FEEDS AND FEEDING II3I 



for food per gal. This low cost was attained in an advanced period of 

 lactation during a period of comparatively low daily production, and it 

 is probabh' due to the high feeding value of the food forming the base of 

 the ration and the small amount of concentrates. 



The analysis of the silage gave the following results : 



Moisture 61.31 



Albuminoids 4.75 



Indigestible Fibre 11.23 



Ash (Mineral matter) 3.28 



Volatile Acid (acetic) 0.45 



Non- volatile Acid (lactic) 0.78 



Digestible Fibre, Chlorophyll, etc 18.18 



Yearling store cattle were successful wintered on 40 lb. per head per 

 day of silage with only water in addition, and beef cattle did well when fed 

 similarly to the milking cows. On the basis of these results the writer be- 

 lieves that the silo, besides furnishing a large bulk of valuable food at a low 

 cost, offers the following advantages : 



i) The certainty of an abundant supply of forage. 



2) Complete suppression of weeds. 



3) The forage is put into the silo in June and Jul}", when the land 

 is generally dr>'- and the days are long. 



4) There is no risk of loss from frost as with roots. 



5) The soil is cleared early and then prepared for growing turnips 

 to be folded off; heavier soils may be sown with mustard for green manure 

 or to be fed off by sheep (" bastard fallow "). 



6) It allows of a great saving of labour as compared with roots. 



7) More stock can be kept on the farm than is possible with a crop 

 of roots; consequently more dung is available. 



It enables a high fertility to be maintained in the soil owing to phosphate 

 manure with slag, the accumulation of nitrogen through pulse-growing, 

 and a greater production of dung. 



The milk obtained for the London market was always considered as 

 of excellent quality and good flavour ; its fat content was, in January', from 

 3.90 to 3.95 % ; that of solids-not-fat from 8.81 to 8.86 %. 



881 - Experiments on the Digestibility of Various Little-used Cattle Foods. — Mor- 

 gan, BeGer, Ohlmer, Michalowski, in Die LandiLHytschaftlichcn Versuchs-Stationen, 

 Vol. 88, No. 3 and 4, pp. 243-290. Berlin, April 20, 1916. 



I. — Foods from the fruits of Phyfelephas. — These foods are sold in 

 (Termany under the form of a reddish and also a greyish product. According 

 to the statement of the firm which supplied them, the red food originates 

 from the nut of the Sudan, while the grey food comes from the fruits 

 " guayaquil ", " Carthagena ", " esmeralda ", " tumaco " and " ohnedo ". 

 The food was finely ground, but afterwards a coarser product in chips or 

 shavings, as sold by the factories, was used. The reddish food, and also 



