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confidence has been increasing from year to year, and I never was so 

 firmly fixed in the opinion that it is a necessity on the farm as I am now. 

 There is no better feed for producing perfectly sweet milk than silage 

 fed properly." 



Mr. C. T. Graves, Maitland, Mo., had charge of the Jerseys at 

 the World's Fair in 1904, and the excellent showing made there was 

 partly due to the superior corn silage that was fed. 



Redmond & Hurst, Tipton, Moniteau county. Mo., uses two "bin" 

 silos and says: "We are milking 50 cows in all stages of lactation, 10 

 of which are heifers with first calf, and our check for January cream 

 was $265.00; not so bad for winter. 



Cows giving milk should be fed from 30 to 40 pounds of silage a 

 day, half in the morning and half at night, or as much as they will eat 

 up dean every time. If a little is left in the manger take it out before 

 it spoils — ^and next time feed a little less. After the silage i*^ 

 cleaned up give as much alfalfa, clover or cow pea hay as the animal 

 will clean up readily. Mix the grain i part cottonseed meal to 6 parts 

 corn and cob meal ; or i part oil meal to 5 parts corn and cob meal ; or 

 I part bran to 3 parts corn and cob meal. Then give of this mixture 

 one pound for every three pounds of Inilk the cow is giving per day. 

 If the cow gives 6 pounds (3 quarts) of milk a day, feed 2 pounds of 

 grain; if 30 pounds (15 quarts), give 10 pounds grain, etc. Oats may 

 be substituted for the bran, or gluten meal for the oil meal. This will 

 give as nearly a balanced ration as need be attempted. 



To Beef Stock. — Corn or sorghum silage fed to beef cattle keeps 

 them in tone and enables them to make better use of other food consumed. 

 From 30 to 40 pounds per day will not be too much when once they 

 are gotten onto full feed. Several of our experiment stations, after 

 careful trials, recommend it highly. 



In the summary of Bulletin 73, Illinois Experiment Station, is found ; 

 "It requires a third longer to feed an acre of corn silage than an acre 

 of shock corn. * * * The silage-fed steers were in much better thrift and 

 flesh at the end of the experiment (88 days) than were the shock-fed 

 steers. * * * it should be noted that the silage-fed lot consumed less 

 feed than the shock-corn lot and less feed per pound of gain. The 

 amount of dry matter required to produce a pound of gain of meat, 

 when the corn was fed in the form of silage, was 6.52 pounds ; where 

 fed in the form of shock corn it was 8.57 pounds." 



Mr. J. M. Doughty, herdsman, Missouri Experiment Station, says: 

 "The Experiment Station becf-brceding herd is being kept through the 

 winter on silage and alfalfa without grain. Mature cows receive 25 to 



