Show young calves made good gains on corn silage silage when fed to calves less than three or four months old produced good gains economically with no bad physical effects in a test made during the past winter at the iowa experiment st station atlon five jersey and four guernsey calves averaging at the start about fifty days of age were divided into three groups before the trial they received whole milk shim milk grain and aifala hay after being divided into groups they were continued for eight days on part whole milk and then changed wholly to skim shim milk A grain mixture consisting of three parts I 1 cornmeal three parts ground oats two parts bran and one part was hand band fed timothy hay bay salt and water was available at all times each group was fed silage for a 40 day period in addition to the re regular illar ration and then sliced roots replaced the silage for a 40 ilay day period still a third i 40 od day period was used la in wb which ic b the calves received only the timothy hay and grain ration slightly more than four pounds of corn silage a day was consumed by each calf during the sit silage age feeding period the cons consumption ump of sliced beets ran pounds per calf per day it was found that the silage or roots reduced the amount of hay eaten and that growth was as more rapid less other teed feed was required with the silage or roots and the gains were cheaper chen per no scouring due to silage feeding occurred |