Show Make Good Silage From Different Legume Crops Some farmers have reported excellent excellent excel excel- lent results In making silage from alfalfa al aI- al- al I alfa falfa clover and other legumes while others report that their legume silage was so poor the cows ws would not eat It it The great extremes In the results as to the of or legUme legume le Ie- le- le gume silage led Professor Eckles to Investigate this question He found foum that the difference In quality was apparently ap ap- ap due to ItO the amount of water in these legu legumes es when ensUed ensiled For two years ears ears they had llad made good alfalfa silage ge at the Missouri station but the next two years the silage was cally caily Worthless In going over o this ex ex- penance It was wa'S noted that the first firs two ye years s were dry years and the analysis of the alfalfa when ensiled ensued showed a high percentage of dry ry matter mat mat- ter The next two years were we wet and anti the those se years ears analysis years Showed that the dry matter content conten was wa considerably less Jess at the time the I green alfalfa was ensiled ensued Farther r In In- showed that If It alfalfa were made imade Into Ilage when green and succulent as It Is at the usual time of jf making hay It contains about 20 i poU pounds of dry Ury matter to the hun bun tIred Gred and antI under these conditions would not m make ke good silage If 1 It were were drier drier and more and more mature and con con- tamed approximately 40 pounds o odry ot of dry matter to the hundred then 1 It Im kes good silage |