1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
871 
ADVANTAGES OF A SILO. 
To those who have adopted the use of 
the silo its advantages are ever appar¬ 
ent. My thought is so to present the 
facts that every man who owns a dairy, 
but not a silo, may resolve before the 
Winter of 1908 that he will have one, 
and thus be able to supply his cows, 
throughout the stable season, with a 
ration which as a milk producer closely 
resembles June pasture. With the silo 
a vast amount of food can be stored in 
a small space. If the silo is just in 
touch with the barn so that its doors 
open inside the barn, it is an easy mat¬ 
ter to take out the silage at any time 
during the Winter. Where hay alone is 
depended on for Winter feed, it takes a 
good-sized barn to hold hay for a large 
herd of cows, and often the farmer is 
deterred from getting more cows be¬ 
cause he knows that his barn will hold 
no more hay than is necessary to feed 
the cows he has. The cost of building 
the silo is more than offset by the saved 
expense of enlarging the old barn or 
building a new one. A chief economy 
in feeding silage is that the cellular 
structure of the corn plant has been 
preserved with all its juices, and this is 
easily digestible by the cows and helps 
keep their digestive organs in a good 
condition. Silage is not dusty, as hay 
often is, and therefore there is no dan¬ 
ger of filling the barn with millions pf 
bacteria-laden particles when some of it 
is thrown down for feed. To cheapen 
the cost of production is the effort being 
put forth by those engaged in every 
channel of industry. New machinery 
supplants that which has been in use but 
a comparatively short time, because the 
manufacturer sees a lessened cost of 
production of the finished article. The 
silo will, without doubt, cheapen the 
cost of dairy production more than any 
other one factor of which the dairyman 
can avail himself, and it is good business 
judgment on his part to look at the 
facts as they are, and determine if it 
would not be wise to adopt this ap¬ 
proved method. 
A well-built permanent silo can be 
put up for about $1.50 per ton of ca¬ 
pacity. That is a cost of $300 for a silo 
that will hold 200 tons of feed. This 
amount of feed will supply 20 cows with 
all the silage they should have, even if 
they are big cows and are fed the year 
around. If the farmer were to build a 
barn that will hold hay for 20 cows, 
even for a Winter, can he build it for 
$300? Not at all; he would have to in¬ 
vest very much more than that sum in 
a barn to hold the hay for that number 
of cows, so we see that silage is the 
cheapest thing possible to feed if we 
are to consider the cost of the structure 
that contains it. The farmer who in¬ 
tends largely to increase the number of 
his cows will have to put hundreds of 
dollars into a barn structure if he in¬ 
tends to confine himself to the feeding 
of hay for roughage. It will be far 
easier for him to extend his stables and 
build a silo than to construct a stable 
sufficiently high to hold the hay. When 
a man is freed from the necessity of 
providing for bulky feed he can then 
construct his dairy stable with the object 
of getting cleanliness and light. He 
can build his stable long and low, and 
secure a flood of light from three sides. 
His foundation does not have to be as 
heavy as it must be if it is to sustain a 
heavy superstructure. A silo is thus not 
expensive, and moreover it is a great 
factor in the development of dairying. 
It solves the problem as to how a dairy¬ 
man can make a living from 50 to 100 
acres of land. That is going to be the 
great question in the not distant future, 
for the farms are already being cut up 
into smaller ones. If any man doubts 
whether or not it will pay him to build 
a silo let him look into the cost and 
benefits by actually getting estimates 
on the cost of construction. I make 
silage my main cow food. I feed from 
35 to 40 pounds of silage per day, in 
proportion to the cow. It is my inten¬ 
tion for the cows to have all they want, 
and in the best condition. The silage 
ration is balanced with bran, clover and 
Alfalfa* hay. The bran is fed in pro¬ 
portion to the period of lactation of the 
cow, and as much as 'she will consume 
at a profit. I feed silage and bran the 
first thing in the morning, then do the 
milking and separating, then feed as 
much clover and Alfalfa hay as the 
cows will clean up before noon. The 
same method is followed in the even¬ 
ing, feeding hay the last thing at night. 
I do not depend on grass alone more 
than 90 days in the year. Then if I 
have any silage left over from Winter 
I feed about 25 pounds per day. If I 
have no silage I plant a small plot of 
early corn in the Spring, and sow oats 
and peas, begin feeding as soon as it 
will do, cutting from the field and haul¬ 
ing to the pasture each day. This is a 
more expensive way of feeding than 
the silage, but is far better than to let 
the cows go hungry, for a hungry cow 
won’t give milk. j. p. fletcher. 
New York._ 
THE TROTTING HORSE. 
After reading the Hope Farm man’s let¬ 
ter on page 2(57 I cannot resist the tempta¬ 
tion to make a plea for the driving horse. 
I have raised quite a number of drivers, 
and have always found them good property. 
I will agree that the small 800 or 900 
pound trotter is a drug on the market, but 
if you can get one that will weigh 1,000 
or 1,100 that is up-headed and of good 
life, any amount of speed does not hurt 
him, and I don’t care how fast he can trot. 
I will own to some of that sporting spirt 
that the Hope Farm man has, and enjoy go¬ 
ing at a good clip. I have in mind a certain 
five-year-old horse that will weigh 1,050, 
stands 15.3, a colt that can road 10 miles 
an hour without any injury, and entirely 
fearless of autos and steam cars, that I 
think would change this opinion if he could 
only ride behind him, or see him pull a 
plow or a manure spreader. I have al¬ 
ways found that class of horses good sell¬ 
ers, and if one gets a little blemish on 
him he is big enough to do a good deal of 
work or sell at a price that will a good 
deal more than cover the cost of raising 
to some one who wants a good driver, and 
does not feel able to own a sound one. 
Aside from the pleasure of driving and 
owning a good one I believe there is as 
much profit in that class as any. Of 
course if a man is breeding for his own 
use he wants to breed for the class of 
horses he needs, but if raising for the mar¬ 
ket he will, I think, always find a ready 
sale for a good driver of good size. 
Vermont. c. L. s. 
It. N.-Y.—But taking the average farm 
mares as they come, bow many of that class 
will you average? The great majority seem 
to be small misfits. 
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