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Mr. Van Pelt : Yes, for almost any class of farm animals. To 

 work horses it should not be fed to such a large extent, of course. 

 For brood mares and brood sows it is good but should be fed in 

 more limited quantities. 



Mr. Carpenter: I would like to give my experience in regard 

 to feeding brood sows. "We built a silo of split fencing and lined 

 it inside and out with paper between both the inside and out. We 

 treated the inside of it with gasoline and gasoline tar, about one- 

 third gasoline and two-thirds gasoline tar, and put it on with &, 

 whitewash brush. We used that silo for seven years and at the 

 time I left the farm I took my knife and went down to the bottom 

 but it was so hard and glossy it would turn the edge of the knife. 

 I found that solution was helpful to my silo. I believe the splitting 

 of that fencing made it thin, leaving it only a half inch thick, 

 and it bent around to 2x4 very readily. I believe that silo stands 

 there today and it was built twenty years ago; it was very cheap, 

 never bulged and was altogether very satisfactory. I had a cow 

 by the name of Louise that we milked and weighed her milk in 

 June and the best she ever did was to give thirty pounds a day. 

 We experimented with that cow, fed her ensilage with a bal- 

 anced ration, and during the same period of lactation she gave 

 us 35 pounds of milk a day in January. I believe it is generally 

 conceded that ensilage is almost a perfect food for the production 

 of milk with the bovine mother. . When land is worth $100 an 

 acre we cannot afford to farm as we did when it was worth $10. 

 We must concentrate and the ensilage is the best food for winter 

 feeding, and I say this from actual experience. 



Mr. Baer : When refilling the silo, if there as some of the silage 

 left in the silo, would you advise removing that, or would it be 

 all right to fill on top of it ? 



Mr. Van Pelt: FiU right on top of what is left. That is one 

 thing about corn silage, once it is sealed over it is always good. Of 

 course the portion of silage on top rots, this may be six inches or 

 two or three feet. If it is well tramped in and weU packed down 

 there should not be over six to nine inches of the silage spoiled. 

 Then it is necessary, of course, to throw off that six or nine inches 

 of spoiled silage, but you can fill on top of the rest and it makes 

 as good silage as anything else. 



Member : Have you had any experience with stone silos 1 



Mr. Van Pelt: No personal experience but I believe stone 

 makes a very good silo. Of course after the stone is laid it is neces- 



