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onions because they have a strong flavor. I have experimented in that 

 line. Fed two cows and fe(J a little to see how long before you noticed 

 Xhe flavor in the milk. It will hold longer than twelve hours from onions. 

 Q. I will ask if there is generally more food that is put in than comes 

 ^out whole in a silo? 



A. That all depends upon the construction of the silo and how it is 

 ifilled. If constructed poorly so that it cannot all get in and filled poorly 

 3^ou will have trouble. If too ripe' will not shut easily. Ifi you don't 

 Iteep the silo level it will spread easily. A little higher on the outside 

 and tamped on the edges the corn and leaves will keep together. You 

 should not get over 5 per cent thai is put in poor shape. 



Mr. Davis: In feeding silage entirely with five pounds of grain a 

 day to cows, would taste more, show more flavor than if fifteen pounds 

 a day of grain, the same amount of silage? 



I would not think any difference if feeding the same amount of 

 silage. 



Q. Feeding forty pounds of silage with fifteen pounds of grain or 

 sixty pounds of silage with five pounds of grain? 



A. I should judge it would give more taste to the milk were you to 

 feed sixty or forty pounds. Naturally suppose so. In this case the 

 cows were fed forty pounds of silage. 



Q. How would you mix up the silage so the chaff portion and the 

 lieavy part should be distributed. It is a trouble to me to do so, and If 

 you know a better way than I do I would like to know how to do it? 



A. One way recommended is to take gunney sacks so you get a long 

 string of them clear from the carrier to the bottom of the silo and dis- 

 ferifoute it all in one place. If you have a carrier and can run it rather 

 slowly you will not get it separated. 



Q. The trouble seems to be it gets to the carrier and don't drop off as 

 soon as the stalks from the top. It is a nuisance. You have one part 

 falling over here and another part there. 

 A. Keep these mixed together. 



Prof. Kennedy: We have had twelve years' experience with silage 

 and for many years we had trouble. When corn is thrown up the heavy 



