The state herald., 1913-09-19

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banks and money loaners of the county
have recognized the fact that cows
used for dairy purposee are first class
Isecurity and there has been no trouble
for farmers to borrow money on their
cows and this is doubly true when the
cows are dairy bred.
The introduction of the silo in Phil.
lips county is of very recent date as all
the residents of the county are well q.
ware. The building of silos was advo-
Gated by the Herald years before any
farmer attempted to make test of the
silo.
If we are correctly. informed E. F.
Kimmel constructed on his farm near
Amherst the first sllo in the county.
This silo was pit silo and was con-
structed in 1910. In the following year
1911, Fred Borland and A. C. Cauble
each built silo on his farm southeast
of Holyoke.
These farmers who had the nerve to
to test the silo as an investment most
certainly deserve the credit for the in
PRODUCTION of the silo in the, county.
After few silos have been construct
ed and tits clearly seen that it is mon
ey maker for not only the farmer in the
dairy business but for the farmer who
is raising beef cattle it does not require
nearly so much nerve for others to
build them or for banks and money
loaners to loan money for the construc
tion of them which they are all now
ready to do since silo building has been
demonstrated to be financially safe
proposition for Phillips county.
If the Phillips county farmers had,
for the past 16 years, been fortunate
enough to have had the use Of si-
los in their business, we can scarcely
imagine the increase in the output of
dairy products they would have been q.
BILE to show for these years. While the
silo has had very little TO do with the
present successful condition of the dairy
industry in the county, yet we believe
that its benefits to the industry have
been so well demonstrated that the
farmers will hasten to avail themselves
Of this aid and we are safe in predict |
ing that the next five years will wit !
ness n much greater growth in the dai
ry industry of the county than it has
seen in any ten years of its past history. |
We clip the following interviews with
A. C. Cauble and Fred Borland of this
county from the write-up in the Ster.
ling Advocate referred to:
"a. C. Cauble living nine miles south /
east of Holyoke, was one of the first
interviewed and subsequent interviewsI
|substantiated all he said and gave just
varying outline of experiences and re |
suits attained. Mr.. Cauble milks II
cows and feeds them from two silos h
Each silo has capacity of 81 tons and |
was filled last fall. From these he fed |
his cows, horses. pigs and chickens, for
Everything on the place." Mr.. Cauble /
says, "eats ensilage and likes 1t, and
It does them good" Out of the two
silos, he has probably an eighth of 81 +
10 full of feed left which will last until /
the ensilage of this year is in readiness. |
To fill these silos, required so acres
of corn. One ton Of ensilage is equal
to six tons of hay or other forage crop
in nourishing and fattening properties
and where one ton Of hay occupies 500|
cubic feet, ton Of ensilage occupies
only so cubic feet. About 30 pounds OF
ensilage is fed each COW daily, and on
this, she keeps in the best of condition
and yields milk unsurpassed in quality
Before built silo and fed ensilage
| sold about so worth of cream year
per cow stated Mr.. Cauble. dur.
ing the last three years, since | have
fed from the silo, that has been doub-
led, until last year, each Of. my cows
earned s5i for me, and they are, as you
see, just ordinary cows. They are not
blooded animals, nor are they bred with
any special view Of making mixers out
Of them"
In addition to the s59i received BY
MIR. Caublc Mt the cream station, where
he is paid the same day he delivers the
cream. neccssiiating no delays or extra
bookkeeping. Mr.. Cauble's family
eight was supplied with butter. cream
and other milk products; he sold several
head Of calves for veal and fattencd
others for beef for which he received
good prices. And another item Of con-
siderable Importance, he was enabled
to fatten several pigs with his skim
med milk and ensilage; these he sold
for s722-The product Of two sows."
Erred Borland, peighbor Of Mr..
Caublc. was among those inter
viewed, and his praise for the silo and
dairy was even more enthusiastic than
Mr.. Cauble's. Mr.. Borland is one Of