The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-03-16
BUILD YOUR S|LO
THIS YEAR SURE
coTTRELL MAKES ANOTHER AP
PEAL TO FARMERS TO RAISE
LIVE STOCK.
COUNTRY IS VERY SHORT OF BEEF
More silcs Means Bigger Profits and
at the Same Tine Will Lower
Price Of Beef to the
Consumer
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This country is short OF beef There
was barely an adequate supply six
yeass ago There are fifteen and a
half million less beef cattle in the
United States now than there were six
years ago. and there has been a
marked increase in population. We
do not have enough beef 70 go around
and as a consequence the price is alb
normally high Stockmen decreased
their beef herds because with the
usual feed stuns there was more money
in selling their crops than in feeding
them.
In the past two years few beef
producers in most OF the feeding com
munities OF the west have been testing
silaee as q part Of the growing and
faitening rations and have found that
IL reduces By 0ne-half the amount OF
grain required ia tattening animals.
shortens the fattening period and im-
proves the quality of the beer They
also found thar silage materially lessen.
ed the cost of feeding growing ami
mails FASTENED their maturity and
greatly Increased the cattle carrying
capacity OF the farms The eeherai
use OF silage by the cattle growers Of
the west will enable feeders 10 raise
and fatten at a profit much larger
number OF beef cattle while at the
same time supplying beef more cheap.
ly 10 he consumer. Silage means sat
walton 70 both the beef maker and the
beef eater
For wears silage from corn has been
the only kind thar has given profitable
returns in feeding beef cattle. The
Kansas agricultural college has just
completed two years feeding tests that
demonstrate that silage from kafr and
sorghum is pound for pound equal 10
that from corn when the crops are
harvested at the right time stock
men have been cutting an three crops
al the same time. To make good silage
kahr and sorghum must be eut two or
three weeks later than corn the cnt-
ting TO be done when the seeds are
ripe. but while the stalks are nal of
sap
This discovery shows the way
whereby the plains OF ihe southwest
can become the beef producing center
OF America IN eastern Colorado
western Kansas. western oklahoma.
the Panhandle and an OF western
Texas either kahr OF sorghum pro
duoes as great tonnage per acre as
corn in the Mississippi valley and are
just as sure crops Milo. another sure
crop in dry land districts. win furnish
the grain to feed with the silage
Every farmer in the southwest
should build silo this season and get
the profits from IT, Most farmers
should Guild several siios The silo is
adapted TO every size OF farm anu
ranch and to every pookeihook The
silo viii be profitable TO every farmer
A. c Tinsley. Seihert. Colorado. dug
a round hole in ground ieei across
and IS feet deep lie made a silo by
plastering the earth walls with cement
that cost S505 Mr. Tmsleys profits
from feeding the silage from this silo
we're 500 more than when he led the
same amount Of feed dry n b John
son. Chickasha. Oklahoma, spent $500
for six large wood silos He fed the
silage in these TO 1850 steers that
were being fattened He made $4,000
more on these steers than he did on
the same number fattened without
silage BUILD A SlLO THIS SEA
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