Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1916 — GUARDING AGAINST SHORTAGE OF FEED [ARTICLE]

GUARDING AGAINST SHORTAGE OF FEED

Big Item in Preparedness as Applied to a Live Stock Farm Found in Silo. Silos are effective fortifications against feed shortage, ravages of dry weather, hail storms, late spring, early frost, and poverty—suggests Prof. C. Larson of the South Dakota state college. He says: “Four silos are standing in one row on the north end of the state college dairy barn. A visitor to the college said ‘From a distance, those silos and barn appear like one of those ancient castles with its towers aid forts that we see over in the old country. In these days when there is so much war and preparedness talk in the air, there is some excuse for applying it to silos and dairy barns. “A big item in preparedness as applied to a live stock farm is to have a silo Just now seems to be the time when money is appropriated for preparedness. Why should not every fanner make an appropriation for preparedness in the'shape of a silo? A silo will pay for itself in two years, fatten the pocketbook, and add a lot of comfort to the cows and the feeder. Where is there another preparedness scheme that will do as well? If a person can’t afford one of the expen-

. f \ sive silos a cheap, but serviceable one can be built. "Dosnot let that anticipated bumper crop of corn stalks go to waste this fall. Remember that forty per cent of the food value of the corn plant is in the stalk. Put it into the silo. The farmer who does it will thank himself many times when the cold and stormy winter weather comes. If the cows could speak they, too, would say ‘Thank you!’ ”