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to feed the silage and other fodder separately. 

 This at least would sometimes be true. In such 

 instances, the meal should be fed with the other 

 fodder to induce a greater consumption of the 

 same. Silage is more appetizing as a rule than 

 other cut food, especially when the latter is fed in 

 the dry form, hence it will usually be eaten with 

 avidity without being admixed with meal. This is 

 not true of some kinds of dry fodder, nor is it true 

 probably to the same extent of any kind of fodder. 



When feeding meal along with silage, the 

 amount of grain that the silage may contain should 

 be considered, and the amount of the meal fed regu- 

 lated accordingly. For instance, while it may be 

 necessary to feed ten pounds of silage daily to dairy 

 cows receiving a large proportion of corn silage 

 which has little or no grain in it, that amount might 

 prove excessive when the corn silage contains rela- 

 tively a large proportion of grain. ' It is practically 

 impossible to know exactly the proportion of the 

 grain which the silage contains, but a sufficiently 

 approximate estimate may be made by the prac- 

 ticed feeder. 



Attention should also be given to the constitu- 

 ents of the meal fed so as to balance the ration. 

 For instance, should the silage contain much of the 

 seed of the soy bean, it would be proper to add corn, 

 or some other carbonaceous meal, with much free- 

 dom. But if, on the other hand, it should contain 

 much corn and no other grain, it would be in order 

 to add much bran or other nitrogenous meal. 



Feeding Silage with Field Roots. — It is not 

 common to feed silage and field roots together, for 



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