1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
867 
SILO FILLING; ADVICE TO BEGINNERS 
The condition of the corn as it goes into 
the silo has most to do with the success of 
the operation, as a general thing, and it 
would be difficult to say how many times 
one would have to fill a silo before he 
would know all about it. My advice would 
be to take into consideration the conditions 
under which each one is obliged to work, 
and not go entirely by what anyone says, 
no matter how much he knows. For in¬ 
stance, one may read that some one cuts 
his corn, and leaves it lying in the field 
to dry out partially before placing it in 
the field, but conditions vary, and during 
a hot, dry Fall, when corn is suffering 
from drought, or when it is well matured, 
this would not be safe. My own advice 
would be to make it a rule to get corn in 
the silo as fresh as possible, yet there are 
conditions under which this might, per¬ 
haps, make poor silage, as in the case of 
very green, immature corn. 
Silo filling is generally a rush job, which 
often materially adds to the cash outlay 
for extra hired hands, and these, together 
with the crew with engine and blower, if 
one depends on hiring machinery, make 
much extra work for the women folks. 
Much of this expense and trouble of board¬ 
ing extra help can be avoided, where one 
has his own engine and blower. In fact, 
if one has enough work of this kind to pay 
him to get his own outfit, a good gasoline 
engine and blower make it about as near 
perfection in handling this work as one 
can reach, or where one can easily get 
power, and depend on it, it is a great satis¬ 
faction to have the blower. I believe our 
own losses from depending on others for 
power, during the past few years, have 
amounted to more than the price of a 
good engine at the start- 
I do not wish to be understood as advis¬ 
ing the purchase of unnecessary machinery, 
as it is easy to get too much of it, but when 
a delay of a day or two in getting corn 
into the silo may mean a heavy loss in 
the actual feeding value of the silage, the 
advantage of having the outfit just when 
needed is considerable. We will suppose 
our beginner already has his machinery ar- 
ranged for. If the corn was planted early 
and the season favorable, the corn will 
probably have time to complete its growth 
before frost. It is easy enough to read 
about the proper stage at which corn 
should be put in the silo, but in our north¬ 
ern sections it is generally a race with 
Jack Frost, and sometimes he gets there 
first. 1 would much rather cut corn a 
little greener than the approved conditions 
than wait at a risk of having it badly 
frosted. It is a common practice to start 
corn binder a day or two ahead of time 
and leave corn lying in field to be hauled to 
machine as needed, but more than one ex¬ 
perience of tliis kind, where engine failed 
to arrive, was sufficient for me. With heavy 
corn in large bundles and favorable weather 
conditions, this may be all right, but 1 do 
not believe that corn badly dried ever 
makes as good silage as if put in fresh. 
Through force of circumstances in being 
obliged to fill silo with as little extra help 
as possible, it has been our plan to pile 
a large part of the corn in the field as fast 
as cut. Three or four bundles are laid side 
by side, lengthwise of rows, fiat on the 
ground; then directly on these, with butt 
ends drawn back a foot or more, and tops 
extending past the others and touching 
upon the ground, another layer is placed, 
and the pile continued in this way, as 
large or long as desired, making a long, low, 
narrow pile, with butt ends up and tops 
sloping down to ground, not large enough 
to heat, and the heavy ends of the corn 
alone exposed over a large part of the 
top of the pile. If desired to leave m piles 
for some time we throw a few extra bun¬ 
dles over top of pile for shade. \\e have 
had corn keep in line condition in these 
piles for a week or 10 days. This makes 
extra handling, but it also saves some time 
in loading and handling during rush of 
filling silo. We make bundles of medium 
size, as nothing is gained in the long run 
making “man-killers.” A man can handle 
more corn in a day pitching light or me¬ 
dian! weight bundles (they are all heavy 
enough) than where too heavy. In haul¬ 
ing to machine, if one does not have a spe¬ 
cial low rack upon which corn can be 
placed in tiers from the ground, a common, 
fiat bottom hay rack is very handy, but it 
pays to have one man or boy on the wagon 
to load, as it is at the machine, more than 
in the field that every minute counts. Be¬ 
gin loading at back end of wagon, building 
up a narrow bent on tier against back 
standard or rack, as high as load is needed, 
then build in successive tiers to front of 
wagon. With care in loading in this way 
there is no tugging, sweating and losing 
time hunting for bundles, but teamster 
stands on solid footing, unloads from front 
to back, all clear for fast work. A small 
sloping table at side of carrier on the ma¬ 
chine, on which to drop the bundles from 
the wagon, saves pounding the hands of 
the man (or woman it may be) feeding 
the machine. A silo holds more when 
corn is cut fine, but nothing is gained by 
carrying this to extremes, as more time 
and' power are required to cut fine. Half 
inch or five-eighths inch lengths makes a 
more satisfactory job than cut coarser. I 
believe there is a great deal of time and 
money wasted in filling silo by placing 
sometimes two or three men in the silo to 
level the cut corn and tramp it. I would 
rather have a boy with a fishing pole sit¬ 
ting in top of silo, directing the stream of 
cut corn about the silo than two or three 
men in silo, as the force with which it is 
blown packs it tighter than any man can 
ever do it, spreading and tramping. A piece 
of sheet iron, 48x118 inches, rolled the long 
way into a cylinder, and the ends riveted, 
answers nicely. 
There is one mistake to avoid, where one 
may be working short handed and desires 
to be ready ahead of time, and that is, 
never pile corn in large piles at the ma¬ 
chine, and depend on machinery to be there 
at a certain time. We did this once, but 
the promised engine failed to arrive on 
time, and there was a hot time in the 
piles. Where one is making a family af¬ 
fair of silo filling, it is often handy to drop 
a few loads near machine, to be run out 
quickly, when all hands can be together on 
the job. it is a nice way to do it, when 
one had his own outfit, and 1 know a 
woman who likes to feed the cutter and is 
a good hand at it. imaac C. kouers. 
Livingston County, N. Y. 
Garget. 
I have a cow that gives lumpy bloody 
milk out of all teats. She is a three-year- 
old and has just come in. I know no rea¬ 
son for this. Can you give any remedy? 
West Virginia. w. a. b. 
Where such abnormal milk comes from 
each quarter of the udder the condition 
is unusually severe, and there is little pros¬ 
pect that the function of the udder can 
be preserved. Foment the udder with hot 
water three times a day and then rub in a 
mixture of equal parts of sweet oil and fluid 
extracts of poke root and belladonna leaves, 
or put on a compress of spent hops to be 
kept saturated with hot water. Strip away 
the milk six times a day. Internally give 
two drams of saltpeter and half an ounce 
of fluid extract of poke root twice daily 
in water. a. s. a. 
Anemia. 
I have a heifer that has a swelling under 
the jaw and along the neck ; it appears as 
though there is a watery substance gath¬ 
ered there. She seems to eat and drink 
well, and does not seem as though there 
was any pain. Will you advise me what 
tliis is, and what can be done to remove 
the swelling? c. o. 
New York. 
Such a dropsical swelling is but the 
symptom of debility and bloodlessness due 
to some internal disease, such as tubercu¬ 
losis. We cannot say what is the exact 
cause in this case, nor prescribe treatment. 
Under tlie circumstances a graduate veter¬ 
inarian should be employed to make the 
necessary examination, and if need be test 
with tuberculin. It may be, of course, that 
there is some abscess, tumor or condition 
of the tongue causing the swelling, but 
anemia (bloodlessness) is more probable. 
a. s. a. 
Warts, Tumors. 
1. What can I do for heifer coming two 
years old? She lias a lot of warts on her 
neck and around her head ; sometimes they 
look red and are getting larger all the 
time. A stock man told me they fall off 
after some time, but I do not like to see j 
them. They came on this Spring after I 
turned her to pasture. Some of them are 
as big as a man’s fist. I never had experi¬ 
ence with them before, and cannot see the 
cause. 2. I have a cow with three 
hunches on her right front leg. She is a 
valuable cow and I do not like to see them 
on her, but they do not hurt her. They are 
as big as hens’ eggs. j. m’d. 
1. The warts should be twisted out by 
the roots and a red hot iron lightly ap¬ 
plied to the bases to stop excessive bleeding. 
If you do not care to do this, which is the 
best possible treatment, rub in castor oil 
freely twice a day and in time they will 
disappear. 2. These are tumors, the na¬ 
ture of which cannot be decided at present. 
Better let them alone. If cut out they 
sometimes tend to come back and others 
appear elsewhere upon the body and inter¬ 
nally. Where that occurs the tumors are 
cancerous, malignant and incurable. 
A. s. A. 
WHY 
Do They Pretend? 
Why do makers or agents of common 
cream separators pretend that such mach¬ 
ines are modern? They know that disks or 
other contraptions are not needed in prop¬ 
erly built machines. They know that con¬ 
traptions are merely makeshifts to cover up 
lack of skimming force resulting from 
wrong construction. They know that 
Sharpies 
Cream 
Dairy Tubular 
Separators 
Dairy 
Tubular 
Bowl. 
Made 
right. 
No disks 
needed. 
contain n o 
contraptions, 
yet produce 
twice the 
skimming 
force, skim 
faster and 
twice asclean 
a s common 
machines. 
They know 
that Tubular 
■ 
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construction is patented 
and is the only known 
way of building simple 
and modern separators. They know that Tubu¬ 
lars put common separators out of date ten 
years ago. Do they think they can hide these 
facts or mislead you by pretending an out-of- 
date macliino Is modern ? 
Tubulars are The World’s Best. World’s big¬ 
gest separator works. Branch factories In Canada 
and Germany. Saleseasilyexeeed most,ifnotall, 
others combined. Probably replace more com¬ 
mon separators than any one maker of such 
_ machines 
sells. 
Write for 
Catalogue 
Mo. 153 
30 
yrs 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Chicago, 111., Sun Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore. 
Toronto, Can.. Winnipeg, Can. 
No Barn is Complete Without a 
PORTER LITTER CARRIER 
Greatest capacity, 
easiest to operate and 
strongest of litter car¬ 
riers. Carrier wheels 
are roller hearing and 
are swivelled in such 
a manner as to round 
a curve with perfect 
ease. Runs on our 
celebrated "Colum¬ 
bian ” track, which 
can be bent to any 
curve, aud will sus¬ 
tain any reasonable 
weight. The hop¬ 
per is held auto¬ 
matically at any 
height aud can be tripped at will of operator. Send 
for descriptive catalog of carriers, hay tools, etc. 
J. E. PORTER CO., OTTAWA, ILL. 
MEET ME AT THE FAIR AND I LL TELE YOU 
. HOW YOU CAN RID 
" .YOUR STOCK OF 
DEADLY Ji— 
^j^woRNs^raB. 
m- 
I WANT to invite every 
farmer who is visiting 
the fair to come to my 
exhibit. I’ll show you how 
worms are eating at the 
stomach and intestines of 
your stock and robbing you of your profits. You can see the actual worms 
themselves. You’ll be surprised at their size and how m&ny they multiply 
to in a single animal. I’ll show you photographs of actual sheep and hogs 
which won over all competition when conditioned by my great worm remedy 
and conditioner. J 
_MARK 
A MEDICATED 
SALT 
ABSOLUTELY 
GUARANTEED 
•H VS 
Isn’t this the strongest guaranty you ever saw ? I’ll feed 
, , ... , , -your stock Sal-Vet for SvC? 
6o days. If it doesn t expel all free worms in the stomach and intestines and stop AOs 
all losses due to these worms and indigestion, you need not pay me a cent. Come A. 
and let me show you a sample of this wonderful remedy and its work. * / <r 
Sal-Vet not only expels worms but it will tone up your stock, sharpen their S J? J&ar 
appetites, make food fatten them quickly and put them in condition to get 
top market prices. With Sal-Vet your sheep, hogs, horses and cattle will 
doctor themselves, keep healthy and make more money for you. 
For the benefit of those who cannot attend the fair this same g 
anteed offer holds good. Just fill out and send me the coupon and 1 
send you enough Sal-Vet to feed your stock for 6o days. If it fails 
you pay nothing. If it cures.it will cost you only about one-twelth 
of a cent per day for each hog or sheep. Even one animal saved 
will more than make up for the cost of Sal-Vet for the entire 4 
herd. / 
PRICES / , 
-10 lbs., #3.85 5iOO lbs., #9.00 jfj?, 
lOO lbs.. #5.00 300 lbs., #13.00 + ? 
DiHcounts tor larger quantities. 
SIDNEY R. FEIL , Pres. 
THE S. R. FEIL CO ., Dept. R. M.-Y. 
CLEVELAND , OHIO 
GREEN MOUNTAIN 
SILOS 
Three bearings all around 
each door like a safe or re¬ 
frigerator door. Hoops are 
stronger than others. Staves, 
doors and fronts soaked in 
preservative if you wish. 
Green Mountain Silos differ 
from other round silos. 
Free catalogue gives details. 
Post card will bring it. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CO 
338 West Street, Rutland, Vt. 
FOR FAST, PERFECT, 
ECONOMICAL WORK 
you must use Gale-Baldwin cutters. The only 
perfect, successful cutter for ensilage and dry- 
fodder. Does the work, with less power, in less 
time, than any other. Just the machine for 
people with llghtpower engines. You’ll lind that 
Gale-Baldwin 
ENSILAGE CUTTERS 
are best after careful i nvestigation. They are the 
up-to-date cutters, with elevators to fill the high¬ 
est silos. Safety fly whee\ safety treadle lever. 
Cut 1 different lengths, cut fastest, feed easiest. 
With or without traveling feed table. We will 
save you money ,if you write now for Free Book. 
The Belcher A Taylor A. T. Co. 
Box 75. 
Chicopee Falle. 
Me 
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BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE FOR 
NEW CATALOG DESCRIBING THE 
GUARANTEED MONEY-SAVING 
INTERNATIONAL 
SILOS 
strongest built, simplest to put up and easiest operated 
on the market. Adjustable automatic take-up hoop- 
continuous open-door front—air-tight door and per¬ 
manent ladder are some of the unusual features. The 
International 8ilo Co.. 113 Main St.. LineaviJJa. S9» 
SILO FILLING 
MACHINERY 
BLOWER and Travel¬ 
ing FEED TABLE 
FOR YOUR 
APPROVAL 
CLEAR HARD-WOOD 
IN PRICE. 
FILLERS 
DISTRIBUTORS 
& DELIVERERS 
KALAMAZOO*^ CO, 
MICHIGAN 
COW COMFORT 
Means Cow Profit 
The quality of Foster Steel 
Stanchions is known everywhere 
Durability and ease of operation 
unsurpassed. Send for new cata¬ 
logue of Stanchions and Water 
Basins, showing model stables 
Fonter Steel Stanchion Co., 
906 Ins. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y 
r ROBERTSON’S CHAIN 
b RANGING STANCHIONS 
“I hnve used them for more 
than TWENTY YEARS, and they 
have given the very best of satis¬ 
faction in every way,” writes 
Justus H. Cooley, M.D., Plaintield 
j Sanitarium, Plainfield, N. J. 
1 Thirty days’ trial on application 
O. If. KOHERTSOX 
Wash. St., Forestville, Conn. 
M & d0 
in 
size* to 
Suit all 
wants 
from 5 to 
15 H.P.Engine. 
Sold on their own merits. 
No Money Required with Order 
Fill Your Silo—Pay Afterward® 
Write for catalog and information. A postal will do. 
The E. W. ROSS CO., Box 13 Springfield, O. 
rQMMD’C IMPROVED 
V^numDO WARRINER 
STANCHION 
Prof. F. G. Helyar of 
Mt. Herman School, Mt. 
Herman, Mass., writes: 
“ We could not get along 
without Warriner Stanch¬ 
ions.” 
Send address for book¬ 
let of information to 
WALLACE B. CRUMB, BoxMl, ForcstvIUe, Coum. 
