The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-12
DREW BIC CROWD
Rock Island Silo Special Met
by $4,000 in Kansas Alone.
End of Trip Through This
State Covering 700 Miles.

Officials of the Rock Island Lines in
Topeka today state that the silo spec
1al through Kansas drew crowds at ~
stations numbering more than Is, 900 per-
sons along 700 miles of territory. The
special completed it's course in Kan
sas last night-a trip designated as in
valuable to the farmers of the state
by the railroad officials and the instruc-
tors at the Kansas State Agricultural
college.
every station on the route through the
state and the railroad officials predict
that the result will be a doubling of
the number of silos along the Rock
Island Lines and an accompanying
doubling Of the profits on Kansas
farms.
State officials, officers of the railway,
instructors from the agricultural COL
lege, prominent bankers and business
men and the press combined to make
the specials instruction success.
The towns visited: Goodland, Brew
Dresden, Jennings, Clayton, Norton,
calvert, Almena, Prairie View, Stutt-
CART Phillipsburg, Agra, Kensiington
Athol, Smith Center, BelIaire, Leba-
non, Esbon, Otego, Mankato, Montrose,
Formosa, CourtIand, Scandia, Rydal,
Belleville, Cuba, Agenda, Clyde, Cliff
ton, Morganville, Clay Center, Brough-
ton, Bala, Riley, Keats, Zeandale, Wa
baunsee, Alma, Alta Vista, White City,
Herington, Ramona, Tampa, Durham,
Canton, Galva, Mcpherson, Groveland,
Medora, Hutchinson, Partridge. Airing
ton, Turon, Preston, Pratt, Wellsford,
Haviland, Greensburg, Mullinville,
Bucklin, Mineola, Fowler, Meade, Plains
and Liberal.
In summing up the success of the
trip and the most important informa-
ton dealt out to the farmers, G. C..
Wheeler. associate editor of the Kan
sas Farmer, who spent several days
with the train. made the following
statement today:
Immature crops must be largely
use d for silage this year. The stuntcd,
immature crop does not contain the
tured crops, but properly placed in the
silo, what food value it does contain
will be fully available. Even after all
growth ceases the crop is daily stor-
ing starch and sugar. Every day is
adding to its value as n feed, even
though no rain comes. While the i'm
mature crop is still green, it contains
too much juice to make good silage.
Let the crop go on ripening and Stor-
ing nutriment until at least half of the
leaves are dry. The properly matured
crop while still green requires no
water. Where stalk and leaf are shock
of water may be required per ton of
feed. To supply the water required
turn stream into the blower pipe.
This is important.
1.-The material must be packed solid
1y and uniformly in the silo in order
to fully exclude the air and prevent
large loses from mouldy silage. This
cannot be accomplished unless every
particle of material is damp. Where
larger cutters are used in putting up
dry crops, it may be necessary to run
them at less than full capacity in or
der to get enough water in the silage.
The last few feet should be filled with
green material if possible
and tramped and distributed more
carefully even than the tower part. A
layer of Shiny, moldy material will
form on top and this layer when once
formed should be let alone"