Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-13
Agrienltnral department,
sILo EXPERIENCE.


Almost every day I receive a let
ter from somebody asking about the
wooden silo built this year into the /
hay NOV. The best way for my
farmer friend to do is to come and
see for themselves, cattle and hogs, !
horse and calves, fed on nothing but
ensilage, except poor pasturage, since
the first of October, with the excep-
ton of the hogs, which I feed half
meal and bran. The cattle look bet
ter than ever before, even when l
have fed grain. | find the largest
COWS need about 100 pounds, and the
smaller ones in proportion. As my
crop fell awfully short of estimates
made in the field, shall commence
feeding some bran to make it hold
out. A word about the crop of
corn; I planted four different kinds,
Blount's, White Prolific, Bailey's and
Southern White. Bailey's turned
out far ahead of all the others many
stalks would measure twelve and
fourteen feet high and weigh twelve
and a half pounds, when matured,
and it was very easy to figure 100
tons to an acre but come to get it
into the siIo, there was a mighty
shrinkage, about 40 tons from 8
acres but [ am well satisfied the
same land would not cut ga of a ton
of hay to the acre. The wooden silo
| built by simply boarding to barn
frame, with common, unmatched
boards, and filling with sawdust /;
two sides boarded to studding, leav-
ing a space of about one foot, filed
as the other sides with sawdust, the
sides well braced, until after filled
and weighted, or until done settling,
when there is no pressure on the
sides. I built this myself in one
week; the total expense Of cutting
and filling one hundred and forty
tons, outside my own help, was $40
and the expense of raising, including
cutting, did not exceed 500. This
wooden silo has demonstrated one
thing, that cheap silo answering
all purposes, can be put into the
barn when we want it, along side OF
the COWS. My stone silo, 20 feet
away from the barn door, only, makes
double the work in feeding. [ also
find | can take my own time filling ;
silo, by keeping the fodder well trod
den down. | put horses on th'
stone silo, but did not use prope
care about the corners, where
found it decayed about six inches
e @. Morton, ESSeG, IT.
: CARE OF Mich COws.-The own
e er of moderate-sized farm in one 0
- the central counties of this state, ha
become so successful in the quantit
d of milk which he obtains from hi
e ten COWS, as to induce the particula
to inquiry how, or by what process h
AZ obtained more milk than was afford
ed from an equal number in the hes
at diaries in that region of country
The answer in substance was, by th
as perfect care which the animals II
ne ceived. The management is divide
st between the owner and his son. Th
of father does the whole of the milking
the COWS are well acquainted wit
him and with his gentle treatmen
ag and the milk is not diminished b
al their being frightened of strangers
re The son does all the feeding, an
nd knows just how much each anim
.u will eat, and distributes the amour
in accordingly. Every one has enoug
and none are surfeited by waste
' :. food. Each one attends inyariab
to his own department, and no q
s s9s traction at the neighboring city
demand on their time will draw eth
ted away from the care of the COWS
the regular time for feeding or mil
ing. The fine condition of these a
lille imals when we saw them, and Il
comfortable quarters provided f
n ho them, showed the careful attentic
salt which they receiyed.-Countyy &c
MY Hemdn.
cad
vod At the state fair we noticed t