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PLANNING FOR SILO. 
I have a 90-ton silo and I find it very 
difficult to raise enough corn to fill it un¬ 
less I take from 12 to 15 acres. • I am 
just a beginner and find it difficult to make 
my land produce more than from eight to 
10 tons of green fodder per acre, which is 
not enough, I would like to plant some 
peas with the silage corn this year. What 
variety would you suggest? How plant, in 
rows or broadcast? I use a corn harvester. 
What would you plant them wllh? Do 
you know of any other plant that I could 
sow with the corn that would give me 
the results? I am putting out a meadow 
which has about eight acres in it this 
year in silage corn; it is a last year Ited- 
.top and clover sod. I have put barnyard ma¬ 
nure on most of it. What kind of fertilizer 
would you suggest to use, and how much? 
Martinsburg, W. Va. A. R. T. 
I think I should make the eight-acre 
field fill the 90-ton silo. I should plow 
as early as the soil will permit and just 
a little deeper than it has ever been 
plowed before. Cut a narrow furrow 
and set it up pretty well on edge. If 
you use a jointer at all, set it to run 
very shallow, so as not to throw the 
organic matter from the surface into the 
bottom of the furrow where it will de¬ 
cay slowly and shut off the moisture 
from below. In the hill districts I have 
many times met this testimony, that the 
furrows they turned up the hill and 
necessarily stood on edge produced a 
half more corn than the furrows they 
turned down the hill, and necessarily 
turned over flat. A little thought will 
show you the reason. Work the soil 
thoroughly and deeply and as often as 
practicable before time to plant. I can¬ 
not tell from the information given what 
the limiting factor in this soil may be. 
So, notwithstanding the fact that ma¬ 
nure has been used on a part of the 
field, I-suggest a complete fertilizer. I 
think I should buy 300 pounds of nitrate 
of soda, 400 pounds dried blood, 1,200 
pounds 16 per cent, acid phosphate, 160 
pounds muriate of potash. This will give 
give a little more than a ton of high- 
grade fertilizer, analyzing 4-10-4, and 
ought to cost you delivered a little less 
than $32. I would drill this broadcast 
into the ground just before planting. 
Choose good seed of as large a variety 
of corn as will mature in your section, 
and plant thick enough so that there 
will be about one stalk in every 10 or 
12 inches. If the crop is well cared for 
and the season is normal you ought to 
have enough to fill the silo and enough 
left over to pay for the fertilizer. 
It has not generally been satisfactory 
to grow anything with the corn to sup¬ 
plement it in the silo. It is a good plan 
sometimes to grow peas or beans to 
mix with the corn, but these are usually 
better grown in separate fields, and in 
this case it is hard in the hurry of silo 
filling to get them properly mixed. If 
you wished to try something of the kind 
I would suggest Soy beans instead of 
cow peas, and that the corn and beans 
be planted in alternate rows. It is diffi¬ 
cult to plant corn and beans together 
in the same row, because the planter 
will not plant them evenly. You could, 
of course, go over the ground twice— 
once with corn and again with beans. 
But I think it would be more satisfac¬ 
tory to plant in alternate rows. Grow¬ 
ing beans with the corn will likely de¬ 
crease the tonnage per acre, but will 
improve the quality of the silage. You 
would better consult your experiment 
station as to the variety of beans to 
grow to have them mature with the corn 
for silage in your latitude. If you de¬ 
cide to plant corn and beans on the 
same ground they can be planted at the 
same date, and probably the planter can 
be adjusted to do the work all right. 
If beans are put in a separate plot, the 
best way to plant them is with a grain 
drill, stopping up the hoes so as to 
make rows 28 to 35 inches apart, and 
cultivate. f. l. allen. 
gave birth to a calf. Wiegand immediately 
appeared and demanded that the cow with 
her calf be returned to him. 
“I sold you only her hide,” he said to 
his neighbor. “All the rest belong to me.” 
“I bought the skin, and all that’s inside 
it goes to me,” retorted Hawkins. 
Hawkins refused to surrender the cow 
and calf, which, he says, he is holding as 
security for his investment in the cow’s 
skin. Each has threatened to sue the other 
In the courts. 
We hear that many of these news¬ 
paper stories simmer down, under in¬ 
vestigation, to a very small point, but 
supposing the story to be true, what po¬ 
sition would you take regarding the 
ownership of this cow? 
April 5, 
Who Owns the Cow? 
The newspapers report the following 
“cow case”: 
Dow, Ill., March 9.—A countryside ver¬ 
sion here of the “Merchant of Venice,” with 
B cow in the role of Antonio, still lacks 
a Portia to settle the controversy. Philip 
Wiegand, a farmer, found his cow was ill 
and was afraid she would die. Hoping to 
avoid a total loss, he sold the animal’s 
hide to James Hawkins, a neighbor and 
friend, for $7.50. Hawkins was to take 
the animal to his farm and kill it, and 
Wiegand was to have the carcass to feed 
to his hogs. But the cow began to get 
better In her new home, so that Hawkins 
was convinced she would not die after all. 
He doctored the animal, with the result 
that she recovered, and a few days ago she 
A Cheap Wooden Silo. 
The article “Experience With Wooden 
Silo,” on page 233 of The R. N.-Y., 
prompts me to note a little of my own 
experience and observations. The silo with 
which I had to do was made in one of the 
bays of a remodeled barn and took a 
part of the space originally occupied by the 
barn floor. The “great beams” were at 
the top and heavy girths at the sides. 
There was no floor, but the ground, which 
was dry, was covered with coarse hay. 
The boards were of %-inch pine, of good 
quality, and were planed and matched. At 
the end which came even with the barn 
floor four openings were left through which 
to throw out the silage when it was to be 
fed. These places were closed by gates which 
were held in place by the contents of the 
silo, but which were easily raised when It 
became necessary to open them. 
The silo was about 18 feet deep, 12 feet 
wide, and as it went two feet lower than 
the barn floor, 14 feet high. When I sold 
the farm it had been in use about eight 
years and was in fair condition. Several 
other silos in the neighborhood which were 
made in much the same manner gave good 
service for quite a number of years. They 
were not ideal silos but they had the 
merits of low cost and real usefulness. 
When the money for construction is wisely 
used a more expensive silo will give better 
satisfaction, and will last much longer, 
than a cheap one, but it is not at all difli- 
cult to make a pretty good and fairly dura¬ 
ble one at a very moderate cost. The indis¬ 
pensable items are a strong frame, a smooth 
surface for the inside, and absolutely tight 
boarding. The cheap silo may seem to be 
in the nature of a makeshift, but under 
some conditions it has great possibilities 
for usefulness. This is true where a farm¬ 
er who has four or more cows cannot now 
have the best kind of silo. He need have 
no hesitation about putting up a cheap 
one to be used while it lasts. For, if it 
is properly made, such a silo will be 
profitable from the first and it is practi¬ 
cally certain that the results of its use 
will be so satisfactory that by the time 
it begins to fail the owner will be abund¬ 
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or buy one of standard grade. j. e. r. 
Kicking Cows. —I have cured bad ones 
by putting a strap around the hind legs 
above the gambrel; cross the strap between 
the legs and buckle tight. They can neither 
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Corn in an 
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