Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-07
kENMARE Farmer IS
Believed in SILOS
WRITS OF HIS EXPERIENCES TO
STATE DAIRY COMMISSION
Err FLINT.
Was the Pioneer Dairy Man in His
Part Of the Country - Would Not
Be Without SiIo.

sending letters to number Of the
farmers of the state regarding their
success in the dairy business, and the
following letter received from Ken
mare is one of the results and has
been published in pamphlet form and
sent out to the papers Of the state,
and it is hoped for the good of the
movement for better dairy conditions
that every paper in the state will
give the entire letter space and that
all editors will comment upon it:
MIR. F. R. Flint, Bismarck, North Da-
k0ta.
Dear Sir: In reply to your letter
Of the 22nd, will say, that l began
to raise corn and agitated the growing
of corn in this community several
years ago, loaned my corn tools to
neighbors and sold '-orn machinery,
to get them started. Now there is
hardly farmer in the vicinity who
does rot raise some corn, and most
of them large fields, and this part of
my implement trade has developed
from few common hand planters
and one horse cultivators, to several
check row planters and corn binders,
as we'll as thirty riding cultivators
last season.
This year was the. poorest corn
year we have ever had in this locality
on account of continued drouth dur
ing the best part of the corn grow
ing season, as we'll as early frosts;
still there was a good deal of corn
fodder grown, and from the senti-
ment Of the farmers, I know that the
acreage in corn will be materially i'm
creased next year, and I also know
several who will build silos.
/ built 165 ton silo three years
ago and would not think of raising
stock, and especially keeping mich
COWS without it. This year the corn
was badly frozen land the leaves dried
I'D, and supplied the dampness by
running water into the ensilage cut
ter, through hose, while cutting the
corn, and I cannot see any difference
in the silage, it is quite green, sweet,
and greatly relished by all the stock.
Our worst draw back in raising
corn, in this northern country. is early
frost, and, on account of the early
fall the corn fodder is never sufti-
GENTLY cured so it will keep in a
stack, and about the only way to
take care of it, without a silo, is to
n,ut it up in good shocks in the field
and haul it as used, but this method
is unsatisfactory in years with a heavy
snowfall.
The silo over~omes these difficult
ties, as the corn makes good silage
even if frozen and if the right amount
of moisture is properly supplied it
eliminates the task of hauling the
corn in during the cold stormy win
ter weather, and the disagrecable
part of handling manure with frozen
ccrnstalks mixed in it, and last, but
not least, it furnishes succulent feed
for mich cows, insuring a greater
flow of milk, during the part of the
year that dairy products bring the
best price, and it keeps the young
stock in a healthy and growing con-
dition.
The above has been my experience
with corn, silo, ana silage and in my
opinion, the growing of corn is one
of the most profitable crops on the
farm With proper cultivation it
cradicates the weeds and conserves
the moisture in the land, it increases
the stock growing, as we'll as the
grain growing capacity of the farm
and the amount, as we'll as the quail
ity Of the fertilizer, and the sooner
the farmers are convinced of this fact
the sooner they will be on the road
to prosperity.
Yours truly.