Richfield Reaper | 1915-11-04 | Page 7 | Silage Increases Profits in Lambs

SILAGE INCREASES PROFITS IN LAMBS addition of shelled corn and clover hay reduced cost of gain at purdue the addition of corn silage to a ration of shelled corn and clover hay reduced the cost of gain on a lot of lambs fed at the purdue station 49 cents per hundred pounds it also slightly increased the selling value of the lambs and increased tile the profit 22 cents per lamb when the corn silage was added to the ration it was found that slightly less of the shelled corn was eaten and at the same time the rate of gain on the lambs was slightly decreased tife th e amount of hay consumed by tho the lambs also was reduced when silage was added pounds of the silage reducing the hay consumption pound daily per lamb without silage the ration of shelled corn and clover hay produced gain on proportionately the same quantity of grain as did the same ration with silage added considerable hay was saved however as it was found that pounds of silage reduced the quantity of clover hay consumed in making pounds of gain by pounds