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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May lo 
Live StockandDairy 
SILAGE IN PLACE OF PASTURE 
For Cattle, Sheep and Swine. 
Can silage be made to take the place of 
pasture entirely during the Spring, Sum¬ 
mer and Fall months, so that an animal 
need not depend on what he gets when 
turned out for exercise? Can I keep 100 
ewes with their lambs, 10 or 15 brood sows 
with their pigs and eight or 10 cows or 
steers in small fields of say five or six 
acres in extent (each kind by themselves) 
just enough for exercise, never taking 
them out; supplying them with all the 
silage they will eat and make both mothers 
and young do as well in putting on fat as 
when turned out to pasture? There would 
be no waste from trampling where one 
raises forage crops. It would require less 
fences (sheep fences must be tight at any 
cost); no danger from dogs, and the stock 
always near buildings. Will it require more 
grain to balance the ration when silage 
rather than pasture is given? My plan 
would be to raise a mixture of Canada 
peas, oats and Dwarf Essex rape which I 
would cut and fill our stave silo with, then 
plow up and immediately replant for filling 
a second silo while using up the first. 
Then in the Fall I would have my corn 
crop put in silo for Winter use. The ex¬ 
pense of filling the silo and cost of carting, 
and spreading the manure, together with 
the labor of feeding the animals, consti¬ 
tutes the excess of expenditures over pas¬ 
turing in the open field. If this method 
will give the same result as pasturing, one 
is always sure of a good supply of food at 
all times, and no danger of short pasture 
in the heat of Summer with its attendant 
losses. The fence item is a large saving 
in cost as I indicated above. I would, of 
course, have a good supply of hay on hand 
to help out the ration when needed. Will 
you give me some cheap and nutritious 
daily rations for cows, sheep and sows 
when with young? I have a farm of 175 
acres, and have been raising corn, pota¬ 
toes, wheat and hay as a rotation, to¬ 
gether with the results of about 4,000 fruit 
trees. I want to drop the potatoes from 
my rotation and raise forage crops on my 
last year’s cornfield instead. Instead of 
turning stock into the field (my fields are 
about 20 acres each in extent), I would 
rather fill a silo from the field and imme¬ 
diately reseed. This does away with fences 
and gives me a lot of extra time to grow 
another crop which I would not have if 
stock were eating it off. Do you know 
of anyone who has tried this method of 
feeding? If so, with what results? 
Red Bank, N. J. h. c. m l. 
No, silage will not take the place of 
pasture. We cannot expect a corn plant 
growing 15 tons to the acre to take the 
place of a fine short pasture grass, when 
the grass is at its best. In the former 
case we have less digestible matter; in 
the latter a condensed food that will 
produce more milk and growth than any 
other single food. I do not wish to be 
undei’stood that the silo cannot be used 
as a Summer food. The questioner has 
opened a wide field, and one upon which 
hangs the success of future eastern 
stock farming; less grazing and more 
cultivation, thereby increasing the pro¬ 
ducing power of the soil. In my judg¬ 
ment the future value of eastern farms 
for agricultural purposes will depend 
upon the ability to produce crops. 1 
cannot safely advise any crop but corn 
for the silo. From personal experience 
and observation I would not advise 
clover, oats and peas, or, in fact, any of 
the forage crops with which I am famil¬ 
iar. Just why it is so I am unable to ex¬ 
plain. Clover that was silaged last Fall 
in a manner seemingly perfect did not 
please the stock, and a corresponding 
shrinkage took place. At a time when 
the weather is unfavorable, such as early 
Summer, or late Summer or early Fall 
cutting, and a consequent loss is immi¬ 
nent, acceptance of the lesser of two 
evils may be advised, and the silo a safer 
agent than the haying system. 
The reason I am not concerned about 
the future of silaging a balanced ration 
which may be made up of clover or 
cow peas grown in the corn is because 
I am yet to be convinced that a part dry 
food, if only of the leguminous plants, 
does not make tne best ration. A great 
deal of live interest is now manifest in 
our State over the growing of a balanced 
silage ration; I am not sufficiently anx¬ 
ious to spend much time on the subject. 
I might look at this question from an¬ 
other view point. If we could not grow 
Alfalfa or Red clover, early-cut clover 
and corn silage come very near a perfect 
ration. A very light feed of bran and 
gluten, three or four pounds, will pro¬ 
duce a satisfactory flow. For Summer 
feed we can safely tie to corn silage, and 
the forage plants that may be found 
most easily grown in a given locality. 
The milk flow will not be as large in 
the early season unless a grain ration is 
fed. We can easily afford to reduce the 
milk yield somewhat during June. We 
have only about one-fifth of the whole 
year in which time pasture grass will 
excel; while we are increasing the out¬ 
put for six weeks we are allowing this 
land to produce only a small quantity 
of food and asking it to lie idle the re¬ 
mainder of the season. I am in doubt 
about a system that provides stabling 
the year around; I am not in doubt 
about a plan that provides only a very 
small run, the soiling crops being the 
mainstay, and as evidence of my posi¬ 
tion our “Union Home Farms” contain 
each year less grazing land than the 
year before, the land taking its place in 
the regular rotation. 
If sheep were put upon this care they 
would no doubt require a light ration of 
grain, preferably bran, because they do 
not take as kindly to silage as dairy 
cows. I am particularly pleased to see 
the question about nogs; I am unable to 
understand why the eastern farmer does 
not take more kindly to swine. The 
farmers in the milk-selling sections fre¬ 
quently buy their own pork, and when 
they produce their own supply there the 
whole matter ends. Hog feeding in the 
West is practiced without resort to 
skim-milk and whey. These are valu¬ 
able foods, and when at hand make for 
cheap pork. From the fact that swine 
are grazing animals why not take ad¬ 
vantage of that natural disposition, and 
feed them upon clover, oats and peas, or 
rape? They do not take so kindly to si¬ 
lage. Breeding stock will eat a little 
each day. A few mangels are valuable 
also, not alone for swine, but cows and 
poultry have a decided relish for them. 
Successful stock feeding of whatever 
kind must recognize palatability. They 
like roots and thrive upon them. I find 
an increased milk flow when mangels 
are added to a silage ration. Of course 
corn silage furnishes succulence, but 
beets have a value as a digestive agent. 
Cost of labor and ability to manage it 
is a factor in the case that must not be 
overlooked. If a few men can be em¬ 
ployed to advantage, then profit is quite 
surely guaranteed. Otherwise stick to 
the old plan; corn silage, clover, mixed 
hay, mangels, wheat bran and oats are 
excellent foods for animals when carry¬ 
ing their young. The necessity of suc¬ 
culence and of bone and blood making 
material, must be kept in mind. Quite 
a wide variation is then possible. 
H. E. COOK. 
Silage is not considered a desirable food 
for hogs. Knowing what I do of its nature 
and composition, I would not recommend 
it in the ration of either fattening or breed¬ 
ing hogs. I much prefer roots, sugar beets, 
or mangels for succulent food in Winter 
for brood sows. If it is desirable to feed 
something a little more bulky with the 
roots, as I believe it is, I should use well- 
cured clover hay. 
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