. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. 18 CONCRETE SILOS "These figures are merely suggestive. In any particular case they must be applied with judgment, and other things must be taken into con- sideration. It would seem fair, however, to make the market value of corn less the cost of husking per bushel, the yield per acre in tons of silage, cost of siloing, and the quality of the silage, the determining factors in secur- ing the valuation of ;—From Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa. "Dairymen who h
. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. 18 CONCRETE SILOS "These figures are merely suggestive. In any particular case they must be applied with judgment, and other things must be taken into con- sideration. It would seem fair, however, to make the market value of corn less the cost of husking per bushel, the yield per acre in tons of silage, cost of siloing, and the quality of the silage, the determining factors in secur- ing the valuation of ;—From Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa. "Dairymen who have a supply of silage which will be available are most fortunate and have simplified the matter of feeding their cows suc- T, „.. cessfully through the summer. Sunburned pastures present no Summerm terrors for them. Experiments have proved that good corn silage is equal to green soiling crops for summer milk produc- tion and is much more conveniently fed to cows than are green soiling crops which have to be hauled from the ;—The Farmer, Saint Paul. "Feed bills which have been saved this winter through the use of the silo cannot be estimated. One correspondent declares that his new silo p , ' has practically paid for itself' this first year. Another says ItsetfyS °r 'the silo is the greatest money saving investment I ever made. I am going to build another this summer.' It is the same story all along the line—what they all say after a fair trial of the silo. There is no investment which pays better interest and dividends from the very start. A live stock farmer without a silo in these days is working under a serious handicap so far as economical profits are ;— The Farmer's Revieiv, Two Concrete Silos with Concrete Chutes built in Wisconsin with W. A. Limberg's patented molds. Polk Silo in Process of Construction in Missouri, showing method of operating Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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