The St. Charles Herald

The silo offers the best means of conserving the farm feed supply. It enables the farmer to save the feedstuffs for the future use of his farm animals in much the same manner that the canning machine enables the housewife to save the vegetables and fruits for the future use of the family. The present and prospective high prices and the growing demand for farm products of all kinds make it at once to the profit and the duty of farmers to increase in every way the efficiency of their operations. To the dairy farmer, at least, the silo is essential to efficiency.
Its advantages are too numerous to fully enumerate here. Suffice it to say that experiments have proved that silage will greatly reduce the cost of feed for dairy cows and increase the milk production. It is a palatable feed, keeps the stock in a thrifty condition, and the young stock growing all winter. It is more conveniently fed than hay or corn fodder. Silage enables one to keep a larger number of live stock on a given area of land than may be kept on forage crops cut for hay. It furnishes succulent feed during the summer when drouths frequently occur. It prevents the waste of corn cobs, stalks and overripe fodder that would otherwise not be eaten by the animals.
If you contemplate building a silo, write to the Extension Division of the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, for complete information, which will be furnished free of charge.