The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-29
Live Stock.
SHEEP IN THE SOUTH.


itH-CRnned Goods and tilage Preserved
Alike-Cut silage the Best No Waste
Bucculent PRODUCTS ValuabIe "COndi-
mentso-A Shepherd misunderstanding
Disease More Profitable Than Curing.
Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
is is not necessary for me TO dis
cuss the silo, It's construction nor the
merits of shat system of preserving
feed for stock. Is is enough to say
that is is q successful way as proved
by thousands of people in this coun-
try and in Europe. Only so far as it
pertains to the sheep business will
I refer 80 is.
Ihave~no t had the opportunity to
thoroughly test together the dry
feed cut and steamed and silage so
ag TO compare and decide which is
the better but having tried them
separately, | believeit depends most
ly on conditions Different seasons,
crops and locations alter the condi
tons, so that one may hardly know
which 80 recommend as the better,
Perhaps it would be like the young
lady who had two excellent and good
looking beaux and was unable to de-
eide which she had better take, but
finally said Z Mother, / could be salts
aed TO take either n were the other
Dear Charmer swayt"
There was q time when a silo vas
Generally understood 30 mean an ex
cavation in a hillside, walled up like
a well or cellar with brick or stone
and cemented air tight. Now, for
example, a silo means only q round
wooden structure built under shelter
I'm the fashion of a water tank, tight
enough when filed TO exclude the
air from it's sides and bottom and
with a smooth surface inside so that
the silage may easily slip down as it
becomes more solid from it's own
Weight,
Preserving fruit by the canning
methods is exactly the reverse of
preserving it by the old drying meth
cd 80 preserving feed by the silo
process is exactly she reverse of pre-
serving it by the drying out method.
The silo makes is convenient TO
harvest into it at morning, noon or
evening, wet or dry in all kinds of
weather, and the feed when put
away in it is safe until used as feed
/ wish TO be distinctly understood as
saying that no long fodder, grass nor
anything should be tossed into the
silo as feed for sheep, but all should
be cut short so as TO be fed with the
shovel instead of the fork and with
oott IN seed meal, bran or grain if
needed This Is decidedly the best
way TO preserve and feed is.
IF the weather is not favorable and
even at best, there is considerable
waste in getting fodder, pea vines
and such cured without mold, and
moldy food is a nuisance. When
we'll cured il is not so good as silage
unless it is cooked, and TO steam and
feed it properly requires constant
work all through the feeding season,
more work than is required TO feed
out the silage.
In the silo system properly CON-
Quoted, with we'll built siIos, there
Is less waste of feed than by any
other system, when we consider that
all of dry feed that is bleached out
or nodded is even worse than no feed
at all, unless it be merely to sustain
life until good feed is secured.
have long been convinced that
either the dry out up and steamed
feed or silage feed, is better for the
South than the dry feed system of
the North. Food for sheep in the
South should be adopted from it's
own unique conditions. It's soil, sun
and climate promote rapid and
abundant growth while it lasts.
The leguminous, pulse ANIMALS
grow in great abundance TO perfec-
ton here. The best feeds are the
more suooulent and rapidly grown,
such as corn, sorghum, millet, beans,
peas, rape, etc. ; not only so, but
these mixed from the soils, with corn
meal, cotton seed meal, fax seed
meal and bran, constitute as good
sheep feed as there is on earth, even
for those along on the highest and
most progressive lines of thorough
breeds of all kinds, as we'll as the
common sheep and equally as good
for wool "a for mutton in their high