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Mr. Roberts asked about feeding this ration to a brood mare in 
place of hay and ]\Ir. Paul said : ''I will give you some of the history 
of silage as we have gone through it. You know it is good for 
dairy cattle, but never thought of it as making beef. Did it ever 
occur to you that if silage would keep a Holstein steer fat it would 
keep an Aberdeen Angus or a Hereford steer fat? Corn in the 
roasting ear stage is not good for a silo. There is just as much 
difference between corn silage made of green corn and ripe corn 
as there is between roasting ears and matured corn. Green corn 
put in the silo turns to vinegar and you want it ripe to put in 
the silo. If you have the corn matured you will have sweet silage 
and just as safe to feed any animal on the farm as bluegrass. Corn 
in the matured stage put in the silo will stop in the first stage of 
fermentation and it is absolutely safe. If com has been badly 
frozen, if you let it stand for several days and then put it in the 
silo it will make sweet silage, and you will get practically two-thirds 
value. ' ' 
Lee Hopper of Neola, Iowa, asked : ' ' In what manner do you feed 
hogs silage ? Do you scatter on the ground or feed in racks ? Our 
manner of feeding alfalfa is a regular hog rack." 
Mr. Paul: "We generally feed in troughs the same as we feed 
milk or if the ground is frozen we just throw it on the ground." 
Some one asked about the cost and Mr. Paul said: ''A hog will 
eat about four pounds a day. Figuring corn at the average price 
it would be about a mill a day or a tenth of a cent to feed silage 
to a hog. There is all the corn in that amount of silage that a hog 
will need but you might add to it by feeding a little protein feed 
the same as you would on bluegrass. It is not rich enough in the 
bone and muscle part of the feed and should have something in that 
line." 
In answer to a question as to how many pounds of silage it would 
take to make a pound of pork, Mr. Paul said that he had no idea 
about that. 
The question was asked if it should be wet as it was put in and 
Mr. Paul said : If it has been alowed to get quite dry we wet it. 
Just sprinkle it as it goes in. There are a great many details con- 
cerning a silo and nearly every man has read a good deal about corn 
silage but I have an idea that the point in nine out of every ten 
articles on the subject is to put a silo on your farm, and fill it with 
com. ' ' 
In answer to several other questions from different gentlemen 
Mr. Paul said: ''I would rather, from my own experience, have 
