Show CORN IS WORTH MORE AS SILAGE putting an acre of corn into the bilo ailo will increase its value as is roughage in the cattle fattening ration by about one third says R I 1 C tom of colorado state college experiment station one acre of 11 corn fed to cattle as dry fodder is worth while an acre of corn in the trench or apri upright lit silo is worth A cattle feeding demonstration completed at delta colorado a little more than a year ago showed that when silage was added to the ration it resulted in an increase in the daily gain a lead head and decrease in the cost of gains I 1 many ranchmen ranchman ranch men and farmers will dig new trench silos this year or refill old ones and thereby trade their labor for increased feeding value of the corn crop in times of drouth tom adds a trench silo enables a stockman to use all of his forage crops and tl tf turn dry forage and bodd fodder into palatable feed A trench silo enables a grower to save all or of his immature corn crop which would be of little value if it were allowed to d dry Y |