USING THE SILO. m 



Wlien I oommenced to produce certified milk 

 (pure milk) for infant feeding in Chicago I felt 

 that I must learn more about the influence of 

 ■ silage, as in the work that I had done butter 

 only had been considered, and in this new enter- 

 prise the whole milk was to be used as an article 

 of human food, used for children whose entire 

 diet would consist of milk. 



All the first winter that I shipped my certified 

 milk to Chicago I fed no silage to the cows that 

 produced the milk for the babies, but I fed one 

 stable of cows entirely on com silage as a coarse 

 fodder and brought to my residence daily 

 samples of the milk from the two stables, the 

 bottles being marked so that no one except my- 

 self could know one from the other. These 

 samples were examined at the breakfast table 

 by my wife and daughters and by myself several 

 times per week for four months. As a rule we 

 could tell no difference between them, but in- 

 variably when we did it was in favor of the 

 silage milk. This convinced me that silage was 

 the nearest to a perfect food for the dairy cows 

 that we have. 



Sound silage will never contaminate the milk 

 through the cows, although the milk may con- 

 tract or absorb the silage odor after it is drawn 

 from the cows if it is exposed to a silage atmos- 

 phere. This should not be done. Silage should 

 not be left in the mangers at milking time, nor 



