Show SILAGE VALUABLE AS CATTLE FEED farmers usually regard silage as a dairy necessity but siw few of them realize how valuable it Is he when properly combined with other feeds in fattening steers indiana experiment nt station gave some borne interesting facts about silage in this connection as part of their international show exhibit they compared the economy and efficiency of a standard ration with and without silage the feed required to fatten a carload of 20 two year old steers amounted to 45 tons of cottonseed meal 43 tons of silage bushels of corn and five tons of clover hay the land required to crow this feed wai avas 15 acres of corn grain 54 acres of silage corn and two and a half acres of clover hay bay this wp was a total acreage of acres without silage it took 28 acres of farm grown feed made up of 19 acres ot of corn grain and nine acres of clover feed to make each pound of gain amounted to 50 56 pounds corn 13 pounds clover hay 13 pounds of cottonseed meal and pounds of s silage it age the profit was reckoned along alone with hogs following the steers for the car call lot using silage the profit was 39 and for the car lot fed no silage the profit was cottonseed meal increases the finish and selling value of steers while the tillage silage used in the ration cheapens cheap ebs the cost of production less land Is required to produce feed for a car lot of steers when silage Is fed |