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condensed milk factories do not allow their 

 patrons to feed silage if it is all right as a milk- 

 producing food. The Lansing, Mich., factory 

 does allow its patrons to feed silage, and has, 

 moreover, issued a pamphlet urging them to 

 use it and instructing them how to grow, han- 

 dle and feed silage. There is probably more 

 danger of the cows getting unsound food when 

 silage is fed than there is when dry food is used. 

 When we learn to make perfect silage, and use 

 proper care in feeding it, so that decay does not 

 commence before it is fed, I believe we shall 

 find the objections to it will gradually wear 

 away and in time disappear. 



Silage butter. I have made butter from 

 silage milk and had it scored by experts, and 

 none of them found anything to cause them to 

 think of silage. I have also had samples of 

 silage milk warmed to 110 deg. to 115 deg. 

 Fan. and examined for flavor daily for weeks, 

 and nothing found to cause us to think of the 

 silo; but we had reason to think of unclean 

 cans, the pig pen, the cow stable and various 

 other things which the milk had absorbed by 

 being exposed after milking. Milk exposed in 

 a silo in an open vessel will absorb from the 

 silage, so that any person acquainted with the 

 silo will know where it has been exposed. 



Planting for silage. I formerly planted 

 twenty to thirty quarts of corn per acr*j fur 



