18 Thf: Colorado Experiment Station 
No method of dry curing of the crop is so efficient that it does 
not waste at leas-t as much as 30 per cent. In the dry, windy con¬ 
ditions which prevail, as much as 80 percent of the feed value may 
be lost. If put in the silo, at least 90 percent should be saved, un¬ 
der normal conditions. In other words, the loss need not be over 
10 percent and often will be less than 5 percent. The silo making- 
possible this great saving in feed is bound to have a much greater 
use upon the dry farms. 
Removing silage from pit silo, the type of silo best adapted to 
dry-land regions 
In many places dry farmers are making use of open range 
available to carry their stock in the summer. During some sea¬ 
sons this open range will be cut short by extreme drouth so that 
the animals lose flesh or fall off in milk production according to 
the kind of animals kept. If the dry farmer had a silo at this 
time, he could open the silo and feed some silage during the period 
of short pasture and keep up his gains on beef animals and his 
milk production on dairy animals. 
The entire question of dry farming and its success, then, can 
be summarized in the following brief statement of conditions: 
Forage crops are best adapted to the soil and climatic conditions. 
Under the best management, they should be grown and placed in 
the silo and be fed later to livestock. The livestock will consti¬ 
tute a constant market for successful crops which have no other 
available market. Cash crops should be grown, but they should 
be put on as an extra, or extra enterprises, rather than the chief 
dependence of the dry farmer. In most seasons some saleable 
