. Our farm and building book. . the way from10 to 30 tons per acre. The middlebetween these extremes would, be 20tons, which would make the cost of aton of silage corn 50 cents at cuttingtime. r . _ For the purpose of getting the fig-ures down within the reach of anygood farmer, we will call it 15 tonsper acre, or 30,000 pounds. Thiswould furnish feed for one steer for1,000 days, feeding at the rate of 30pounds per day. One thousand daysfeeding from a 15-ton crop would be 1cent per day. It is then necessary to addthe cost of cutting the corn and put-ting it into the silo, which is figuredat 64
. Our farm and building book. . the way from10 to 30 tons per acre. The middlebetween these extremes would, be 20tons, which would make the cost of aton of silage corn 50 cents at cuttingtime. r . _ For the purpose of getting the fig-ures down within the reach of anygood farmer, we will call it 15 tonsper acre, or 30,000 pounds. Thiswould furnish feed for one steer for1,000 days, feeding at the rate of 30pounds per day. One thousand daysfeeding from a 15-ton crop would be 1cent per day. It is then necessary to addthe cost of cutting the corn and put-ting it into the silo, which is figuredat 64 cents per ton, or a little lessthan 1 cent per day for 30 pounds ofsilage that the steer eats, thus mak-ing the total of, say, 2 cents per dayfor the silage ration for one steer. The silage ration will furnish two-thirds of the maintenance of the steer,the other third will be made up ofgrain and other roughage supplied byway of variety. Cost of Filling the SiloFiguring time of men at 15 centsan hour and the same for a pair of. horses, and $ for an engine, in-cluding the engineer, and gasoline at13 cents a gallon, by a s&ries of ex-tended experiments it cost an averageof 64 cents per ton to take corn fromthe field and run it through the chop-per and pack it into the silos. Thisaverage was taken from figures madeon the ground while examining thework on thirty-one farms. The cost varied on the differentfarms from 46 cents a ton to 86 centsa ton. The difference was accountedfor by long or short hauls and gen-eral convenience, but more particular-ly by having the working force prop-erly balanced, which really meansefficient head work. Some farmers actually paid a pre-mium of 100 per cent for poor man-agement. To Figure Silo Capacity for VariousSize Silos In a deep silo, it packs closer andweighs more to the cubic foot. Thereis an economical value in buildingdeep silos and there is no correspond-ing disadvantage. The same founda-tion and the same roof covers theadditional height
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