Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-03

~ RiVoSAN oIliPiy SCldtSIlnS
around Oh the surface OF things. A
thousand civilized men will thrive
where a hundred savagas starved. The
inner chambers Of Gods great granite
safes, where the oil and coal and the
iron, the nitrogen, the silver and the
gold have been stored since the morn
ing stars sang together, are fastened
with time locks set for the hour of
mans necessity. 1t is for us to get
the combination. One years exper-
ience-good or bad-proyes nothing
and little heed is given to the man
who m with the report Of one
years success or failure. If he comes
again in five years and says his theory
is working well-not a failure so far
you listen to him and advise him to
go ahead. When he returns at the
end Of seven or eight years with no
report of failure you conclude he may
have something of great value and
you look him and his theory up more
carefully. When he comes again at
the end Of ten years with constant
results, listen to his story. He has
possibly solved a great economic prob
lem. During the thirty years that
many of us have been in South Da-
kota she has proven herself true to
the stockman and wherever tried
she has been true to the dairyman.
| come to you this afternoon with a
plea for the silo, for | believe that it
Will solve some-yea many-of the f.
nancial and economic problems con-
fronting us [ believe that right
here within a few miles of the center
of the North American continent in
the valley of the Sioux or over in the
valley of the Jim or of the Missouri
or on the hills of the Coteau or in that
trans-Missouri country there can be
established a permanent industry that
will add fertility to an already fertile
soil, that will bring prosperity and
contentment to a dense population
and will work out on the trestle board
of life the plan of the great Architect
of the Universe.
l have had some experience and
have made observations but am not
going to inflict upon you my personal
views to the exclusion of others. l
am going to put witnesses OF the
stand to testify as to the reputation
of the silo-whether good or bad. In
doing SO will take men of intelligence
and standing in their respective com,
of the farm, mel who have made a
success Of their w business and
whose words carry weight. Whose
field of operation has been right in
our territory or in sections similarly
situated. In asking for these testi-
monials | said, Il am endeavoring to
present the matter in an authorita-
tive manner. What l want are facts
not faneies. l want Information
whether good or bad but first of all
reliable"
! will call to the stand Mr.. William
NJ. Smith, president of the Mitchell
National bank of Mitchell to testify.
He answers as follows:
Mitchell, S. D., May %, 1913.-Mr.
w. Parmley, Ipswich. S. D.-Dear
Sir: 1t affords me pleasure to reply
% your letter of the 21st inst, and
ell you what my experience has been
the use of the siIo.
I am satisfied they are one OF the
oest improvements a farmer can make
and l hope to see every farmer in
Suth Dakota have one or more silos.
have six silos on different farms and
lave used three of them for two years
have used ensilage in feeding stock
,attle and fattening steers.
On the farm rented to W. f. Clark I
awe a two hundred ton silo. The
irst year the corn was not quite SO
good and it took twenty-five acres of
to I'LL it. The second year the
corn al planted with a view to en-.
;ilage and about eighteen acres filled
he silo. The first year we wintered
,ne hundred head of cattle consisting
If y%earlings and two year olds and
about fifteen cows and heifers. We
ed 1t to cattle, hogs and horses, in
'act anything VIII eat it. From our
experience | can conservatiyels say
hat a two hundred ton siio will feed
one hundred head of cattle for one
hundred days all they will eat and
Keep them in first class condition. Ta1
estimate the value of this ensilageI
compared with the amount of hay itl
would take to Keep cattle that length
If time and at the prevailing price of
nay, you will readily see that ensilageI
IS worth $4,000 or more and it does
not cost any mpre to put UP eighteen
Or twenty acres of corn into a silo
than it does To cut the one hundred
and fifty tons Of hay that it will take
10 feed cattle the same length Of
time,
| do not know Of anything thatl#ill
pay better than to put up about fifteen
,r twenty acres Of corn into a silo and
set $4,000 out Of II.
Ny expeTiense in feeding ~fattening
cattle is fullyaaas good. Clifford Bros.
led cattle on DIE OF my farms. They
nave two silos, They did not com
lnence feedtni until early IN the
spring and fedhhe cattle for June and
July market. The cattle could noti
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