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never heard of anyone figuring this way with any other class of animals. 

 Last fall I went to Geneseo, New York, the famous Genesee flats, and had 

 the pleasure of meeting Hon. James Wadsworth, member of Congress, who 

 has four thousand acres of that fine land and turns oflE five hundred head of 

 steers per year for export. He feeds silage and hay only through the winter, 

 making a gain of about one hundred pounds on an average during the 

 winter and fattens on blue grass, and sells in September. Last fall he sold 

 for $5.25 at home He never fed any corn. His silage was the husks from 

 the canning factory and just simply piled up. 



I also saw Mr. White, of Genesee county, N. Y., who feeds one hundred 

 and fifty calves during the winter, selling in July and August . He uses silage 

 from corn. Then I met Mr. H, C. Gardner, of Brockport, Monroe county, N. 

 Y., who fills his silo with alfalfa and feeds from it continually during the 

 summer, and is well pleased with the results. 



Then there is Mr. Humphrey Jones, of Washington Court House, Ohio, 

 who fed one hundred and seventy-eight head of steers with silage and grain, 

 and says he never made beef so cheaply. Others have fed beet pulp, which 

 is practically silage, starting low and running up to eighty pounds and run- 

 ning down to forty pounds toward the finish. They also report good 

 results. It is needless to state that I believe in the silo, and yet I would 

 recommend feeding about as I intend to do until convinced that its further 

 use is more profitable. 



We are now feeding fifty calves. They eat twelve to fifteen pounds each 

 of the husk silage from the canning factory, roughage being sweet corn fod- 

 der, grain feed at present being ten pounds corn, and cob, one and one-half 

 pounds gluten, and one pound of oilmeal. 



We also have forty-five yearling steers which get fifteen pounds of sor- 

 ghum, about fifty pounds of corn husk silage and two bushels of corn and 

 cob, and are doing fairly well. Now I am inclined to believe sorghum to be 

 the nearest like silage, and so the best substitute for silage of any dry feed, 

 and sweet corn fodder next. So I would say, use this roughage during the 

 winter, and in March or April open the silo and feed during the spring, 

 when most difficult to provide cheap good roughage, also to feed during 

 July and August, while pastures are short. 



The foregoing is more to create a discussion than for the information 

 contained therein. 



