Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-17


The siIo.
Cisco. Tex. Feb. 10, 1895.
Il. l.. Huffman. Agricultural Editor:
Dear Strive can raise green crops
in luxuriance in West and Northwest
Texas up to certain point, sorghum.
maize, to AN immature stage, etc. III
we had some way now OF preserving
the crops IN that stage. to use in ran,
winter and spring, as u food TO fatten
cattle and hogs, Northwest TeNas
would blossom as the rose. In
this connection, why not have
some articles on the silo, and
cnsilage2 l have IN personal In
terest as am thinking OF building
one. but l want TO know first II 1t ID
practicable, and second. profitable.
To MI these two points, they must
be cheap Of construction and require
no expensive machinery 10 I'LL them;
at least while they are In the expert
mental stage. So please give me some
OF the results of the attempts Of others
with specifications for constructing Il
cheap silo to hold 80 or 40 acres OF
stun, can II be eNcavated In the
ground7 Can broOmcorn be grown
j. II. ZIMMERMAN
The above letter Is from a man who
believes that the Creator did not make
West Texas just to keep from leaving
a hole In the ground. He believes that
It was made for man to inhabit, aud he
is evidently adopting the right plan
on which TO proceed Intelligent IN
vestigation and experiment VIII do
much for West Texas Cisco Is In a
fine fruit county. fhe only large
collection OF pears ever shown at the
state fair came from within thirty
miles of Cisco. and from exactly the
same soil formation. There were eight
al h1rpa Ia
six years IN succession without blight
Ing This is the best pear record In
the state.
The word sIlo means pit for hold
ing grain. over one hundred years
ago green forage foods were put
up in pits In Germany and
saved, something on the plan
OF preserving cabbageB In the
form OF kraut. Public attention. how
ever, was called TO this method OF pre-
serving foods by F'renchman, and
only about twenty years ago. The
first sllo tested In this country was
some fifteen years ago, and the fact
that they are IN general use in many
states Is In favor, both Of practicable
was pit, and If pits can be made air
ana water tight at Cisco, they can be
eNcavnted nj that point They are
now both made under ground and on
top Of the ground. The points sought
IL TO cheaper cost and make them air
ana water tight, Food preserved In a
allO " called eusiluBe. The chemist
cnn discover but little difference in the
feeding value OF epsllnfre and the for
nro crona ureserycd "a hnv The AMI
NAL however. shows n marked differ
encc I'm fnvor az onsllngs, IL ia more
dIgestnble. and succuient and sun
piles the NATURAL demands OF the ami
mai wants, A sheep viii consume
about uye pounds III water. per day
in The ANAL amount of green food il
enta in tho stinmer Fed an hay. his
nvo nounds Of water cnt, never he nd
deJ nj the Dropc,. time. led ON ensli-
ago this dlnicultV ia removed. This IA
the case with ali animals.
II liz said that double the amount of
stock cnn be fed on crops preserved
ms enallnTe. ag on tho same amount of
cropg preserved in any other way, All
domeattc anlnalp thrive on ensIlagc.
but beat resultg nrc obtained where
a ls fed na "A mixed ration.
ia MOI eNpenaivc and Inc nlIIur Il done
by allow degrees. and not ali nj once.
many cheap wayg Of preparlnr the
materials rnn he ifnnrnvised Most
fornpe crons cnn ne usod INIT rreen
corn an. mike I'D tho most rrnorni If
A doubtful whether IL renuires more
exnsnsa and cnrn 10 snvc fnrns,s crons
ma cnallnro thnn n does ma ba,, n
an, me yviu yiett Tho r,art ,,,,,,,r,. no.,
a. sold no win soon icnrn maj moi one
man in fivc bundled mas nrat-clnsa hnv
Most nav in Texas Is made durln,s a
fst, d.vs ia Iui,, mn, t,,rns.,s 4, a
provors reoiiire ono ,car "a ,,ai,o ~
iine nav NOV offer 10 The nnbiic ana
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