82 How to Make Creamery Butter on the Farm 



with less waste than corn or oats in the crib or hay in 

 the stack, if it is properly housed. It also keeps longer. 

 Furthermore, it is harvested when corn has reached 

 the most development. It is harvested when nature 

 can put no more into it. It is put away in its own 

 juice, when it is so soft that even the cob can be thor- 

 oughly masticated and thus digested. 



It is a notable fact that the cows eat silo food eagerly. 



Furthermore, silage corresponds more closely to the 

 nature of the cow itself. It is a bulk feed. The cows' 

 stomachs are made for grass. And what is the corn 

 plant but a great big grass? When it is cut up fine 

 for her in the form of silage, it makes the cow's winter 

 ration more like her summer grass. 



Whereas concentrated, condensed feeds contract the 

 stomach and bring about a radical readjustment in 

 the internal cow, silage feed meets the requirements 

 of nature itself. Moreover, concentrated feed can be 

 fed with great advantage when mixed with the bulkier 

 silage. Remember, there is absolutely no waste in 

 feeding silage. 



Again, there is no waste in harvesting silage, be- 

 cause the stalks, the blades, the grain, the cobs, the tas- 

 sels, are all utilized. It forms the best solution of 

 the feeding problem during the droughts and the short 

 pasture periods of summer. 



The farmer who has a few acres of corn in his silo 

 is safeguarded against drought. 



Right in this connection the writer might state that 

 from the ten acres of silo corn, above referred to, the 

 dairyman fed, from the first of November until the 

 grass came, thirty cows and fifteen head of fall calves. 

 And from the first of March, twenty head of year- 



