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drop considerably in milk toward spring, if fed on dry feed, 

 causing a loss of milk through the whole remaining portion of 

 the lactation period. If silage is fed there wlil be no such marked 

 decrease in the flow of milk before turning out to grass, and the 

 cows will be able to keep up well in milk until late in summer. 



Fig. 54. Silage Truck Designed for carting silage from the silo 

 to the feeding alley. Smooth rounded corners inside. Saves 

 time, labor and silage. 



The overhead carrier is also used to some extent for the same 

 purpose. 



or early in the fall, when they are dried up prior to calving. Silage 

 has a similar effect on the milk secretion as green fodder or 

 pasture, and if made from well-matured corn, is more like these 

 feeds than any other feed the farmer can produce. 



The feeding of silage to milch cows has sometimes been ob- 

 jected to when the milk was intended for the manufacture of 

 certain kinds of cheese, or of condensed milk, and there are in- 

 stances where such factories have enjoined their patrons from 

 feeding silage to their cows. When the latter is properly pre- 

 pared and properly fed, there can be no foundation whatever for 

 this injunction; it has been repeatedly demonstrated that Swiss 

 cheese of superior quality can be made from the milk of silage - 

 fed cows, and condensing factories whose patrons are feeding 

 silage have been able to manufacture a superior product. The 

 quality of the silage made during the first dozen years of silo 



