32 SOILING CROPS AND THE SILO. 



live Stock. Or, as much may be cut at one time as 

 will suffice for two or three days' feeding, especially 

 when the crop is well advanced in growth, as then it 

 does not quickly wilt o\'ermuch, as it would at an 

 earlier period. A moderate amount of wilting 

 rather adds to the relish of the food, and it also les- 

 sens the danger from abundant feeding when the 

 green corn is first given to the animals. 



The portion fed once or twice a day, as the case 

 may be, will have to be drawn as frequently by horse 

 labor, except when it is fed in racks in a yard, or in 

 the stable mangers. In such instances enough may 

 be drawn at one time to suffice for two or even for 

 three days. But too much wilting must be guarded 

 against, else it will lessen the palatability of the corn. 

 Some form of truck with a platform not far from 

 the ground should be used in carting all kinds of 

 green food, in order to lessen muscular expenditure 

 in handling food with so much water in it. 



Where the facilities are suitable, there is no way 

 by which corn thus carted can be fed to live stock 

 with a less expenditure of labor than by feeding it 

 in a pasture. It is then thrown from the dray or 

 wagon and is consumed without any further labor 

 in handling the residue, or in carting the drop- 

 pings. But of course there is oftentimes con- 

 siderable loss in the manure. When corn or other 

 green food is thus fed, it should be dumped off in 

 small bunches not too near one another, so the 

 animals may consume it without being molested by 

 one another; and it should be strewn on a different 

 portion of the pasture every time it is fed, to insure 

 greater cleanliness in the feeding, also to secure a 



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