The Republican journal., 1899-01-19
Silos in Waldo County.

pldnIeu lied Cob enSllaSo Co'H, WHICH
grew to an immense size, ming my slio
full. l had to enlarge the silo by taking
out the floor and digging into the ground,
adding six feet more to It's depth, making
it "a feet in depth by 9x1s feet. Cost will
not exceed $50 1t is built OF matched
boards. l have filled it every year, using
steam power for cutting. Never have put
any in without cutting. About ten quarts
of Red Cob seed is sufficient for an acre.
| have no means of telling how much can
be produced on an acre but | think have
produced 40 tons. The Red Cob never
matured and was not satisfactory. Since
the second year ! have planted for the
silo almost wholly the Sanford corn, which
| endeavor to cut when the ears become
glazed. Never have taken off any of the
corn except for seed | think it fully as
good for feeding as dried corn, saving
the labor of huskipg. | feed three times
day, morning and night with ensilage,
and at noon with hay before watering. l
feed a small ration of shorts and cotton
seed meal or gluten, preferring the latter.
In my opinion the silo fills long felt
need of the New England farmers, by
placing us beyond fear of periodical partial
failure of the hay crop, which is sure to
occur every few years, compelling us to
reduce our herds at Iuinously low prices.
[Charles c. Fowler,
UNITY. Silo was built last summer.
Size, s l-2x17 and Is feet high, with a
partition in it. | do not know the exact
capacity in tons [ filled it with Early
Sanford ensilage corn, using about IL
bushel of seed per acre. L had it cut and
put in with steam power ensilage cutter,
cutting the ears in with fodder | con
slider the enslage worth twice the same
amount dried. My method of feeding is
foddering of hay in the morning, 40
pounds of ensilage at noon and fodder
ing of oat straw at night. For grain
iced II quart corn meal ? quart gluten,
and 2 quarts mixed feed. | am much
pleased with the result of ensi]age feeding
and would advise all dairymen to have a
silo. &c. S Cook.
UNITY. My silo was built in 1897, of
spruce boards one inch thick, matched
and planed, with uprights 3x7. 1t cost
$40, and has a capacity of about 50 tons.
Silo has been filled twice with Sanford
white flint corn. One half bushel of seed
per acre was used and it yielded % tons
per acre. Was harvested when in the
glazed state. The corn, including ears,
was cut three fourths of an inch long,
with an ensilage cutter. | consider ensil-
age worth 40 per cent. more than dried
corn for feeding stock. My days ration
is 40 pounds of ensilage, s pounds mixed
hay, pounds oat meal and pounds
gluten meal. | consider the silo indis-
pensable to successful stock raising and
dairying, as | think that silage is the best
and cheapest food fer stock. Cows fed
on ensilage will give larger flow of milk
hoe 4 | hop faI witt
other kind OF fodder. Since feeding
with garget. | am now wintering % head
of cattle and without the silo could not
winter more than one half that number.
Frank Mussey.
LIBERTY My silo was built this fall !;
it cost about $50. 1t is XII II feet.
filled in this fall with corn, about 1-2
sweet and IL common native corn, which
was very stout. cut it when it was
fairly glazed, and put it in the silo whole.
| broke off about II of the ears, but
would not do SO again. | believe the eals
would have paid me better in the silo and
shall put them in next year. | think the
corn fodder is more than five times as
valuable in the silo as dried The com
perhaps would be as we'll dried, but il is
less work to put it in the slo than to
husk it. | feed it once day, at night. |
think it is tie greatest discovery of the
age, and every farmer should have one. |
have y head of cattle, 6 horses and 40
sheep, and every animal will eat it. The
horses will eat all the stalks the othe rs
leave. w. j. Knowlton.
UNITY. My slo was built in 1893. 1t
is built of ks, set two feet apart and
sheatbed up with best quality of matched
spruce lumber, with a double board floor
with two thicknesses of sleathing paper
between. Cost, about $50; capacity,
about 45 tens. 1t has been filled every
year with corn. The last two or three
years | planted the Sanford, and cut it ill.,
with ears on. l feed 40 pounds day to a
COW, 20 pounds night and morning, after
milking. | think it is of great value to
farmers, as they can keep more stock and
improve their farms, or they can sell a
few tons of hay without great injury.
W. F. Woods.
STOCKTON SPRINGS. | built my silo in
Septemb Der, 1896. 1t is double boarded
inside, with paper between, care being
taken to break joints in boarding. Capac-
ity, 2,312 cubic feet; cost, $50. | filled it
about half full of corn the first year. 1t
was later variety than | thought when l
bought it and | had to cut it when the
corn was forming on the ear. 1t was put
in whole. Shall not put corn in whole
again. 1t did very well as a substitute,
but ! would much rather have good hay
feed one feed day, one feed of hay, and
one feed of hay with little corn meal
and bran. fed my corn green this year,
but am planning to fill my silo next year.
FIRED M. Nickerson.
SANDYPoINT-M silo was built in
1898. l built it in a band of the barn,
with heavy timbers, and sheatbed up
with matched boards. The dimension,
ars 15x13x11 feet. 1t is not now in uses
because | am satisfied that with the same
amount of dressing hay will do better to
feed my stock. l used it only one year,
filling it with corn, of the White Ensilage
variety. 1t is late variety SO it only had
small ears. put it in whole. L should
say that ensilage would be better than
dried corn. l fed mine morning aud night
with grain, corn meal and shorts, and fed
hay at noon. 1t is my opinion that with
a plenty of good English hay the dairy
farmer has no use for the silo. For stock
raising it might do better, but for the
dairy anything SO offensive to the smell is
not good, l believe. E. G. Clifford.
BURNHAM-My silo was built year ago
last June Built Of matched boards, with
cement bottom. Cost, about S25.
Capaci1y. 40 tons 1t has been filled two