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Show , M SILAGE IS GOOD FOR SHEEP Will Be Found Most Beneficial Feed for Animals During Long Winter Season for Feeding. (By J. C. COL'HTEIO There has been great difference of opinion concerning tht value of silage as a sheep feed. In our opinion silage sil-age Is a good and safe feed for old and young sheep if It ts free from mold, and If It Is fed carefully. Moreover, the central western farmer will find silage a most beneficial food to tone up the digestive tract of bis sheep throughout the long winter season for feeding. Silage acts through the win ter much the same as grass does through the summer, keeping a bloom and a thrift en the .:!i?cp that ll hard to equal without It. Ijimba which are being fattened for market need less silage than the older ewes, and particular pains mutt be taken to keep only fresh, sweet silage for them. Cattle feeders find good sound silage a very excellent fattening fatten-ing feed In itself, but sheep will not handle as much straight silage as cattle. cat-tle. Lambs being fed for the market should be slow ly started on silage, giving giv-ing them only a taste during the first week. Gradually then for three more weeks the quantity should be Increased In-creased until they are getting all they will eat up nearly clean. All these rules can be changed somewhat, of course, yet they will serve as a reliable, practical guide, for they are the result of experience. However, any farmer feeding silage should remember: 1. Never feed moldy sllago. 2. Never food sllnge for a long time that Is noticeably sour. 3. Never start In heavily at first. 4. Never feed silage heavy in the grain one day and silage light in the grain the next. 5. Never allow silage to lay In the troughs from one feeding time to the other. 0. Never feed silage that is noticeably notice-ably frosted. 7. Never leave the salt box empty 8. Always watch the appetltea of the sheep, and If they seem tired of sllnge cut down on the ration until they grow eager for more. |
