The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-03-22
STLO INCREASES PROFITS ON
CLEARWATER RANCH.

OfOHno hepuDllcan. The ReDubli-
can Is sure the silo Is the one best
proposition for Clearwater county.
"wednesday we had talk with Dan
Carr living on the Fords Creek bench
and the story he tells of his first years
experience with ensilage makes inter-
esting and valuable reading Mr.. Carr
put up two 00-t0n sil0s last fall, filling
them with well prepared corn ensilage
He cut the stalks into thin slices and
made a very good grade OF feed, he
now discovers Some of his corn, he
thinks, made as high as 15 tons per
acre, and 1t all yielded well, giving
him several times the feed per acre
that he ever had gotten from the same
area of land. He has now fed almost
five months, and has never had his
stock In such good condition.
Last winter he fattened and mar
keted a car Of beef fattened almost
solely on ensilage, and had the best
beef he has ever raised and produced
| IT at the lowest price per pound he
has ever produced beef on his farm.
During the winter and spring he
has had some % or 80 cows come fresh,
and whereas dry fed cows have always
given him more or less trouble about
cleaning, not one COW has had the
least bit Of trouble on an ensilage diet.
More than this ensilage has produced
more milk and cream with less ground
feed than he has heretofore fed In
fact Mr.. Cars milk cows have had
no grain, the ensilage and little dry
hay for roughage, being entirely suffi-
Gent. So well pleased is Mr.. Carr
with the results of his silo experiments
that he will build two more cotton silos
this summer, giving him 800 tons CO.
pacity, and regrets that he was SO long
waking up to realization of the value
of the sil0. His neighbors have also
seen the light, and several others will
get In line this year.
The Carr demonstration has had a
far-reaching influence, since several of
Mr.. Cars friends In the Weippe and
Fraser sections have been converted
and win erect silos this year.
Mr.. Carr says that as land values
increase the farmer must get more
feed from an acre Of land, and the silo
solves this problem. Here is the way
he expressed it.: 40 acres put into a
silo will produce more feed and better
feed than 200 acres handled In the old
way cut for dry feed"
"A silo for every farm" Is the slogan
that will win solid prosperity for our
farmers. Other states and other coun-
ties have made the demonstration and
proven the value of the silo. 1t is
the great mortgage litter, makes ten
blades of grass grow where only one
grew before. 1t will do as much for
Clearwater county farmers. Build
silo and begin making the farm pay.
@. Kalb, of Orofino, designed the Dan
Carr silos, which are pronounced
unique in construction, and so built as
to make them very durable. Mr.. Carr
Is so well pleased that he will con-
struct two more of the same design.
Mr.. Kalb, the designer, has applied
for a patent, and would be pleased to
discuss silos with interested farmers.
The Kalb silo is built of wood, two
one-inch walls, with a six-inch air
space between, and Is scientifically de-
signed. While the inner wall must be
of good material, the outer wall can
utilize the cheaper grades of lumber,
according TO Mr.. Carr, and for a good
silo cannot be excelled for this section.