Show Silo Will Preserve ve olA Whole of Any Any- Crop Various Plants Combine Well With Alfalfa The silo preserves the whole crop stalks and all In best form for feedIng feeding feeding feed- feed Ing whether corn sorghum or so that hardly any of ot the food value of the plant Is lost The Colorado do experIment experiment ex ex- station found that when corn corn was kept In large shocks 31 per cent of dry matter was lost when kept In small sh shocks 43 per cent of the dry matter was lost and when left on the ground 55 per cent of ot the dry ru matter was lost With the silo much of ot this Is saved and the stock will not waste the stalks as they do In dry curing The curing of hay huy Is largely hugely dependent depend depend- ent on weather conditions but silage crops can be put Into the silo when wet and will euro cure regardless of ot weather No stalks s remain In the way way was o of farm Implements and none are left In feed racks and mangers to be thrown out and und wasted Silage whether from corn cane or sunflowers combines well with alfalfa hay which Is a 11 staple crop In this state Alfalfa contains the protein needed to balance the silage while the silage supplies lence Straw can be fed Ced to better advantage advantage ad ad- vantage with silage than In any other way The silage will give better results results re re- suits when fed with a little dry roughage roughage roughage rough rough- age than when fed alone Charles Charles L Bray Colorado Agricultural College |