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Feeding it out. — The silage may be fed at 

 any time. As already stated, some begin to 

 feed as soon as the silo is filled. The feeding 

 should be from the top if possible, so as to al- 

 low no part an oppertunity to decay. Where 

 long, shallow silos, however, are used, the bet- 

 ter way is to keep the top covered, excepting 

 toward one end, and then to feed from the end, 

 working off a vertical section to the floor from 

 time to time. 



Corn silage has been found, as a result of 

 large practice, to be a valuable food for cattle 

 and sheep. Swine do not eat it to any appre- 

 ciable extent, excepting for the grain it may 

 contain. There is considerable diversity of 

 opinion as to its value for horses. Mr. M. W". 

 Dunham of Wayne, 111., one of the greatest 

 breeders and importers of horses in the United 

 States, if not in the world, writes the author 

 that after carefully testing it on a large scale 

 as a food for horses, during two years, he finally 

 discarded it as unfit for them. Others, how- 

 ever, feed horses silage with satisfactory re- 

 sults. It is important to remember that horses 

 have comparatively small stomachs and should 

 be fed lightly of this food, otherwise colic or 

 bowel trouble is liable to occur. For a further 

 consideration of silage as a food the reader is 

 referred to Chapters XII and XTII. 



