The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-06-05
''ock FARMERS MUST COME
TO USE OF su &c

s'lo' lts use by him is inavitabla
ne can't get away from it. Within
zen years this contention will ha rrov
en-, says T. A. Borman a prominen,
NEBRASKA stock farmer
Inc farm must carry more live
9'o'A' continued market grain grow.
ins Will bankrupt the farmer and his
SOL IN this as in other states Suc.
cess1ul growing of live stock necessi.
'a'es better feeding and greater econ |
ohy IN feeding In this the silo is
supreme.
Animal husbandry is the profitable
Side of farming. As land values in.
crease live stock must meet the de-
indhu Tor a greater revenue from the
SOIL. More live stock is an economy
IN the production of the worlds food
supply rapidly being forced upon us.
through live stock we market orr
products at home in the finished
piouucls' We cannot market our corn
Stalks and hay in distant cities. but
We can supply the world with meat
and stock products.
1--we stock husbandry gives us year
around employment, converting idle
tlme during the winter season into
profitable labor. We grow feed crops
Tor live stock which do not exhaust
the soils fertility as do grains for the
market. Cattle, horses. hogs and
sheep grow nights and Sundays every
day in the year.
Every portion of our state will grow
iced abundantly. A portion of the
state Will only occasionally grow
grains for market in profitable yields.
The harvesting and feeding and the
proper utilization of forage crops
must in certain sections maintain our
farmers.
The silo Is the one farm building
needed to successfully bring together
our feed crops and live stock and
complete a trio which will increase
our prosperity. The man who has a
silo admits it. His testimony should
be conclusive. Other states have found
the silo indispensable. Let us profit
by the experience of neighboring FARM
ers. To learn by our own experience
is unnecessarily expensive.
Within the last sixty days | have
traversed every part of the great STATE
OF Nebraska. In every state-and
this has not been an exceptional
growing season. there was a suffi-
cient quality of roughage to feed
well every hoof Of stock in sight. Yet
our stock are not in thrifty condition.
Cows are not giving milk as they
should and young stock are not grow
ing profitably. Yet, before the eyes
of every animal is an abundance
from the quantity standpoint. But the
quality is not in the feed. That APP
petizing, fat and making succu-
lence of the Indian corn stalk, the
sorghum and kaffir corn stalk, Is not
there.
The one constituent of our rough
feeds-the one which comes nearer
being worth more dollars than all
those remaining-we have failed to
save. This Is succulence That ap.
petizing condition of the June grass
that of the fresh, green, juicy corn
stalk-that condition which causes tht
animal to lay on fat in June Is not an
element OF the winter feed. It was
there. Our shortsightedness, our fail
ure to recognize 1t and take care of II
has caused us to store for winter
use, at the best, very poor feed.
The silo preserves this succulence
It preserves Indian corn, kaffir corn
sorghum, milo maize, for the cow, hol
sheep and horse, as does canning
, preserves the peach and all its juice
and palatability for the king, himself
: It makes a ton of roughage in the sill
, worth three tons outside the silo
[ Silage is appetizing-it creates appe
tite-the animal can't resist eating
, | The animal eats ordinary roughag'
from sheer necessity to keep bod.
, and soul together. Meat and milk
flesh and bone, grow from what Is az
tually eaten-not from what shoul'
be eaten.