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Show WHERE SILO DOES ITS BEST Most Profitable In Dairy Where It Furnishes Fur-nishes Cheap, Palatable Food With High Feeding Value. It Is In the dairy that the alio does Its best and most profitable work. It furnishes a cheap, palatable food with a high feeding value. Such a food produces a good flow of rich milk, which brings In the checks. Silage aa a milk producer compares favorably with concentrated foods. More cows can be kept on a given acreage where ensilage Is used than where land la used for pasture purposes or crop cured for hay or fodder. I believe about 35 pounds per day la about the right amount of ensilage for a dairy cow. Along with this six or seven pounds of ground grain, with what clover or alfalfa hay they will eat. should bo fed. The grain is oats, barley and bran, writes C. J. Gritting In an exchange. Cows should be milked and the milk removed from the stable before ensilage Is fed, so that It wilt not become tainted with the odor. After feeding the cows I gather us bits which have fallen In the alley and feed to the hens. They eat It well, and I believe it helps to take the place of green foods for summer. In order to keep the cows In flesh and keep up the milk flow during the winter months It la necessary to feed liberal liber-al y on the side. For this there Is nothing more satisfactory sat-isfactory than ensilage. Ensilage will keep better If fed from a small alio, so a deep layer can be removed from the top each day. For fattening rattle rat-tle ensilage is a very good food, but If fed too liberally will produce soft, red beef. One and one-half bushels dally la not too much for fattening ! cattle. |
