The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-09-23
CONCERNING SILAGE

Regarding outside doors for slos
II. e. Cook says in Rural New Yorker:
Il am using doors hung upon the out
side and firmly believe they are the
best and they can be hung upon Il
brick silo. Set the jambs when laying
the wall, using 3 by stuff thoroughly
anchored with rods running into the
brick wall q foot and upon the four
sides. Bevel this jamb for a wood
door three inches thick, hang with
heavy hinges and fasten with ordinary
lcebOX fasteners, and you have a door
always ready, never out of repair.
opened and shut in a moment and no
loss of silage. This door can be used
upon any silo."
Filling the SiIo.
Rapid or slow filling has little or no
effect on the keeping Of silage, says l..
w. Lightly in National Stockman.
Where we fill rapidly it is necessary
to tramp the silage to increase the silo
capacity. Where we fill slowly the
silage settles of it's own weight, and
all the work of tramping and packing
is saved. The finer we cut our corn
the more readily it will pack closely
The COWS also prefer it finely cut and
macerated. A good blower will elevate
the silage all right, but takes much
more power than a carrier.
Corn For Si1age.
1t is not generally desirable to allow
the corn to wilt in the field before put
ting it into the silo, as it loses water
very rapidly and may not contain
enough to cure and preserve the feed.
L. w. Lightly in National Stockman.
Believes In the Silo.
In the annual report of the Missouri
state board of agriculture John Pat
terSOn has this to say of the silo:
After having used this plan for sew
eral years of preserving feed for win
ter, [ am more and more pleased with
it. I do not think there is anything
yet found that makes as good and cheap
feed as corn put in the silo. An acre
of corn that turns out forty bushels
per acre, if cut when it comes out Of
the roasting ear and is quite green,
will make ten tons per acre. You know
that good land, we'll fortified and well
tended, can double that and will make
twenty tons per acre. Four tons is
sufficient to feed a COW through the
winter, thus making an acre maintain
five COWS. But it would not be good
to feed any stock on ensilage alone.
The addition of ten to fifteen pounds
of good clover hay for COWS giving
milk, and three to six pounds of bran
per day, or in place of some of the
bran two pounds of linseed or cotton
seed meal, makes good mixture.
Silagc In the South.
Silage is one of the greatest crops
that can be utilized by the southern
farmer, not only in the dairy business,
but if he is feeding or maintaining live
stock, particularly cattle and sheep.
through the winter. If the value of
silage and silos were truly appreciated
in the south today, it would add won
derfully to the carrying capacity of
lands and put a profit in the pockets of
farmers that would indeed make them
feel happy.-Southern Agriculturist. !
Round Cement Silo.
Professor Andrew NJ. Soule of the
Tennessee experiment station says
about silos: From our investigations
we believe that the round cement silo
is the best to build, because it has no
joints for the air to pass through to
the silage, the cement coating will
stand the acid better and can be re-
moved, the building will last longer,
and where the sand and gravel are near
the cost will not be much greater than
the other kinds. OF course there is the
expense for the frame or mold, but
much Of this lumber can be used for
other purposes afterWard and would
not necessarily be d part Of the silo's
cost"