Show no more useful feed than silage on oil farm silage Is one of the most useful feeds that is produced on the average farm the entire crop Is preserved with much less cost than from any pother other method in handling good clean silage that Is free from mold Is greatly relished by all classes of live stock with corn silage and alfalfa hay as the basal ration supplemented with linseed meal and corn experiments at tho the michigan state college experiment station as well as at other experiment stations have shown that considerable grain may be saved by inducing the calves to eat more silage and hay in the early part of the feeding period when starting on feed calves weighing to pounds will gain practically as fast for tile the farst two months with about six pounds of grain and all the silage they care to eat as if they are eating eight to ten pounds of grain and considerably less silage in fact calves fed six and one half to seven months gained almost as fast and were practically as fat when fed apar approximately oaf two thirds as much corn as other calves that ate from a self feeder the selling price was the same two years out of three |