Show salt hay flay and grass silage for best results farmers can improve cattle feeding by adding granulated salt to hay and gesas silage as it is stored away experiments peri ments show that salt brings out the flavor of the ration just at it does when the housewife adds it to the foods she cooks in addition it helps to preserve hay helps it to cure and tends to reduce the hazard of spontaneous combustion that has caused many a barn to burn down farmers using it now report that from 10 to 20 pounds ot of granulated salt per ton of hay gives the best results spread on as it ia being stacked in the mow used with green grass silage granulated salt not only makes it more palatable but helps to keep silage from spoiling from 10 to 15 pounds of salt per ton of greens spread as it is fed to the cutter will retard the chemical action and fermentation which cause silage to spoil salt sali used in this way often saves a crop grasses and legumes properly wilted need no preservation but rain frequently wets the grasses before they are dry with a high or undetermined moisture content salt is good insurance also since complete wilting reduces the carotene content of the silage so important in producing vitamin A in milk many farmers use salt which permits them to store the wet grasses thus preserving all its extra food value adding salt to feed is an easy way ot of making sure that farm animals get enough of this vita eral in their diet without sufficient salt their yield drops they lobe weight and in severe cases they weaken and die |