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be fed profitably outside in winter, and if you want to 

 carry your young stock through the winter without 

 grain, you can do it very much better with ensilage 

 than with hay. 



Now some people claim that ensilage will not make 

 good milk or butter, but that is a mistake, as good 

 sweet ensilage will make as good milk and butter as 

 can be made on other feed. 



Complaints have been made, we will admit, but if a 

 thorough investigation was made it doubtless would 

 show, if nothing else was wrong in the management 

 of the dairy, that the ensilage was moldy, sour or half 

 rotten, from which good milk or butter could no more 

 be expected than from moldy hay or decayed roots. 



Now, I want to say to the dairyman that is trying to 

 compete with bogus butter, without ensilage he is 

 along way behind, and the man who is raising beef in 

 competition with the western ranges will find himself 

 in the same boat, if he has not a good silo, well filled. 

 As to the variety of corn to fill the silo with, I prefer 

 the B. & W. or Southern corn, and will give my reasons 

 for using that variety. In the first place, it takes not 

 quite half the number of acres to fill the silo, and in 

 the second place it keeps a great deal better in the 

 silo, and after your silo is filled you have a great deal 

 more feed in it than you would have if you filled with 

 the common field variety, because it packs much closer 

 and the stalk is much sweeter with more leaves on it, 

 and another thing in its favor, it does not dry up as 

 rapidly in the hot dry weather, and I am satisfied that 

 better results can be obtained by adding the grain in 

 the natural state than by putting it through the silo, as 

 you are aware that ensilage is not a perfect food alone, 

 but only as it is fed in connection with other feed can 



