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Show FEEDING SILAGE WITH GRAIN Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station Sta-tion Asks Pertinent Question and Makes Comment on Replies. Purdue university (Indiana) agricultural agri-cultural experiment station submitted the following question among others to t,50() Indiana farmers and feeders: "When feeding silage, what kind of grain and roughage do you feed?" The agricultural station's comment on compilation of the replies received Is aa follows: "In answer to the abore question it was found that 90 per cent of the feeders using sorn silage depended , epon corn as the main part of the grain rotation. Ten per cent, are feeding either cottonseed or linseed meal In addition to other grain with silage. Tbla, according to the results secured at Purdue experiment station In the winter of 1908-07, would Indicate Indi-cate that the advantage of feeding a concentrated nitrogenous feed with a ration componed of corn and corn silage sil-age Is not generally appreciated as much as It should be. It waa found that the addition of cottonseed meal to such a ration resulted In an Increase In-crease In value of six cents per bushel bush-el on corn fed over and above the cost of concentrated feed. In other words. It proved to be a highly profitable Investment In-vestment to feed a limited amount of cottonseed meal with a ration com-poeed com-poeed of shelled corn, corn silage and clover. "In the purchase of commercial feeding feed-ing stuff the fat content Is of less Importance Im-portance than the protein cue tent. Protein Pro-tein la the necesssry ingredient for practically all farmers and dairymen to purchase. It la simply a matter of good business policy to be able to go Iota the market and select the most digestible protein for the least expenditure ex-penditure of money." |