ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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Cut 10. 



Illustrates Position of Machinery ready to fill Silo. 



Up it is better to feed green corn directly from the field so long 

 as it lasts, than to begin feeding immediately from the silo. The 

 average dairymen feeds from 30 to 45 pounds of silage a day to 

 each cow. This means that an acre of land yielding 12 tons of 

 green corn will supply the average ration of silage for seven 

 months to three animals. The amount of green corn raised per 

 acre, ranges from 8 to 22 tons. 



The silage should always be fed after milking on account of 

 the odor that it imparts. If fed before it is apt to taint the milk 

 or at least cause it to have an objectionable odor. It is also 

 important that no silage is left lying around in l/ : barn, or scat- 

 tered in the feeding alleys. The mangers, alleys and every part 

 of the barn should be entirely free from silage, as soon as the 

 cows hav€ finished eating that part of their ration. Years of 

 experience and many careful experiments have shown that silage 

 is one of the best milk producing foods that cows can be fed. If 



