Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmer — John Shaqi
Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmerRoberts, James Russel
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Stock and stalks : $b A book for the dairy farmer
Roberts, James Russel
Dairying
On our farm we are equipping to produce certified milk. This will be
a new business for us. When we have had more experience along this
line we may write up the results for publication. However, none of our
experiments are far enough along now for us to be justified in giving
the results as final.
Those things which would probably be of greatest interest to farmers
are our small grain elevator, the layout of machinery to shell corn,
grind feed, cut and re-cut alfalfa and our facilities for handling
manure. We use electric power which, so far as we know, is the most
satisfactory power where it is available. The motor requires no firing
up as does a steam engine, and no tinkering such as goes with the use
of gasoline. The motors generally run when you want them to and as long
as you want them to and give very little trouble.
[Illustration: Showing arrangement of machinery. The conveyor to the
silage blower is just below the floor. Silage or cut hay drops from the
ensilage cutter to this conveyor. Opposite the ensilage cutter is the
feed grinder into which runs the grain spout from the corn sheller. The
ground feed also flows to the conveyor and by shifting the spout of the
corn sheller the shelled corn will go to the conveyor without being
ground.]
[Illustration: Rear view of the barn showing the arrangement of silos.
The blower pipe for the ensilage cutter will extend through the barn
and with a long arch swing around from one silo to another.]
Our ensilage cutter is permanently installed at one side of a driveway
in the barn. It will fill three silos without re-setting. By the use of
a re-cutting attachment with the ensilage cutter we make finely-chopped
alfalfa of all the stems that the cows will not eat. Cattle will eat
these stems after they are cut up fine and they make excellent feed
for our delivery horses. The blower (made by the American Harvester
Company of Minneapolis) which we use for elevating is separate from the
cutter. It is also used to elevate shelled corn, oats and ground feeds
to bins overhead. The conveyor to this blower is slightly below the
floor level so that ground feed will run from the feed grinder to the
conveyor, so also will our shelled corn, or oats that we are unloading
from wagons, and the re-cut alfalfa. Everything goes to the blower and
is distributed to different bins by turning the spout. An ordinary
ensilage cutter can be used as an elevator for grain just as well as
the separate blower that we use.
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