The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-10-10

tonsccd meal and hay reduced the
cost OF gain 500 a hundred pounds.
while .ho addition OF the silagc to
The same ration twice a daS reduced
the cost OF gain Sl5O q hundred
pounds.
Ia u series Of tests conducted by
stock EXPERTS of the middle west, n
was discovered that thirteen pounds
Of corn grain, without sildgc, were
required 10 produce "a pound of beef
while with the addition of silage to
Tho other ration. the amount OF corn
needed to produce q pound OF beet
was eat down nearly half. Further
experiments showed hat one acre of
corn put into the silo was about
EQUAL to two acres otherwise handled
According to an eight tcar test, the
sores which are required 10 produce
feed FOR u two year OLD steer Tor M
hundred and fifty days can be de-
creased up To 40 per cent by the use
Of silaec. In another case II was
shown that q carload OF twenty steers
could be finished Off with the crops
produced on twenty -four acres. with
the use of silagc. while II required
the crops of thirty-eight acres with
out silagc to produce the same re-
suits.
Isarl, History of Silngr.
Nv aNAh ~ H.. ~" ~ " ~
known. although the practice of bury
ing grain IN underground pits To save
u tor future use or 10 Keep NJ rom
the enemy, was common among
scmi-harhurous races. u is possible
that the idea of storing II In these
pits Was the result OF an accident due
to the people discovering hat grain
hidden thur from the enemy was
found 80 he Ia good condition after
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nod OF time. II was not until tho
middle OF the present century. how
ever. that amy very notable attempts
Were made to preserve q in tins
way on az eNtcnst," scale.
Tho earlier silos IN Europe we've
merely pits. or trenches dus In the
ground. into Witch the material wUH
put IN uniform layers aud troddon
down 40 that u would lie compactlN.
In some instances the floor and tho
sides OF the pits were puddlcd with
clay. and later the trenches were Gee
mcutcd.
When the modern silo STRUCTURE
which have replaced the underground
pit first began to bc built n Vus
thought necessary 10 make the wallis
OF tor and to cNgavatc so tina thu
siio would be partly hclo the level
OF the ground. II was not until com-
paratively recently that 1t dawncj
q pom the cNpcrimcntcrs that pressure
could hc sccurcd from the silage IT,
self " the structures were made sui
f'cientlN narrow and deep.
The fins, silo built In America ON
tho modern plan. ~ * claimed, was
erected IN 1876 by +. Morris OF MARY
Land. To John Gould of Aurora sta
ton. Ohio. belongs the distinction Of
having built in 1854 the first wooden
silo west OF the Allcghany mountains
The chief silo Centors OF the United
states were for some time to be found
IN the great dairy districts such as
New York, pcnnsylVauia. Wisconsin
and Illinois, hut later many were
built in the states farther est amt
during the past three years the south
west has rapidly come To The from
az a center for those structures which
are not only considered a valuable
asset 10 the farmer in times of peace
iut are deemed 10 DE important con-
serVati0n factors IN the program OF
h government during the present
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