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The silo, practically, is a substitute for pasturage so far as the 

 succulence of the foot! and (juick digestibility is concerned, 

 without its expense. Every year in Wisconsin witnesses the 

 increase of those who believe and practice a partial soiling at 

 least, and they do it through the silo. Now if it is of the high- 

 est economy for us to own no waste land, or land which yields 

 a low return ; if it is of the highest economy for us to get the 

 largest return possible for the value of the food consumed; if 

 it is of the highest econoujy for us to put our land in the most 

 effective shape possible for the use of our animals, does not the 

 same economy appeal to you as powerful as it docs to us ?" 



The New York Geneva expeiiment station has found corn 

 silage the best for milch cows. They say that after suveial ex- 

 periments it was found to increase the milk How and at the 

 same time to increase the amount of butter fat. 



At the relative prices ordinarily holding for dili'erent foods, 

 milk was generally produced at lower cost, and the cost of fat 

 production was lower when corn silage constituted part of the 

 ration than when many other rations were fed. 



Another eminent authority says : — Silage may be fed with 

 advantage to all classes of farm animals, milch cows, steers 

 horses, mules, sheep swine, and even poultry. Neither does 

 this enumeration finish the list of animals that take readily to 

 silage. Kuhn states that not only did the various European 

 breeds of cattle in the herd of the Agricultural College of Halle 

 (Germany) eat corn silage with a relish, but this was also the 

 case with the long-horned Sanga, directly imported from 

 Africa ; t.ie Yak, a native of the plains of Central Asia ; and 

 the ciosses of Yak and Gayal. The coin silage was also eaten 

 by all of the common breeds of sheep, and by the Asiatic and 

 African breeds; the fine-wooled Electoral, Negrettis, and 

 Rambouillet, especially, took to it kindly. The Mouflon 



