FHEDING OF SILAGE 165 
allowed to come in contact with the silage for 
reasonably short periods. 
The amount of silage to feed 
The quantity of silage to feed should be regu- 
lated to some extent by the kind of silage and the 
size of the animals. It should never serve as the 
exclusive food, but mainly to supply carbohydrate 
roughage. From thirty to thirty-five pounds per 
day, containing say 28 to 30 per cent of dry 
matter, are sufficient for an animal of 1,000 
pounds live weight. The feeding of silage should 
be accompanied, of course, by the use of the 
proper fine or concentrated feeds, and preferably 
with a little dry material, as cut corn-stalks or 
hay. When fed in this way, the results are alto- 
gether good. 
There have been no genuine investigations 
showing that silage causes any injury, when 
properly fed, or is in any way deleterious to 
the health of the animals, or unfavorably affects 
milk, butter or cheese. On the contrary, the 
health of animals in winter is usually better under 
the use of the succulent food, and the returns per 
unit of dry matter for silage used in the dairy, 
compared with the dry fodder corn, are about 12 
per cent greater. These results have been secured 
in actual experiments to determine the relative 
