540 



STATE BOAM) OP AGRIICUJjTURE. 



Fig. 28. The new barn and the old. The County Agricultural Agent aided in the planning 

 of the barn, through an agricultural meeting held in that neighborhood. 



for the expense of erecting a silo, root crops should be grown. Kuta- 

 bagas and mangels are the best crops for this purpose. 



Silage is the cheapest and most easily handled of all succulent 

 feeds. Sunflowers are rapidly taking first place as a silage crop, in 

 parts of the Upper Peninsula, where corn cannot be grown success- 

 fully. Peas and oats, and clover make good silage but are more expen- 

 sive than sunflowers. Sunflower silage has been fed with success at 

 the Chatham Sub-Station, and on different farms of the Upper Peninsula 

 during the pant three years. Nearly all northern experiment stations 

 are reporting favorably on this feed. The proper time for cutting sun- 

 flowers has been given under ''Sunflowers." Page 519. 



TABLE 28 THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSES BETWEEN CORN AND 



SUNFLOWER SILAGE*. 



♦Analysis by Prof. A. J. Patten, Chemical Section. 



