THE SILO, SILAGE AND SOILING CROPS 



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DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN IMPORTANT 

 SILAGE CROPS 



Feedine Stnlf 



Com silage 



Clover 



Alfalfa 



Cowpea 



Soja Bean 



Fat 

 0.7 

 1.0 



1.9 

 0.9 

 1.3 



SOILING CROPS 



The production of green crops to supplement 

 summer pasture is more or less a necessity for the 

 highest success in dairying. The milk flow cannot 

 be maintained upon withered or dry pastures. The 

 winter feeding of dairy cows has been made a 

 success by the use of the silo. But ordinarily 

 silage is used up by the end of winter and none 

 is left for feed during the summer. Perhaps this 

 is better after all; a change in the feed of dairy 

 cows is as necessary as for ourselves. It is true 

 also that with spring come good, fresh pastures, 

 green, succulent and nutritious. Where is a better 

 place, then, for milch cows than in such a pasture 

 field? 



Summer feeding would be simple if the pastures 

 remained fresh and green until silage comes again. 

 We all know that with July and August come also 

 the hot winds and dry weather, and with them dry 

 pastures and marked decrease in milk flow. This 



