The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-22
BUILD AND FILL A sILO THIS SUMNER!

BUILD AND FILL A SILO THIS SUMMER!
A smaller per cent. of the grain crop will be
available for feeding dairy cows this winter than
usual, because more of the crop will he consumed
as human food at home and by the allied nations
and armies in Europe.
Little if any of the manufactured and by-pro-
duct feeds of the North will be shipped South as
the surplus will be needed elsewhere, so it is high
time for the Mississippi dairy farmer to figure
how he can best carry his herd through the winter
on the least grain feed. The milk production must
be maintained. Good milk is one of our cheapest
most wholesome articles of human food. The cry
ing need of the world today is oils and fats, and
butter fat is one of the most essential.
! To keep the milk flow up the silo will render
valuable service. Less grain can be fed by many
dairy farmers, without reducing the milk prcduc-
ton, provided they feed more silage and legume
hay. Succulency is just as important for the dairy
COW in the winter as it is in the summer, and a silo
filled with good silage will give the dairy herd June
conditions in January. Experiments in Missis-
sippi have proven the value Of eilage both as an
economic and a productive feed. Some eight
years ago silage and cottonseed meal were fed in
comparison with %cottonsed hulls and cottonseed
meal. The silage meal produced approximately
Sc percent more milk than did the hulls and meal
and the dairy ration of silage and meal cost ap-
proximately "a per cent. less. Can any dairy
farmer afford to go through the coming winter
without a silo well filled with good silage?
Especially when we consider the enormous price
he will have to pay for bought feeds. |
"The silo at all times, and particularly now,
offers to the farmers one of the best means of
reducing his feed bill. Then it behoves the dairy
farmers who haven't silos to get busy and build
Immediately and fill these silos before frost.
lone made silos of concrete or wood can be built
on the farm of local material at a very small cost.
Any kind of cheap silo, that will keep feed is
better than none at all. Call on the Extension De-
partment Of your A. and M. College for any Ed
~ucational service you may need in getting a silo
erected.
Build a silo Immediately; you can't afford to
put it off,. A. Higgins, Agricultural College,
Mississippi.
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A GOVERNOR MADE OF THE RIGHT SORT OF
STUFF.
When the Illinois coal operators undertook to
get rich quick at the expense of a suffering public
they neglected to take into account the possible
action of one lone man-Governor Frank O. Low
den.
Or possibly they assumed that because Gov
ernor Lowden is himself a millionaire he would
naturally throw the weight of his powerful in
fuence in behalf Of other millionaires, at the ex-
pense of an already price ridden people.
But they erred, grievously so-for them.
Lowden calmly surveyed the field, decided what
was best for the people as a whole, and delivered
his ultimatum in words of unmistakable meaning.
The coal barons must reduce prices to normal, or
he (the g~overnor) would direct the Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the state to seize the mines and operate
them for the benefit of the commonwealth until
the close of the war. .
No bluff, no blow, just cold, steely action-and
the coal pirates capitulated in frantic haste.
Illinois will get cheaper coal, and as a direct out
come of the Lowden method other states and other
governors will know how to bring their own price
boosters to their knees.
This country needs more Lowdens, as it has
never needed them before. They are needed in
every state, for every line of industry. Wherever
a commodity is produced, the price booster and
speculative robber is there and ready to wiring the
last dollar from a bleeding public. And without
officials OF the LoWen stamp to curb them they will
succeed in their nefarious robber schemes.
Appealing to their fair-mindednes and pa
triotism is futile. Only an iron fist can make a
dent in them.
But Lowden had the fist, and the will to WELD
it-and we need more Governors made of the
material Of which he is built.
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THE ALLIED AIR FLEETS.
:. 1t is scarcely to be denied that the allied air
fleets immeasureably outnumber and outgeneral
the Teutonic fleets. Prior to the war-or at it's
beginning-the world stood aghast at the Zep-
pelins. But three years Of air warfare has re-
legated the "Zeps" to the background, and the
mastery Of the kingdom of the clouds now depends
solely upon the heavier than air machines, which
the allies are turning out at least twice as fast
as the Germans are.