204 INDIAN CORN OULTURE. 
Feeding it out.—The silage may be fed at 
any time. As already stated, some begin to 
feed as soon as the silo is filled. The feeding 
should be from the top if possible, so as to al- 
low no part an opportunity to decay. Where 
long, shallow silos, however, are used, the bet- 
ter way is to keep the top covered, excepting 
toward one end, and then to feed from the end, 
working off a vertical section to the floor from 
time to time. 
Corn silage has been found, as a result of 
large practice, to be a valuable food for cattle 
and sheep. Swine do not eat it to any appre- 
ciable extent, excepting for the grain it may 
contain. There is considerable diversity of 
opinion as to its value for horses. Mr. M. W. 
Dunham of Wayne, Ill., one of the greatest 
breeders and importers of horses in the United 
States, if not in the world, writes the author 
that after carefully testing it on a large scale 
as a food for horses, during two years, he finally 
discarded it as unfit for them. Others, how- 
ever, feed horses silage with satisfactory re- 
sults. It is important to remember that horses 
have comparatively small stomachs and should 
be fed lightly of this food, otherwise colic or 
bowel trouble is liable to occur. For a further 
consideration of silage as a food the reader is 
referred to Chapters XIT and XIII. 
