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suits were secured from feeding corn silage. 

 It is cheap, the ewes like it, and they can 

 easily be kept in a healthy condition when it 

 forms part of the ration. The only danger 

 lies in the fact that it may contain too much 

 corn for breeding ewes." At the Michigan and 

 Cornell University stations silage has also been 

 fed with success. There is plenty of good evi- 

 dence in the agricultural press of the past ten 

 years demonstrating that corn silage is a 

 valuable succulent food for sheep. 



Swine.— Being the cheapest food available to 

 the corn-grower in the West, most of the hogs 

 shipped into the market have been raised and 

 fattened on corn as the only grain food. In the 

 past, however, pigs have been fed corn too ex- 

 clusively. Numerous experiments have shown 

 that better results are secured where some 

 other grain is fed, using corn, however, as the 

 principal food. Prof. Henry at the Wisconsin 

 experiment station has probably conducted the 

 most extensive feeding experiments on swine 

 extant. His work emphasizes the importance 

 of using other foods in connection with corn. 

 Brood sows should be fed lightly of this and 

 mainly with bran, shorts or some such food, be- 

 fore and at farrowing time, to get the best 

 results. Pigs fed corn exclusively lack the 

 strength of bone and desirable meat quality 

 that is possessed by those that receive in con- 



