The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-04

farmers the value of silos. With ev-
cry clear, dry day making more COM
plete the shattering of hopes for ears
of corn for many farmers. the next
best thing to do is to get as much as
possible out of the stalks, and the
way to do this is by using silos-
preserving the stalks in their juicy
greenness. Farmers who have silos
and whose cornfieldS give no promise
of grain are cutting the stalks, no
matter how small they may be, while
they are green, and are rushing the
fodder to the silos before the hot
winds dry it up. With silos the corn
stalks are valuable: without the SiloS
they are of little value. With many
farmers this year the only thing of
value they will have from their corn
will be the silage, and the farmer who
put his faith in corn and has no SilO
will have nothing.
So much Importance is being at
tached to the more general use of
silos that the Clay Center chautauqua,
now in session. has set apart all of
next Wednesday evening to the con-
sideration of information bearing on
silos. The lecture platform on that
evening will be used exclusively by
experts who have made study of
State Agricultural college will be on
hand. and the Rock Islands "Silage
Special with its exhibits and in
structors will be there.
The "Silage Special" sent out by
the Rock Island lines, is now touring
Kansas with the active cooperation
of the Kansas Agricultural college.
There must be something to this sill
age talk the Rock Island would
not be going to the expense of run
ming a special train and hiring a lot
of high priced experts to induce the
! farmers to build and use silos. But
the railroad company expects to get
the money back and more too, for it
ha efaa q
farmers are able to fatten, the more
steers will be shipped to market, and
the greater will be the company's
freight receipts. The railroads look
for their prosperity in the farmers
rosperity-hence the -Si1age Spe-
cial."
lot of exhibits are carried on this
train. They run all the way from
wood. metal and concrete, to just holes
in the ground, or pit siloS. OF course
no holes in the ground are being car
ried about on the train. but there are
models illustrating all the principles
of silo construction.
H. NJ. Cottrel, agricultural commits
sioner of the Rock Island Lines, is in
charge of the special which viii cover
Colorado. Kansas. Oklahoma. northern
Texas, the Panhandle and eastern New
Mexico.
This silage special will no doubt
prove to be the browning achievement
of Commissioner COttren, and that Is
saying a great DEAL because he has
run several very successful and popu-
lar instruction trains over the various
parts of the Rock Island Lines dur
ing the past few years.
Experts on the train will tell the
farmers in the territory contiguous to
the Rock Island Lines, What to Put
in the Silo," How to Fill the Silo."
and How to Feed Silage.'' Lectures
Will be given in coaches, and a string
of flatcars will carry exhibits of wood,
metal. concrete and pit silos. In Kan
sas the train will be conducted in CO.
operation with the Kansas Agricultural
college, and in Oklahoma Prof. T. NJ.
Jeffords and two lady experts will dem
onstrate the best methods of canning
vegetables and fruit The following
is a schedule of the silage special
while in Kansas:
Monday. August 4.
X a.