William A. Radford · Radford Architectural Company · leaf 12
cutting the corn and put-ting it into the silo, which is figuredat 64 cents per ton, or a little lessthan 1 cent per day for 30 pounds ofsilage that the steer eats, thus mak-ing the total of, say, 2 cents per dayfor the silage ration for one steer. The silage ration will furnish two-thirds of the… … horses, and $4.50 for an engine, in-cluding the engineer, and gasoline at13 cents a gallon, by a s&ries of ex-tended experiments it cost an averageof 64 cents per ton to take corn fromthe field and run it through the chop-per and pack it into the silos. Thisaverage was taken from figures madeon…
