The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-04-23
MAKE GOOD
FOR FARMERS
IN CURRY
County Now Has Forty in Use
and Many More of the Feed
Extenders Will Be Built this
Spring.
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Clovis. y. NJ. Ann 22.-Thc value
of the silo Ia the prmors OF eastern
Sew Mexico has nowhere been more
fully demonstrated than ia curry
county, whore forty of the feed eN-
tenders are now In use aud where
many more viii be built during the
spring ana summer of this year. Tho
silO IN this section has come 10 stay
The first fair test WAS given the
silo M this section of the country IN
1919, when two progressive farmers
took hold of II AS pioneers. They were
Claud NJ Steed and J. a. Wallace
Both made good. They proved that
the silu Is all right aud hat this par
ticular section Of the country offered
exceptional OPPORTUNITIES to turn the
silo into q mint for the farmer ana
D. stUckman. The Clovis Chamber
OF Commerce got Interested la the
"silo and the COW move and as a
result of the big "Silo Day la Clovis
In the summer of 1913. more nan
thirty silos were built In this county
within sixty days. Several others
have been completed since then and
II is estimated by "a member OF the
Clovis Chamber Of Commerce whO
has been oyor most OF the county the
past two weeks hat there will De an
additional 100 silOs put In. in this
county alone. this spring aud sum
mer.
W. ~ Doughton. who lives seven
miles southwest OF this city, and J.
-. Fleming, who lives three miles
southwest, are tvs farmer -stockmen
close by whose experience with the
silO last ear Is worth observing and
noting. MIR. Doughton claims that his
silo cashed In FOR him owe $1,000
last year. He built his silo just in
time To tax care OF his 1913 crop.
and he fed rs calves through this
siln OF l5O tons capacity. and sold
them, realizing a profit OF over SllOO.
Il figure h a J sold my crop, which
was grown ON eight acres and which
cost me very little to cultivate and
harvest. through my silo for over
$1,000 said MIR. Doughton. IN speak
ing OF the result with his rs calves
which he put to the ensilage feed last
winter. These calves were fed moth
Ing but the ensilage, and when they
were In good shape n had taken on
considerable weigh; he sold them
here at home, In small lunches, at a
profit of $40 round.
Mr.. Fleming fed forty head OF
calves which he got from the Shipley
Brothers herd, weighing them in last
fall late. and weighing them out ave
months later after having fed them
through the winter on ensilage, mixed
with cottonseed meal. with a gain of
$50 pounds average to each calf lie
was paid by Shipley Brothers eight
cents per pound for the weight put on
the calves, and SO Mr. Fleming made
$500. not counting the labor OF feed
ing and caring for the calves. Mr..
Fleming sold enough feed from his
place To pay FOR the cotton seed meal
which he fed with the ensilage. and
So he was not out one cent for feed
Of any kind. Every pound OF feed In
the silu was raised on his quarter
section Of LAND and he had stack after
stack of choice maize. kafnr and mil
let about the bnrnyaFd awaiting the
time when the silo should be empty
Mr.. Fleming also fed about fifty cows
ana calves of his own out OF this silo.
We cite the example OF the forty
calves which he iattened for the mar
ket TO show what can be done. yer
with the other fellows stock. with the
silO to take care OF the feed. These
Shipley calves We're shipped out To
Kansas city market late last week.
and II In said BY old stockmen who
saw them loaded that a liner bunch
of beef stun was never loaded on the
santa Fe Ear In Texas or New Mex
leo. Surely the silo has come tn stay.
Both the Doughton and Fleming
silos are built above ground. but the
great majority OF the sllos in the
county are built underground.