Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1904-06-03
agricultural.
Silo Building.

"Yes," said the old farmer, "1've
been a. using the silo now for 20 years
every winter, and some for summer soil
ing; built the first one in all this sec
ton, and it was for some years about
the only one. Yes, / like silage as a
feed pretty well fact is, after using it
SO long have come to believe in it. /"
There was a twinkle in his eye as he
added: pretty much oil of the dairy
men now have silos, and now the beef
feeders have found that silnge makes
beef faster and cheaper than dry food,
and they are now a-goin' into it. 1t is
comical to think that them fellows are
coming and asking COW men how to feed
steer" Then l thought of other silo
men who were experiencing "comicap'
things, even men who for 20 years have
opposed the silo from every standpoint,
from sauerkraut to saloon broth, but
who are now building silos and posing
as Original" promoters. One man who
had for years preached the shocking un-
healthfulness Of silage is now explaining
that the process Of Safeguarding causes
it to be health promoter, "because
when the corn is cut into the pit disso.
luton sets in, and by the liberation
Of oxygen the molecular structure is
changed and carbon-dioxide is set free,
with faint trace of alcohol, and-and-
we'll, the stuff is liked by the cows and
they do bang up" and the scientific
lecture was brought to a close for lack
of learned phrases, and the lecturer ap
pealed to the old COW as a referee, the
same as do all of our COW feed investi-
gators, and the fact that she has been
appealed to in this matter accounts for
the million-more or less--silos now 10
use in the United States. number to
be easily doubled in the next five years.
whats new to be said about silos p
l was asked the other day by several
men who are soon to erect their 6rst
silos. dts all new all the time" re-
piled. Il have never known SO much
inquiry about the silO as this winter.
and from every quarter. | had thought
the silo worn out as 80 institute talk
but it was the really one subject every
where, notably in sections where silos
are of common ownership | am con-
strained to think that in the East espe-
cially the farmers will have to stop COM
peting with the West in grain growing
and come down to the one grain crop
that they can grow-corn-and put it
into the silo and feed it into milk and
beef and growth in live stock, and bring
ing in alfalfa and the clovers, with it
produce farm-grown ration that de6es
competition and will make the old-time
farm again the old-time income-maker.
Until within a short time the most seri-
Gus objection to the silo was the expense
Of filing, but two things have come to
solve this difficulty--the corn-harvester
that cuts and binds field of corn at the
rate Of an acre an hour and the ex-
change Of labor. 1t was the custom
once to hire the crew that filled the silo;
now cooperation does it all, save the
expense Of the engine, the engineman
and his rig Ten farmers buy harvest
er and cutter and hire man with an
engine. The IL men are thus provided
They exchange about, hour for hour,
and this combined crew fills big silo
in a day, or two days at most. The farm.
ers come after chores and breakfast and
quit at $3.50 to go home aud milk, and
the dinner is the job of the farmers
wife Baltimore American.