Baxter Springs news., 1913-03-20
How to Do It.
How to REDUCE the Cost and In
crease the Profits Of Stock
raising With Less Labor.


consider when purchasing a silo
is, will it reduce the cost of pro-
duction of the various products
of my farm? Can Iproduce beef,
pork, horses, mules, mutton,
milk, butter, chickens and eggs
with less labor, in larger quanti-
ties and at less expense OF the
same land, with a silo, than
without a silo? By producing
the above cheaper, and in double
the quantity, on the same acre
age, will not these results find
their way back to the soil, build
ing up my farm to its highest
possible state of productiveness,
and advance its value in the real
estate market, from ten to thirty
dollars per acre?
Now if the use of a Silo on the
farm will do what no other meth
cd of farming has or will do,
then your answer to the question
is, / cannot afford to do without
a silo.
First. The silo assists the
farmer to reduce the cost of pro-
duction by changing his loss. to
gain, and enabling him to util-
lze what he is now losing and
what he cannot save in any other
way. No one of authority has or
will deny that there is at the
lowest estimate forty per cent OF
the feeding value of the corn crop
in the stalk and sixty per cent in
the ear. This forty cents ION the
dollar largely goes to waste in
the field and sixty cents on the
dollar is placed in the crib.
The corn stalk left in tn field
are never worth more than $1.OO
an acre. The same corn stalks in
silo are worth S14.0O an acre
when the corn is $21.00, or a
.-atio of two-fifts and three-fifths.
This is an average yield of ~
bushels per acre at so cents per
bushel.
The best results that can be
obtained from corn stalks in the
shock is twenty-five per cent OF
their feeding value, making 1t
necessary to have four times as
much in the shock as it would be
Necessary to have in the silo to
get the same results, and the
longer the stalks remain in the
shock the more they lose of their
feeding value, while those put in
the silo lose none of their nutri-
ton even though left there for a
period of years.
In fact, the difference between
corn stalks in the field or in the
shock, as compared with corn
silage for the feeding of stock on
the farm, is about the same as
oats or well-cooked oatmeal on
the breakfast table for the mem
oers of the household, or shelled
corn or well.cooked corn bread
for the same family on the dinner
table. Most any good housewife
can tell which the children relish
the more, and which is the more
wholesome diet, so any practical
farmer knows that dry corn
stalks, shredded corn fodder or
:orn fodder in the shock are not
to be compared with succulent
silage, perfectly preserved food
for all of the live stock on the
farm, from the chickens to the
draft horse.
Again, the stock gets the full
benefit of corn and stalks when
fed from the silo, and they cam
not get full benefit from either
corn or stalks when fed in the
usual way. This advantage in
favor of silage is because the sill
age is a thoroughly cooked food,
having gone through the first
two stages of digestion in the
silo, namely, heating and fer.
mentatiou, enabling the stock to
consume all parts of the plant,
from the ground to the tassle,
This is made possible from the
fact that the corn is placed in
the silo at the most favorable
time of its existence as a food,
when the grain and the stalk are