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each, and the number of cows the contents of each will 

 keep for 180 days with 40 pounds of feed a day. 



Filling the Silo. Corn has the largest amount of 

 food material in it when it is well matured, the sugar 

 'having then largely changed to starch. To cut corn 

 for silage when the kernels are well dented has been 

 found to produce the best results. Then the kernels 

 are just beginning to glaze and are firm and in their 

 best condition. If cut at an earlier stage, the sugar, 

 which is then present in large quantities, is the first to 

 be lost in the silage, and much food material is thus 

 wasted. 



Clover for silage is cut when just past full bloom, the 

 same time it is right for making into hay. 



The crop for silage must be cut in an ensilage cutter 

 into portions of a size convenient for feeding, usually 



