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Lesson 5. — Making and Feeding of Silage. 



1. Value of silage in feeding. 



2. Kinds of silage. 



3. Filling 1;he silo. 



4. Feeding silage to cows. 



Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins : 292, Cost of 

 Filling Silos ; 578, Making and Feeding of Silage. 



Lesson 6. — The Dairy Barn. 



1. Location. 



2. Relation of size of barn to size of herd. 



3. Important requisites : 



(a) Ventilation. 

 (6) Sunlight. 



(c) Sanitation. 



(d) Comfort. 



(e) Convenience. 



4. Relation of cost to service. 



5. Types and plans. 



Special reference. — Individual plans furnished by Dairy Division, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. 



Lesson 7. — The Silo. 



1. Location. 



2. Types and materials. 



3. Construction. 



4. Relation of capacity to size of herd. 



Special reference: Farmers' Bulletin 589, Homemade Silos. Individual 

 plans from Dairy Division, U. S. Dept. Agr. 



CARE AND feeding OF BEEF CATTLE. 



(Five lessons.) ^ 



References. — 



The following Farmers' Bulletins: 183, Meat on the Farm; 580, Beef 

 Production in the South ; 635, Cottonseed Meal for Feeding Beef Cattle. 

 Fattening Cattle in Alabama, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Bui. 110. 



Lesson 1. — A Survey of Modem Beef Production. 



1. History of the beef -cattle industry. 



2. Present status of the industry. 



3. Beef making in the South. 



Lesson 2. — Care and Feeding of Young Stock. 



1. Handling of breeding stock. 



2. Care and development of young stock. 



3. Veal production. 



4. Baby beef. 



Lesson 3. — Sunwner Feeding. 



1. Pastures. 



2. Supplementary feeding. 



Lesson 4. Winter Feeding. 



X. The feed lot. 



2. Shelter. 



3. Feeds and feeding. 



