176 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Thursday afternoon, January 11th, 1900 



Silage vs. Non^Silage Milk 



PROF. W. J. FRASER, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I think the value of ensilag(^ 

 as food for the dairy cow is not ai»i)reciated by the average Illinois 

 dairyman. It is a well-known fact that you want to get as near summer 

 conditions as possible for the daiiy cow; they do better in summer time 

 than any time of the year. We can get the weather or as nearly a& 

 needed by warm barns. The great trouble then comes in the feed. 



In order to get the best results we must have green feed of some 

 sort, and this can only be produced by either feed roots or silage, and 

 roots are expensive to raise in Illinois because of the high price of labor. 

 Silage is very much cheaper. 



Corn is one of our principal crops. We get a great deal more from 

 the land on corn considering the labor and it also makes the best thing ta 

 put in silage. It is the best way of preserving corn. 



There have been a great many objections to silage in regard to flavor- 

 ing milk, and for that reason I took up a test at the University to deter- 

 mine what people liked, whether they perferred silage milk or non-silage 

 milk, and have some charts which show the test. 



Three cows were selected for silage and three for non-silage, and 

 they were selected from the herd for the best milk they give. By mix- 

 ing the milk of the three that were fed silage and the three that were fed- 

 non-silage it had the same amount of butter fat in it. The three fed with. 



