Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-06-21
BUILD MORE S|LOS|
They Bring Sure and Profitable
Returns

If you haven't silo, why? That is the
vital question being asked the stock and
dairy farmers this month.
Wisconsin is the greatest silo state in the
union. Practically 10000 of these ''round
towers of prosperity adorn the farms of the
Badger state and bear eloquent testimony,
that Wisconsin farmers are out for conser-
walton of food and are trying to get maxi
mum returns from their land. The best
argument know of for the silo is that so
many of our best farmers in the state have
them. The College of Agriculture is get
ting out silo poster. 1t is hummer.
Look for it in your bank or post Office. If
you don't see it there keep your eyes
peeled along the road. You may see one
there soon. We want you to have a silo
because we believe in it. We believe in the
silo because we know from experience it is
the cheapest storage building on the farm.
We know also that we cannot utilize our
high priced land to better advantage than
by growing crop of corn to put into the
silo If corn is worth growing to save part
of the crop why is it not more valuable to
grow to save all of the crop?
If silo is a good building when corn
fails to mature for cribbing, why is it not
more valuable when you get good crop?
don't care if you feed corn to hogs. l
want you to, we need more pork. We also
need more beef and milk. Raise IS more
acres of corn and put it into the silo.
Where will you get the land? You already
have it devoted to hay perhaps. Use IS
acres of that hay land and get two and one
half to three times feed per acre. Work
did you say? Do you know of buster
season than haying? Postpone some of
that rush to silo filling time. Which would
you rather have? Canned fruit or dried
apples? What makes your COWS produce so
we'll on grass? Partly on account of the
chemical nature of the grass but largely
because the grass is succuIent or juicy.
Silage is succulent and the silo carries sum-
mer conditions into the winter makes your
COWS glad and makes them produce when
your time is cheaper and you can milk
more. Milk is higher priced then too.
If you are steer man you ought to have
a silo. In the past 10 years steer feeding
methods in the corn belt have been revolu-
tionized. Silage cheapens grains and steer
feeders have turned losses under old
method into profits by using silage to help
fatten and winter. Ask any steer man who
has used silage. Steer feeding has been
revived in Indiana where a few years ago
they couldn't afford to feed, but marketed
their corn; and silage has made the revival
possible. Write to me at Dodgeville. I'll
send you an article by John J. Lawler of
Chicago, the greatest individual cattle buy
er in the United States-a man who owns
and operates 10000 acres in Indiana. His
purchases on the Chicago market last year
Appropriated $500 weekly. Read what he
has to say about the silo.
know of only few classes of men who
have no need for a silo-the men who have
no live stock and the men who won't raise
corn. The men who raise corn and who
are in the live stock business should have
silos. You'll hear more next week. If you
are open to conviction and/are willing to go
and can go, I'd like to take you to some
men who have silos. Maybe next week I'll
tell you about some of our Wisconsin farm
ers who have silos. Sheboygan county has
about three thousand silos; Iowa county,
about 500.
Yours for more silos in Iowa county,
J. L. TORMEY.