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Show MnMHnaaMaMaMtHHaMMHMKl CATTLE ON CANNERY SILAGE Refuse from Corn and Psa Factories tacked and Fed With Hay Makes Profitable Returns. I havn followed the bushiest of f'-edlng cattle at canning factories for about Mii years with varying succens Sometimes the refuse from factories where corn and pens are put up (and then are the only ones to bo consld ered) In put Into silos and noiiietlm'S It la atacked I think the latter to be preferred, writes I'. Olliimre of IJv-Ingnion IJv-Ingnion roimiy. New York. In the llreeders' (Jazeite. The InteMtiiicnt Is lens and the tiliuge cun be loaded directly di-rectly onto the wagon or cart for distribution. dis-tribution. When stacked the refuse Is drawn onto the stack by hoise and r Shed for Feeding. cart, which tramps and packs It. The more this Is done the better. Fre-fluently Fre-fluently tho stack Is made In the form tif a loop so that the horse anil empty cart return over the same drive by which they entered. The outslilti of this stack soon wilts, heats and decays a little, forming an ' airtight mat, which preserves the stack as thoroughly as when put In ( silos. When feeding It out. It la cut down In sections with a broadax. , though the hay knife la used to some iitent. Native cattle carrying aome flesh are to be preferred. Where the 1 abject la to graze the following sum- 1 mer young rattle do not do as well, ' ire more enslly put out of condition, 1 become tucked up and gaunt, and ' when put on gra. have not the ra- . parity to eat and consume a sufficient irnount of grass to make gains. With them too much of the grar.lng season ' Is lost In recovering a normal condl- , tlon. The writer at one time had oc- . raslon to weigh the silage and found that a steer would eat as much as 100 pounds per day of this pea sllnge, but at the same time he was drinking no water. In A herd of 123 bend the j writer has seen several days pas without a footprint near the water ' supply. A small amount of hay Is fed In roimectloti wilh the silage, as Is shown by the hay shed, which Is a necessary part of the equipment. This hay shed hold from IS to 20 tons ar lias ample capacity for 12.1 head. ' About a year ago a writer In your j 'oluirns cited gilns mnde of nearly 100 pounds In eight weeks. No one "I'her In my experience or ohserva-:ion ohserva-:ion has made such gnlns, and our op- ' 'ortunltles have been exceptionally ' jood. The writer has weighed his attle off the pastures at the end of ' he grsilng season, shrunk them 3 ( er rent., and weighed them again at 1 he bt ginning of the grazing season ' ho following spring, and at the end ' if a .10 mile drive they showed a hiss ' if 3.p pounds per head, from which we 1 "onrlude that they lost some fl.-sh, ' tint grew enoi gh to about hold their ' 3wn. This was on pea silage. Corn oliige would have shown up some- ' what better. In any event they must !e wintered cheaply. The advantage ' if selection and buying In the fall la 1 in Important one. ' i |