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and there is no excuse for feeding it any more than the farmer would 
deliberately give his animals contaminated water or moldy hay. Com- 
mon sense is more needed in feeding silage to sheep and horses, than 
other live stock, because of the small quantities of any food their stomachs 
will hold at one time. 
Silage is good for horses. It can be fed to them in amounts varying 
from 7 to 15 pounds a day. Here again care should be exercised and the 
horse should only be fed small amounts at first until he gets used to the 
new ration. Where silage is used for roughage, concentrates must be 
fed. Alfalfa and corn silage makes an almost ideal balanced ration for 
horses and a very cheap one as well. 
Silage has been fed successfully not only to horses, but to poultry of 
all kinds. Chicken silos are advertised, but as a matter of fact, a large 
silo, preferably a tall one, with not too great a diameter, is most economical, 
as from it, at all times of the year, a succulent ration is provided for beef 
and dairy cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry of all kinds. 
"For four years now, we have been in the business of feeding western 
lambs. For the first two years we fed without a silo and for the last two 
The Silo a Y^ars with a silo. It is easy for me to say that we are well 
Valuable pleased with the results we have gained in using silage for feed- 
Adjunct in ing lambs. 
Sheep "Our silo is a cement stave silo 12 feet in diameter and 35 
^^erations ^^^^ with a capacity of 100 tons. It cost us $350 com- 
^ plete. From this silo this winter we fed 700 lambs, 1 cow, 3 
horses and 500 chickens. They emptied it in one hundred and ten days. 
H. M. Hatch's Silo at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Capacity, 110 tons. This silo has paid for itself 
many times since it was erected. 
