The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-08-18
OHIO COUNTY
4 FARMERS VISIT
Other Farming Sections
With Profit.
SEE BIG THINGS BEING DONE
In Cattle Raising-Woode
SiIo Appears To Be
Most Available.
A GREAT THING FOR FARMERS

On August I'd Farm Demonstra
tor w. w. Browder and some farm
ers. all of whom are contemplating
the building of silos and also inter-
ested in the growing Of alfalfa and
other modern farming, left Hartford
at 9 O'Clock in automobiles for Bowl
ing Green and other adjacent terri
tories. We stopped at Beaver Dam
and gathered up others, making a
crowd of SO. We left Beaver Dam
at $50 and arrived at Morgantown
at 1870, where We got our dinner
and Immediately proceeded to Bowl
ing Green.
When about one and a-half miles
from Bowling Green one car broke
down and had to wait for another
car to pull us in, SO we reached
Bowling Green at 3:15 and sent the
&broken car to the shop. We doubled
up in others and proceeded to the
farm OF M. o. Hughes, our district
farm agent, who took great pleasure
!. in showing us his magnificent farm.
Wrist we saw his 10 acres of fine al
falfa which had already made him
two tons of fine hay and was ready
to cut again. This field will be cut
! twice more this season. He then
y took us to his large cattle barn
where he feeds 800 head OF cattle
per year. 1t was here that we found
the open shed for cattle feeding OF
which we have read so much, and
|. find it very convenient. We also
= saw there the wood stave silo in It's
true sense. Seeing its weak points,
we soon decided that we should not
build this kind. We then went to
his clover field where we saw a plain
demonstration of what lime Will 40
for soil--decidedly in favor OF the
lime.
Mr.. Hughes then took those whose
car had broken down in his car and
we went to the State Normal farm
also managed by Mr.. Hughes. There
we found another large field OF red
clover and alfalfa mixed, and some
of the finest hay we ever saw. MT.
Hughes told us that this field had
already made four tons of hay to the
acre and would be cut again, ana
there was also a nice field OF sweet
clover there. We then returned to
the Mansard Hotel for the night.
The next morning we started out
about $3.50 and went about 10 miles
on the Louisville and Nashville pike
TO Will Gloss farm. There we found
three large concrete silos, beyond a
doubt the best to build, but little
expensive. Mr.. Gloss also feeds
!. about 400 head of cattle. we en-
loved looking at his fine barns. He
has things arranged very conve-
niently.
We then went to the place OF Mr.
! J. r.. Clancy & Sons, who have the
largest cattle barns in Kentucky
They have twelve hundred acres OF
land and feed six or seven hundred
! cattle per year. Here we bound 100
head of baby beeves almost ready
for market. These cattle would
weigh about 500 pounds each and
were about one year old. Mr.. Cha
ney purchased these cattle in Pan
handle. Texas, last November and
they have been in his feed barns
since.
II was on this farm that we hrst
found the homemade silo-simply
built out of rough green lumber. He
has three of these which hold 800
tons of silage each. After viewing
his nice cattle and inspecting his
barns and alfalfa fields. We went to
Mr.. c. A. Smiths place. After in
speeding his barns and homemade
silos, which we found to be of the
first-class, built of rough green lum-
Der. we became thoroughly convinc-
ed that this is the silo for us to build
for the present. being assured that
il can be built for 500 or less and
that the silage keeps perfectly. We
don't see any reason why We farm
ers in Ohio county should be with
out silos. as they viii pay large
per cent on the investment.
We found that these feeders. real
izing the value OF manure. keep theii
cattle in their barns during the en-
tire feeding season, making nun
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