^^2 Illinois State Dairynieivs Association. 



To reduce the cost of filling the different silos to a like 

 basis, the charge made in these records for each of the various 

 operations was uniform, and as near as possible to the average 

 price paid. The labor of the men was charged at $1.25 and of 

 the teams at $1.00 each for a day of ten hours. This was con- 

 sidered a fair price,, as the time of year in which silos are filled 

 is not usually an especially busy season on the farm. In most 

 cases the man who had the silo also owned an ensilage cutter, 

 and a uniform charge of $2.00 a day was made for wear on the 

 machine and interest on the money invested. The engine, includ- 

 ing the engineer, was charged for at $5.00 a day; fuel at $3.00 

 a ton for coal and 15 cents a gallon for gasoline; twine at 11 

 cents a pound. The charge for machine and engine, fuel, twine 

 and labor of men and teams, gives the total expense of filling the 

 silo. 



To determine the capacity of the different silos the diameter 

 of each and the depth of the silage after settling forty-eight hours 

 were carefully measured. From these dimensions the number of 

 tons of silage was estimated from a table on the capacity of silos. 

 Having the acres cut, a total cost of filling and tons of silage, the 

 tons per acre and average cost per ton. of putting up silage were 

 computed. 



The cost of filling ranged from 40 cents to 76 cents per ton, 

 the average for the total number of tons put up being 56 cents. 

 This variation was caused by the distance the corn was hauled, 

 and the ability of some farmers to arrange the work more syste- 

 matically and push it with greater energy than others. 



Effect of Corn Silage on the Flavor of Milk. 



Ever since silage has been used as a feed for dairy cows, 

 there has been more or less controversy over its effect upon the 

 flavor of milk, the objection being occasionally raised that milk 

 from silage-fed cows had an unpleasant, if not a disagreeable, 

 flavor. To determine what foundation, if any, there was for 

 this belief, the experiment herein described was undertaken and 

 conducted in the following manner : 



The University dairy herd was divided into two lots, one of 

 which was fed forty pounds of corn silage per cow per day, 

 which is the maximum amount for economical feeding, together 



