Show L J tT 1 r Cost o s an and Value au e I 0 of Corn Silage c Conclusively Proven That Product in Ration Makes Big Saving must know the cost f Of ot their feeds In order to determine j the best and most economical rations for this reason It Is necessary to Investigate In In- I the cost test of making writes A. A I. I L L. L Haecker In the Iowa t Homestead The Missouri Agricultural Agricultural I tural rural college last year ear showed a u cost of ot 5 00 per ton for corn silage e. e The They based tills this on the bushel yield crediting crediting credit credit- j ing the corn with 94 04 4 cents per bushel and charging actual costs which were liberal on nil all items and above e the thea r ra g a now now paid a ai Ii ce i I i During Durin the the past 25 5 years many any of or our oar experiment stations I ha e published pub fished figures on cost of producing j silage but as conditions have luI radically radi rodl radically cally rally changed In costs these f figures ures are of little value at the tIle present time t j i It jt is hoped that new figures on this I subject mn may be secured this year ear and j 1 that special care will be taken to give ghe Ire data produced on average a farms j I Ways of Figuring i There are two principal ways S 'S of 1 1 fi figuring cost One is bas based ed on the i yield of corn corn which is the most cornI come corn corn- e I mon and I believe belie the least reliable i 1 the other Is based on land rental and anel actual cost of growing and har harvesting esting the crop crol Thirty per lIer cent of last J years year's corn that went Into the silo j I would not have ho made marl marketable E I EI i grain due to the fact that it lacked I j maturity Frequently a field of corn cornat corni 1 i at time Is so I damaged b by y r i hot winds that this silk is dried or burned and the corn will fail to ear j Such a n crop wIll t still make silage though It Is a total failure as a grain i i crop Where the basis Is ma made e on onI I land rental and all costs a more uc- uc nc- nc cur curate te accounting can be made Under present day conditions It Is safe to conclude that sIla silage e can be 1 made where all ll costs are arc considered I for from 5 5 to 6 per ton The following following following fol- fol lowing figures may moy be used to determine determine de de- de- de termine the worth of silage e under j If 4 c good farm conditions When hen butter butterfat t fat Is sellin selling for 43 95 cents per pound corn silage will bring the dalr dairy farmer I 10 per ton and when fat steers are selling for S SO 0 to 10 per hundredweight hundredweight hundred hundred- I weight corn sila silage e is worth from 7 i ito to 8 S per ton Then a farmer with a asilo asilo asilo silo and a fair air yield of crop can ref re- re f J cele a value from his corn made into l I silage e of 70 iO to 80 an un acre when I fed to steers and when fed to toI tol I II I l good dair dairy cows 1 Makes Makes intakes Big Saving I It has lias been conclusively proven pro that I silage in the ration makes a 11 savin saving I of considerable mone money With dairy J i f animals the feeding of silage saves from 8 to 15 cents on the cost of producing producing pro pro- producing a pound of butter and anO from 30 to GO 50 cents on producing pounds of milk For beef production or fattening of of animals the saving produced by silage e Is about 1 per pounds gain When we consider the growing of young oung stock the feeding feed feed- I iri lug ing of dr dry cows and heifers the wintering wintering win win- I of work horses and mules the ther i r silo farm becomes a necessity on the stock r |