146 .SILAGE CROPS. 



Sorghum, like corn, contains an excess of carbohydrates 

 and is somewhat deficient in protein. Its value is in- 

 creased therefore by the addition of some leguminous crop 

 such as cow peas. 



Miscellaneous Silage Crops. In Northern Europe, 

 especially in England, and the Scandinavian countries, 

 meadow grass and after-math (rowen) are usually siloed; 

 in England, at the present time, largely in stacks. 



In districts near sugar beet factories, where sugar- 

 beet pulp can be obtained in large quantities and at a low 

 cost, stock raisers and dairymen have a most valuable 

 aid in preserving the pulp in the silo. As the pulp is 

 taken from the factory it contains about 90 per cent, of 

 water; it packs well in the silo, being heavy, finely divided 

 and homogeneous, and a more shallow silo can therefore 

 be safely used in making pulp silage than is required in 

 siloing corn, and especially clover and other crops of 

 similar character. If pulp is siloed with other fodder 

 crops, it is preferably placed uppermost, for the reason 

 stated. Beet tops and pulp are often siloed in alternate 

 layer in pits 3 to 4 feet deep, and covered with boards 

 and a layer of dirt. Beet pulp can also be successfully 

 placed in any modern deep silo, and is preferably siloed 

 in such silos as there will then be much smaller losses 

 of food materials than in case of shallow silos or trenches 

 in the field. 



Wheat, rye and oats have been siloed for summer feed- 

 ing with some success. A recent correspondent in Hoard's 

 Dairyman tells of sowing some 23 acres of rye and 9 acres 

 of wheat in the fall of 1907 and filling one silo with the 

 rye the following May and the other with wheat early in 

 June, just when they were headed out but before the grain 

 was actually formed. Several acres of oats and peas were 

 put into a third silo the first week in July. In cutting 

 the rye and wheat it was necessary to take the precaution 

 of cutting into short lengths and of carefully treading 

 and packing it in the silo, in order to insure its keeping 

 qualities. "It has kept very well until entirely consumed 



