the farm, one 
year ago, of Floyd Overton, near Belle¬ 
ville, N. Y., one of the largest and best 
dairymen of northern New York. I 
found him hauling with two teams, two 
men in the field and one to run the en¬ 
gine, five in all. They drove beside the 
cutter, which was set in a wagon, threw 
the bundles into a traveling table and the 
corn took care of itself. The silo was 
leveled at convenient times. This short¬ 
age of farm help is forcing these econo¬ 
mies. I saw this same day seven cut¬ 
ters running within a distance of two 
miles near Mr. Overton’s farm. 
_ H. E. COOK. 
The Marshall Strawberry.— I have 
tried two different lots of the Marshall straw¬ 
berry, and while they have kept up In size 
and about the same bearing quality, they did 
not keep the rich dark color that makes this 
variety so desirable. Does the fertilizer used 
have anything to do with the color of straw¬ 
berries? r. l. p. 
Florence, Mass. 
Raising Boys. —Here most farmers only 
hire for nine months, and, of course, the 
men and family have to live the other three 
months, so, of course, they go where they 
can get steady work; we would any of us 
do the same. It seems to me that anyone 
who has to have help the year around should 
take boys; there are plenty who have no 
home, and would be better off to be brought 
up in the country. Of course, it would be 
some trouble, but I believe it would be a 
blessing to both boys and farmer. The same 
with help in the house; you can bring them 
up to do your work as you would like it 
done, and that is something worth while, as 
help that works everywhere get all kinds of 
ideas and soon learn to do their wnrk in 
slipshod way, just working for the money, 
and they have no interest in your work or 
pocketbook. Tf you bring the children up 
they will take interest in their work. 
Washtenaw Co., Mich. j. l. e. 
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