Show Feeders Favor Silage for foi Cattle and Sheep Feeders reeders of beef cattle and sheep e hate ha even esen more reasons to build buill a silo and feed silage than the dairy men to experiment station re- re results results re results in nil all sections of the country country ct let et nearly all men dairymen fee fees silage while the of beef beet men and sheep men do not After the results result of all experimental data available a Prof r rB IB B l Morrison on director of th New York e experiment station finds that the crage a as a on on value alne of silage for 11 rv I CO cows s s one third that of good mired ml hay willie while the per acre yield of silage is four or the n e times greater greller thIn th in that of hay For beef cattle he tends silage worth half ne as much per ton ion as ns elO clover closer er hay and for sheep more than half a as much In an Ill average ll of 20 trials with sith two l old steers gain on silage Ih e fed cattie cost Sl Sd 2 22 cents lents a n le less s than on steers fed ferl no silage In I these tests a ton of sll ige replaced 27 pounds pound of concentrates and pounds of closer er hav or Morrison lorrison who has lias long Ion been considered one of the foremost feeding authorities of the countr rl fuels els cis that thai cattle and sheer sheet feeder like the dairymen men could get more money for theIr corn crop anti anil mal nal e greater profits on live Ilse II e stork stock bv by silage In one corn lorn belt hell state 78 is per rent of the Hie members of lairs herd herel associations own o silos sas ns as compared to 10 12 per cent of all nil the farmers of time the lie state |