The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-12-27


cesses. using apparatus that requires
an outlay OF millions. pays the freight
and delivers the kerosene and gaao-
line direct to consumers at a lower
rate than IS asked for mineral water
where the only expense Is to run the
water through pipe from the
spring into bottle. The Standard
oil company is doing this and maxi
ing more money tnan any other
large corporation because it utilities
all waste and all residue produced
in refining The Rock Island Lines
in one Of the large railway systems
Of the United States. Every night
the empty envelopes that have held
the days mail In the general Offices
are collected, baled and sold This
is only one example of the close econ
omy that is practiced in every de-
partment of this great railway sys-
tenn that serves fourteen states. AT
the same time the corn growers are
wasting most of 40 per cent OF the
feed value OF over one hundred mill
lion acres Of corn.
The sllo provides the corn grower
with the means for utilizing the larg-
est proportion OF the feed value OF
his entire crop, grain nd forage.
The Whole crop can be stored eco
nomically in the silo In a compact
form, with little waste. The sllage1
can be kept for days, months or
years, or feeding may begin as soon
as the filing OF the silo is com
pleted The silo can be filled IN good
weather, when it is raining. or Id
times of extreme drouth and hot
winds. Silage is a good feed daily
both In winter and summer II may
be fed daily through the winter.
When grass Is ready in the spring,
the feed that remains In the silo can
he covered and will keep well until
needed when the summer drouth
comes. Silage furnishes green,
sucCulent, appetizing feed through
The winter, the same as grass through
the summer. 1t keeps the animals
system in good condition as when
he stock is on goOd pasture, and
feeds given with it are better d.
gested when fed with dry forage.
Corn makes the best silage; Kafir
corn, milo and sorghum follow, their
value being in the order mentioned.
Broom corn, after the brush has been
harvested, is used successfully
around Liberal, Kansas. Green pea
vines and husks and cobs from the
canning factories make gool mater
al to put in the silo. lin continuous
rainy weather alfalfa, clover and 9TH
or hay crops may be saved in good
condition in the silo, Any solid
stemmed feed plant will make good
'ilage, If harvested at the right stage
of growth, Plants with hollow
stems, like green wheat and rye,
make silage that is unsatisfactory.
Every live stock growing district
n the United States needs the sllo,
The general use OF the silo will make
he hign-pr.eed small farms OF the
orn belt profitable growers, as we'll
is flnishers Of beef cattle aud mntS
on SHEEP The vast dry farming
ections Of the southwest viii be as
hickley settled with comfortable
ZONES as is the northern corn belt
whenever dairying, drouth-resistant
orage crops and the silo is the sys-
EN- Of farming followed, instead Of
rain farming. The south, with its
Millions of acres of cheap lands and
IS short, mild winters, can make
specially Of beef prOduc-
ion. whenever the silo and corn sill
&c is generally adopted on the farms
nd plantations. HI, NJ Cottrell, Az.
icuItural Commissioners for Rock Lar
and Lines,