MAKE A MEME View Large Image ... Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in ...
View Original:Image_from_page_8_of_"Concrete_stave_silos,_Brooks_patent;"_(1917).jpg (710x1392)
Download: Original    Medium    Small Thumb
Courtesy of:www.flickr.com More Like This
Keywords: bookid:concretestavesil00copl bookidconcretestavesil00copl bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:coply__john_samuel__1863___from_old_catalog_ bookauthorcoplyjohnsamuel1863fromoldcatalog booksubject:concrete_construction booksubjectconcreteconstruction booksubject:silage booksubjectsilage bookpublisher:_san_francisco__the_hicks_judd_company_ bookpublishersanfranciscothehicksjuddcompany bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:8 bookleafnumber8 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollectionbiodiversity bookcollection:fedlink bookcollectionfedlink bhl collection bhlcollection bhl consortium bhlconsortium monochrome text architecture bookid:concretestavesil00copl bookidconcretestavesil00copl bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:coply__john_samuel__1863___from_old_catalog_ bookauthorcoplyjohnsamuel1863fromoldcatalog booksubject:concrete_construction booksubjectconcreteconstruction booksubject:silage booksubjectsilage bookpublisher:_san_francisco__the_hicks_judd_company_ bookpublishersanfranciscothehicksjuddcompany bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:8 bookleafnumber8 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollectionbiodiversity bookcollection:fedlink bookcollectionfedlink bhl collection bhlcollection bhl consortium bhlconsortium monochrome text architecture bookid:concretestavesil00copl bookidconcretestavesil00copl bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:coply__john_samuel__1863___from_old_catalog_ bookauthorcoplyjohnsamuel1863fromoldcatalog booksubject:concrete_construction booksubjectconcreteconstruction booksubject:silage booksubjectsilage bookpublisher:_san_francisco__the_hicks_judd_company_ bookpublishersanfranciscothehicksjuddcompany bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:8 bookleafnumber8 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollectionbiodiversity bookcollection:fedlink bookcollectionfedlink bhl collection bhlcollection bhl consortium bhlconsortium monochrome text architecture bookid:concretestavesil00copl bookidconcretestavesil00copl bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:coply__john_samuel__1863___from_old_catalog_ bookauthorcoplyjohnsamuel1863fromoldcatalog booksubject:concrete_construction booksubjectconcreteconstruction booksubject:silage booksubjectsilage bookpublisher:_san_francisco__the_hicks_judd_company_ bookpublishersanfranciscothehicksjuddcompany bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:8 bookleafnumber8 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollectionbiodiversity bookcollection:fedlink bookcollectionfedlink bhl collection bhlcollection bhl consortium bhlconsortium monochrome text architecture bookid:concretestavesil00copl bookidconcretestavesil00copl bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:coply__john_samuel__1863___from_old_catalog_ bookauthorcoplyjohnsamuel1863fromoldcatalog booksubject:concrete_construction booksubjectconcreteconstruction booksubject:silage booksubjectsilage bookpublisher:_san_francisco__the_hicks_judd_company_ bookpublishersanfranciscothehicksjuddcompany bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:8 bookleafnumber8 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollectionbiodiversity bookcollection:fedlink bookcollectionfedlink bhl collection bhlcollection bhl consortium bhlconsortium monochrome text architecture Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: concretestavesil00copl Title: Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent; Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Coply, John Samuel, 1863- [from old catalog] Subjects: Concrete construction Silage Publisher: [San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, Cal.. the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave Silo. Text Appearing After Image: BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this crop.If run through a cutter and siloed as soon Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Terms of Use   Search of the Day