Show feadin feeding 1 fresh silage to dairy cow in fall with tile hie emphasis this fall on more nod arid better milk from the same number or fewer cows most dairymen cannot afford to let any green feed go to waste at silo llo filling time according to the animal husbandry department a at t the state college of agriculture at ithaca N Y I 1 when the silo Is filled and allow allowed ed to seal itself by the heating and fermenting of the top layer there Is an appreciable loss of feed if the sll sit Is filled early in tile the fall while there Is yet plenty of pasture or other green teed feed it may not be practicable to in avoid tills waste however Bo wever if the silo Is filled later when all the available green feed Is needed feeding from it should begin immediately when tills this Is done the labor and un of removing the surface layer Is avoided also alao for a number of years tile the m men in the department say the dairy cows at the college have been fed the green corn as it came from the machine when the silo is being filled and then fed the when it Is heating and settling so far us as la Is known no bad effects from this method have been noticed in the herd |