THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART II. 67 



Mit. Trigg: Do I understand von to say, Mr. Kennedy, in your 

 paper, that the feeding of silage to beef animals was. a success? 



Professor Kennedy: So far very few results have been re- 

 ported but the reports show results to have been successful. It is 

 a new thing' and has not been reported on extensively. 



Member: Is the ration limited \ Supposing the average ration 

 of a dairy animal is thirty pounds, how much would you feed this 

 beef animal \ 



Professor Kennedy: Feed aboul twenty-five or thirty pounds. 

 The best way would be to feed a ration of silage and hay and grain. 

 The silage furnishing the succulent part of the ration. I have seen 

 a great many farmers feeding silage to fat cattle. They were not 

 conducting feed experiments, but won- pleased with results. It i- 

 a new thing, yet all the light we have on the subject shows it is a 

 good thing. 



Mr. Barney: Mr. Chairman, with regard to the res nits of feed- 

 ing cattle silage, I want to say that Professor Kennedy is abso- 

 lutely right in that respect. I have in the last five years used a 

 hand separator and nothing else. I bought the separator five 

 years ago and I think I have raised better calves in the last five 

 years than I did when I fed them a good portion of new milk and 

 the balance of the milk as it came from! the creamery. The milk 

 fed warm on the farm, I think, with oil meal or with a little corn 

 meal is fully equal to letting the calf run with the cow. In fact 

 I have just as good results as I ever had letting the calf run with 

 the cow. 



Mr. Trigg: Probably there are a good many young fellows here 

 in the audience who were raised on the bottle, yet, there is no doubt 

 but they have got as good a start as the fellows raised the other 

 way. 



Mr. Fox : There is one question I would like to ask, whether 

 an animal in a cold climate should have silage ? Has it a tendency 

 to make the animal more tender ? 



Proffessor Kennedy : ISTot necessarily so. I have heard a 

 great many people ask about the balanced ration. N~ow, I will say 

 in the cattle feeding business as in any other line of business, 



