Millard County Chronicle | 1913-10-02 | Page 3 | Effects of Silage on Milk

EFFECTS OF SILAGE ON MILK Flavor er Odor Is Not Inferior to That From Cow Given Dry Feed-Feed Feed-Feed After Milking. Contrary to the opinion fnrmrly held, the milk from sllage-fed cow I not Inferior In flavor or odor to tbe milk from cow fed dry fwd. The condensed milk companies which formerly for-merly did not favor milk from silace-fed silace-fed cows, are now sdvlslng their patrons to put up silo. lireat care should be taken, however, how-ever, to prevent the odor of silage from contaminating the freshly drawn milk, which take up odor very quickly. It Is be.it to feed the sllag sftrr milking and Just what will h eaten up clean at that fe-d The silos si-los should be shut off from the barn proper. Th Idea still held by some, that com silage will destroy the teeth tnd direstlve tract of the cow and Induce In-duce such diseases a tuberculosis, la erroneoua.