182 HOW TO FEED SILAGE. 



food. A poultry raiser writes as follows in Orange Judd 

 Farmer, concerning his experience in making and feed- 

 ing silage to fowls. Devices similar to that here de- 

 scribed have repeatedly been explained in the agricultural 

 press: "Clover and corn silage is one of the best winter 

 foods for poultry raisers. Let me tell you how to build 

 four silos for $1. Buy four coal-oil barrels at the drug 

 store, burn them out on the inside, and take the heads 

 out. Go to the clover field when the second crop of the 

 small June clover is in bloom, and cut one-half to three- 

 eighths of an inch in length, also one-half ton of sweet 

 corn, and run this through the feed cutter. Put into the 

 barrel a layer of clover, then a layer of corn. Having 

 done this, take a common building jack-screw and press 

 the silage down as firmly as possible. Then put on this 

 a very light sprinkling of pulverized charcoal, and keep 

 on putting in clover and corn until you get the barrel 

 as full as will admit of the cover being put back. After 

 your four barrel silos are filled, roll them out beside the 

 barn, and cover them with horse manure, allowing them 

 to remain 'there thirty days. Then put them away, cov- 

 ering with cut straw or hay. When the cold, chilling 

 winds of December come, open one of these 'poultrymen's 

 silos,' take about twenty pounds for one hundred hens, 

 add equal parts of potatoes, ground oats, and winter rye, 

 place same in a kettle and bring to a boiling state. Feed 

 warm in the morning and the result will be that you will 

 be enabled to market seven or eight dozen eggs per day 

 from one hundred hens through the winter, when eggs 

 bring good returns." 



Additional Testimony as to the Value 

 of Silage. 



Corn Silage compared with root crops. Root crops 

 are not grown to any large extent in this country, but 

 occasionally an old-country farmer is met with who grows 

 roots for his stock, because his father did so, and his 

 grandfather and great-grandfather before him. This is 



