Show USE ALFALFA HAY AND CORN SILAGE the average of a good many any e experiments peri perL ments conducted at the iowa station under the direct direction lon of prot prof john M eward evvard in which two year old cattle were fed for or a period of four to four conr mid and one half months good clean pure leguminous hoy bay of good quality such as alfalfa or red clover had bad two and one halt half times as much feeding value as aa good silage made from BO 50 bushel corn rutting putting it another way he be found that the silage shage was worth approximately 40 per cent as much as aa the leguminous hay bay per ton if the hay bay therefore Is worth 20 the silage would be valued at approximately 8 of course in years yeara of cheap corn relatively speaking the silage would have a value somewhat legs lees than that stated whereas in those years when corn was high priced the opposite condition would prevail this Is the case because when silage Is used in place of the leguminous hay bay the hay bay itself Is replaced as well as aa some corn grain send bend for bulletin no of the iowa station st at ames put out some years ago in which you will find a comparison between alfalfa hay bay and corn silage fed as per the conditions of the experiment outlined remember however that this Is 1 one of the many experiments from which the 40 per cent figure was deduced now clover and timothy mixed hay bay la is not nearly so good as a straight clover or alfalfa the latter two hayt hayi being practically equivalent in feeding value with a shade bade of difference in favor of the alfalfa because of its it higher protein content it if this mixed hay bay contains more than one third timothy feed it to your horses or stocker cattle rather thin than give it to the fattening animals because the fattening steers do hot biot take very kindly to the timothy portion it if the hay bay ts is t two wo thirds timothy and one third clover this probably will not figure out to be worth more than one halt half as aa much per ton as the pure clover hay bay la in the fattening of steers for instance the reason for the suggestion that mixed hay bay with a high percentage of timothy be fed to stock other than fattening steers or calves or lambs Is that they will pay a higher price tor for it |