1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
113 
SUMMER SILAGE FOR COWS. 
One of our readers wishes to feed silage 
through the Summer, and has eight or 10 
cows. He wants to know whether the cows 
will eat silage as well in Summer as in 
Winter. He also wishes to know how large 
a silo he should build in order to feed these 
cows. He now has a silo 12 x 12 x 20 feet, 
which holds enough to last from October 
] to May 10. Would he better build a new 
silo, or put 10 feet on the top of the old 
one? Can he hope to feed the silo fast 
enough to eight cows from a 12-foot square 
surface so as to keep it trom spoiling in the 
Summer? Would not a smaller silo be bet¬ 
ter for this Summer feed? 
Our experience has been that cows on 
moderate pasture eat silage quite as 
well in Summer as in Winter. Our silos 
are all large, but I would unhesitating¬ 
ly say to your reader, by all means build 
a small silo for Summer feeding, one 
having not more than 50 feet of feeding 
surface, as you cannot take off enough 
each day from the surface of the old 
silo to prevent the silage from becom¬ 
ing stale and unpalatable. Probably a 
round silo eight feet in diameter would 
he about the thing for this inquirer. 
C11AS. H. ROYCE. 
We have fed silage in the Summer, 
and the cows ate readily even when on 
full pasture; that is, small quantities. 
Of course cows like fresh grass, and pre¬ 
fer it to other foods, but just in propor¬ 
tion as the grass is deficient will they 
eat silage. In dry sections where Sum¬ 
mer soiling crops cannot be grown with 
absolute certainty, silage is by all 
means the cheapest and best of foods. 
The best of results will be secured if a 
small ration daily of some rich nitro¬ 
genous food is fed with it; clover or Al¬ 
falfa, if at hand, or bran, gluten, cotton¬ 
seed meal or brewer’s grains. The trou¬ 
ble with Summer silage is the rapid de¬ 
cay when exposed to the air, and to just 
such an extent as this prevails will the 
food lose in feeding value, and affect 
the character of the product. Any food 
that is wet is in danger of decay in air 
exposure under high temperatures; 
hence the necessity of daily removing a 
thin layer of the food. In regard to the 
size I should advise putting on 15 feet 
more on tne 20-foot silo if it is strong 
enough to stand the lateral pressure, 
and the means of elevating at filling 
time are easy. If otherwise build an¬ 
other silo 10 feet in diameter and as 
high as convenient, say 25 feet. This 
extra depth will make the silage in the 
bottom, which will be kept for Summer, 
very compact, and thus avoid decay. 
Keeping the surface wet with cold water 
will aid in checking fermentation. 
H. E. COOK. 
The silo has been brought into use in 
the Summer feeding of the herd by a 
few dairymen, but the conditions are so 
different in Summer from those of the 
Winter season that different factors en¬ 
ter into the problem. Some have been 
disappointed in the value of silage for 
Summer feeding, because of the large 
waste due to moldy silage. This trou¬ 
ble is most common when relatively 
large silos are used. Owing to the high 
temperature of the Summer bacteria 
and molds multiply rapidly, causing a 
much higher rate of decomposition. A 
silo that would have none too large a 
surface for Winter feeding would often 
be fed from so slowly in the Summer as 
to cause the silage to mold badly, and 
much of the feed would need to be dis¬ 
carded. I am inclined to doubt whether 
a Summer silo would prove profitable 
for a herd of less than 12 to 15 cows. 
Pasturage, supplemented by the use of 
soiling crops after July 15, would give 
better results than the silo for a small 
herd. From two seasons’ experience 
with a large silo we are inclined to ad¬ 
vise a separate silo for Summer use. A 
silo not over 12x12 feet would be large 
enough for a herd of 18 to 20 cows, 
when the herd gets a considerable part 
of its food from the pasture. The ques¬ 
tion of which would be the more profit¬ 
able, the use of soiling crops or the 
Summer use of the silo, is one which 
should be carefully studied according to 
the size of the herd, the location of the 
fields and other local conditions. 
Connecticut. c. s. fhelpb. 
Cows will eat silage readily in Sum¬ 
mer if they have not sufficient food in 
the pasture. I do not think they are 
quite as fond of it, with some pasture, 
as in Winter when they have alto¬ 
gether only other food that is dry. 
Still, our cows in the dairy test at Buf¬ 
falo ate silage greedily even when they 
were eating with it the best of green 
feed. If the silo is strong enough I 
would put the extra 10 feet on the top. 
Eight cows will take the silage fast 
enough from the bottom of a 30-foot 
silo (if fed 30 pounds a day) to prevent 
its spoiling. It will Keep much better 
there than in a small area not so well 
pressed down. I do not believe in the 
small silo, even for bummer. The per 
cent of loss is too great on the top and 
sides, particularly when it has to stand 
six or eight months before being opened. 
I have one holding 75 tons built for a 
Summer silo, 12x12 feet square, and an¬ 
other holding 125 tons, 12x17 feet sur¬ 
face. I should prefer to have one hold¬ 
ing 200 tons; as it is, for three years I 
have fed the small one out first, and 
used the silage in the bottom of the 
large one for Summer feed. 
New York, edwaiid van alstyne. 
SOME REMARKABLE EGG RECORDS. 
Two or three years ago I sent you a 
record of eggs from five Plymouth Rock 
pullets. In the month of December, 
1898, they laid 85 eggs, an average for 
each of 17. This recoru has never been 
equaled or approached by my Plymouth 
Rocks, either hens or pullets, since that 
time. They have steadily increased in 
weight up to 10 pounas, while diminish¬ 
ing in egg production. Last Spring I 
procured some White Wyandotte eggs 
from pedigree hens with a record of up¬ 
ward of 200 eggs in a year. From these 
I raised 10 pullets, coming out April 25 
to May 10. One of them began laying 
October 13, just over 5 y 2 months old. By 
November 1 the 10 had dropped 25 eggs 
—average 2.5; November 1 to December 
1, 109 eggs—average 10.9; December 1 to 
January 1, 195 eggs—average 19.5; first 
22 days in January (date of writing) 137 
eggs, but slightly below December aver¬ 
age. With eggs retailing around 50 cents 
per dozen through December in some 
of our large cities, the j.0 pullets pretty 
well paid for themselves in one month. 
With one exception, so far as heard 
from, everyone in this region complains 
of unusually poor egg production this 
Winter. One with 40 or 50 hens reports 
two or three eggs per day. Another up 
to January 15 had not got an egg from 
17 Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island 
Red pullets. Also others in similar pro¬ 
portion. 
Referring to Mr. Underwood’s 150 pul¬ 
lets, page 63, your correspondent gives 
“one day’s yield” in first week in Janu¬ 
ary as 61 eggs. If this was an average 
for the month of December it would ag¬ 
gregate 1,891 eggs, an average of 12.6 
per pullet. If these pullets were bred 
from the average run of fowls, with lit¬ 
tle or no regard for selection, I should 
say that the average of 12.6 is a remark¬ 
ably good showing. But if tney were 
bred from undoubted prolific layers, 
kept in yards of not less than 50x50 in¬ 
stead of 10x16, and not more than 15 in 
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a yard, the average of 12.6 would be 
hardly worth mentioning. I am much 
pleased with the White Wyandotte. 
Still, 1 am not sure that the Plymouth 
Rocks, if bred from good layers, care¬ 
fully selected, not over large, and intel¬ 
ligently cared for would not prove 
equally profitable. I do not think it is 
so much the variety of food given hens 
as the quality that produces good re¬ 
sults. I give warm mash in the morn¬ 
ing, consisting of cracked corn, dry beef 
scraps and boiled mashed potatoes—all 
they will eat. At night, two parts whole 
sweet corn, one part wheat or oats—not 
quite as much as they would eat. Do 
not give them cut Done; I think it 
causes diarrhoea. h. h. b. 
Jewett City, Conn. 
A Bull in Harness. 
Fig. 42, first page, from Bulletin 
No. 80, Rhode Island Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, shows the Guernsey bull, Glen- 
wood’s Duke of Haddon 5752. This ani¬ 
mal is four years old, and was trained 
when about three. He was first har¬ 
nessed and led about by the ring in the 
nose; then hitched to a stone drag, and 
afterward to a two-wheeled cart. Final¬ 
ly, instead of leading him, it became 
possible to drive him by fastening a 
rein into either side of the ring in his 
nose. This method of guiding was ren¬ 
dered possible by giving him a liberal 
feed of apples at the end of each drive. 
He soon learned that if he behaved him¬ 
self and turned to the right or left, ac¬ 
cording to the pull on the rein, he would 
be rewarded at the end of the trip. 
This exercise has had an excellent effect 
in making him quiet and peaceable, and 
such treatment is certainly more in ac¬ 
cord with common sense than the ordin¬ 
ary method of chaining a bull up in a 
dark stable with but little chance to stir 
around and use his surplus strength. It 
is not surprising that under such cir¬ 
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