Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-06
Ten Good Reasons for silos.
Register and Farmer.)


In conversation recently with II.
c. Hargrove, the pioneer silo man OF
Des Moines, Ia, he said:
I will give you what ! consider ten
good reasons why Iowa farmers
should have silos:
1. They can make more dollars
from the same quantity of land.
9. They can carry from 40 to 90
per cent more stock on the same
quantity OF land.
3. They can care for their stock
thru the winter months with less eX-
posure to themselves or outlay for Ia
Dor.
4. They can procure their winters
feed from the corn fields and sell
enough hay each year to pay for q
silo.
5. The manure produced from sill
age is bitter and easier to handle than
from dry or shredded fodder.
6. If dairyng, the cows will give
more milk on silage than any other
feed.
Z. If a cattle feeder. the steers will
take on more fat and eat less corn If
fed silage.
S. If fed to brood sows. they will
be healthier and will produce stronger
and healthier pigs than on any other
feed.
3. Silage is a splendid feed for
horses, cattle sheep, hogs, poultry or
any kind of live stock carried on a
farm.
TO- The universal use of silos in
a neighborhood will add so much to
the general prosperity of that neigh
in value from ten to twenty dollars
per acre.
could give you great many more
good reasons, but believe the above
will be sufficient to at least start the
unthinking farmers to consider the
question of silos.
Hogginq OF Corn.
dakota Farmer)
The practice of fencing a field of
corn and turning hogs into it after
the ears have begun to glaze, is
called hogging- off corn. 1t has beer
practiced extensively in Ohio and
other eastern states and to quite an
extent in the western part of the
corn belt.
Years ago this labor-saving prac-
tice was quite popular, but gradually
grew in disfavor until it was almost
abandoned. However, recent years
with scarce and high-priced hired help
have forced farmers to many methods
and practices that were distasteful,
and hogging off corn is one Of them.
Most farmers consider this rather a
shiftless way to harvest the corn crop
but nevertheless it has many points
in it's favor In fact, we believe that
it may be practiced to some extent
with profit and satisfaction on nearly
every farm.
The chief aim of the pork producer
is, of course, net profit, and THIS
method is known to produce as many
pounds of gain per acre as the more
careful and laborious hand-feedlng
More fencing is necessary, but this eX-
ira cost is balanced by the saving OF
husking. cribbing and feeding. To
many it seems that the hogs VIII
waste much of the grain by tramping
it into the ground. but experience
shows that they eventually get prac-
the pigs are required to take is bene-
fetal and healthful and, on the whole,
the method seems most desirable
one for the average farmer to pursue.
One feature that commends 1t TO
the farmer north of the corn belt
proper is that the extra early. row
growing varieties of flint corn, winch
are so difficult to husk by hand can pc
profitably gathered in this way me
sowing of from three to five pounds
of Dwarf Essex rape between the
rows at the last cultivation is gen
orally recommended. This FURNISHES
good balance for the corn ration. ~
is advised that the pigs be gradually
accustomed to the new corn before
being turned into the field. The MN
nesota experiment station has recently
conducted experiments along this llne
and reach the following conclusions.
First-Pork was produced with les