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CORN 



ficiency of the Jersey over the other herds at the St. Louis test speaks 

 well for silage. Such constancy of milk flow was never before known. 



In Beef Production. 



In beef production the Ottawa Experiment Station found that in 

 fattening steers a gain of 1.33 pounds per day was obtained from the 

 rations of silage and straw, against a daily gain of 1.05 pounds on 

 roots and hay. The former was also cheaper. The Illinois Station 

 came to the conclusion in feeding calves intended for beef production, 

 that for equal areas fed, silage produced more rapid and economic 

 gains and left the animals in better thrift in the spring, than did 

 shocked corn. Silage when fed to fattening steers is thoroughly di- 

 gested. Shoats following animals thus fed gain but very little. In 

 the case of an epidemic of cholera silage is a valuable cattle feed. 



COMPOSITION AND FEEDING VALUE OF CORN SILAGE. 



Corn as used for silage purposes, necessarily contains a high per- 

 centage of water. A compilation of the analyses of the American feed- 

 ing stuffs, made by the various experiment station chemists, as given 

 in Bulletin No. 11 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, gives the 

 analyses of silage corn as follows : 



Silage Corn. 



From this table we see that the flint corn is highest in protein and 

 fat and that sweet corn is slightly better than the dent corn. These 

 relations remain the same among the flint, sweet and dent corns, when 

 the analysis is made of water-free substances, as shown in the follow- 

 ing table : 



Water-Free Silage Corn. 



Silage Compared with Hay. Jordan, in charge of the Maine Sta- 

 tion, compared silage made from the various kinds of corn with good 

 hay made mainly from timothy, for milk production. Four cows were 

 used in carrying out the experiment. They were first fed hay, then 

 hay and silage and then hay again. An equal amount of concentrates 



