Indian corn crop, for feeding farm animals is to make it into silage. 

 The greatest feeding value is secured by this method of preservation 

 and the cost of feeding the crop thereby reduced.* The silo furnishes 

 the most economical method of utilizing standard forage crops, like 

 Indian corn, sorghum varieties, Sudan grass, cereal grains, etc., for 

 feeding cattle and sheep. It also renders it possible to change 

 materials of minor or very little value for stock feeding, like many 

 of those described in this circular, into palatable feeds of considerable 

 feeding value. 



Cannery refuse furnishes large amounts of feed available at or 

 near canneries, mainly pea and corn canneries. It is ordinarily siloed 

 and used for feeding sheep, milch cows, or beef cattle. Pea cannery 

 refuse (pea vines) is also sometimes cured into hay and fed to stock as 

 such, with good results. 



Sugar beet tops and leaves are available in large quantities during 

 the late summer and fall in beet-growing sections, and are generally 

 fed in the field to cattle and sheep. On account of the large content 

 of oxalic acid in the leaves, they are preferably fed in limited amounts 

 only, along with some dry roughage. The best way to utilize this 

 by-product for stock feeding is to silo the tops and leaves after run- 

 ning them through a cutter. They may be siloed alone or mixed 

 with dry materials, like corn stalks, milo stalks, etc. They can also 

 be siloed by being buried in a trench in the field and covered with 

 straw and dirt, but the losses of nutrients are heavy in this case, 

 amounting from one-third to one-half. Silage made from beet tops 

 and leaves only has a rather offensive odor, but makes a palatable 

 stock feed. It is a standard feed for dairy and beef cattle in Euro- 

 pean beet-growing countries. 



Cull potatoes are of special value as a feed for fattening hogs; 

 they can also be fed to advantage to other classes of stock, to horses, 

 sheep, and milch cows, as a partial substitute for grain. Six 

 pounds of potatoes have a similar feeding value as one pound of 

 grain; if steamed and fed to hogs, they have been found equal to 

 about one-fourth their weight of grain. The latter method of prep- 

 aration is to be recommended in feeding potatoes to hogs. 



Potato tops can be utilized as roughage for stock after the leaves 

 have turned yellow. They should not be fed to stock while still green 

 as they may contain poisonous substances at that time, the same as 

 sprouted potatoes. If cut a few days before the potato harvest and 



* See Circular 138 and Bulletin 282, California Agricultural College. 



