2 1 o Ensilage. 



PALATABILITY. 



Then comes the question of palatability. A piece 

 of fat pork may furnish more nutriment to a person 

 than a whole loaf of bread ; but if the person dislikes 

 the one and enjoys the other, what comfort or bene- 

 fit is that person to get from a chemical analysis? 

 When a cow leaves hay to eat ensilage, and hungers 

 for it, what good is it to the cow, or to the owner 

 either, to know that the hay contains the greater 

 feeding value? This is another point that is invari- 

 ably lost sight of at experimental stations. If a 

 cow eats cured stalks simply to satisfy hunger, and 

 has a relish for ensilage in quantities controlled only 

 by her capacity, it is not a question of albuminoids, 

 carbohydrates, and fats, but of dollars and cents to 

 the owner. " Allowing the cows to eat as much as 

 they wanted of corn silage and fodder corn with the 

 same ration of hay, bran, and oats, they were able 

 to give more milk daily, which contained more fat 

 on the ensilage than on the fodder corn, while the 

 quantity of butter produced on the ensilage feed 

 was more than on the fodder-corn feed." At the 

 same time the cows invariably consumed less dry 

 matter when on fodder than when on ensilage. 



ENSILAGE vs. HAY. 



The advantages of winter soiling over the feeding 

 of cured hay and cornstalks may be summed up un- 

 der the following heads, but as these points have 



