1906. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FEEDING CORN SILAGE TO HORSES. 
Have you ever had any experience in 
feeding corn silage to horses? If you feed 
silage, how much do you consider a safe 
ration per day? Would you feed dry hay 
with it, and what kind of grain do you con¬ 
sider l>est to accompany it? 
We have never fed silage to horses, and 
hardly would try it, especially for work 
or driving horses. It’s too bulky, and the 
horse’s digestive system could not handle 
sufficient, in ..iy opinion, to make it prac¬ 
tical. Horses will not stand changes of 
feed like sheep or cows on account of a 
different digestive system, and sudden 
change or entirely different food often 
makes trouble. Our own experience and 
observation seems to be that the majority 
of horses die of colic, and changes of 
food are the most frequent cause of this. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
I have fed corn silage to horses for 10 
years; do not feed it as we do to dairy 
cows—all they will consume, as this I 
think would be injurious to horses, as they 
eat it quite greedily and would probably 
eat more than the small stomach could 
assimilate, and thus cause indigestion and 
perhaps death. Fed in small quantites, say 
5 to 10 pounds at a feed three times daily 
with wheat bran or oats to balance the 
ration, with what Timothy or clover hay 
they will readily consume, will keep the 
system in excellent condition, either for 
work or fattening, and so fed there is 
no danger whatever of injury in my 
opinion, based on several years’ practice, 
feeding silage to 0 to 10 head farm work 
horses and colts. l. p. barley. 
Ohio. 
My experience in feeding silage to 
horses is not very extensive. I fed about 
20 head of stock, one, two, three and four- 
year-old Percheron and French Coach 
stallions, silage for six months, Fall and 
Winter, two years ago, and believe it is 
good feed if used moderately with grain 
and hay for growing stock. 1 would qot 
use it under any conditions for work 
horses or horses that were being exer¬ 
cised. I fed one-half bushel, or about 
two-thirds bushel twice a day (average), 
some colts receiving more and some less, 
according to age. condition, etc. Hay 
and grain were fed twice a day, grain ra¬ 
tion to one part hominy meal and two 
parts bran. My colts wintered finely! 
came out fat and sleek in Spring, and had 
no sickness of any kind. T would recom¬ 
mend farmers trying silage on their colts, 
starting very light and gradually increas¬ 
ing to the required amount, but do not 
use it as an entire feed, or feed it to any 
horse that is being worked or driven. 
New York. E. s. akin. 
similar to that of roots, its tendency 
being somewhat laxative, and it seems 
to assist in the digestion of dry feed. 
Unfortunately, however, there are certain 
changes that very readily occur in corn 
silage that render it not only dangerous 
but fatal to horse fed upon it. A form 
of forage posoning—the so-called cerebro¬ 
spinal meningitis of horses—is frequently 
caused by damaged corn silage. Some 
time ago this disease occurred upon a 
dairy farm in Delaware County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and seven horses died. The dis¬ 
ease was believed to have been due to 
coni silage. In order to gain information 
on this point I took some of the silage to 
the Veterinary Hospital of the University 
of Pennsylvania, and fed small quantities 
of it to three horses. All three of these 
horses died of the same disease that oc¬ 
curred on the dairy farm, and the condi¬ 
tions governing the experiment were such 
as to lead me to the conclusion that death 
was in each case due to silage posoning. 
The same silage was fed to cattle without 
injurious results. The farmers in Dela¬ 
ware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, 
thoroughly understand the dangers at¬ 
tending the use of silage as food for 
horses. Leonard pearson. 
Pennsylvania State Veterinarian. 
IIen Notes.— I have one hen- — a small 
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to December 25. I think that is a good 
record for a two-year-old at this season. Now 
she wants to sit. My 15 liens laid five 
eggs on Christmas Day, beating the record 
of any one day since I have had them. They 
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Hoo Dice. —1 f G. M. II.. page 023, will 
feed ids Iiors sulphur in their slop he will 
not lie bothered any more with lice, as it 
will clean them thoroughly of the pest. Don’t 
lie afraid of rIvIhr too much, as it will not 
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in order thoroughly to mix witli slop; other¬ 
wise it will not mix so well. .r. w. 
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feeding cob meal to poultry. I have fed it 
for 12 years with good results; if finely 
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Wc have made no experiments feeding 
corn silage to horses at the Cornell Ex¬ 
periment station; have observed occa¬ 
sional items in the agricultural papers on 
the subject—some writers favoring the 
practice, others discouraging it. We 
know a canning factory owner who feeds 
peavine silage to his horses, and he states 
they do excellently on it. The only record 
we find of a trial made by an experiment 
station is in Bulletin No. 80 of the Vir¬ 
ginia Station. In this experiment corn 
silage was fed to two horses and six 
mules. The animals were given small 
amounts of silage for some weeks before 
the test proper. After the preliminary 
period they were fed for six weeks all 
the silage they would eat. with hay and 
corn in addition. The amounts of food 
consumed and the weights of the animals 
are recorded. The silage was not as 
readily eaten by horses as by cattle, and 
in the author’s opinion horses, after be¬ 
coming accustomed to silage, eat no more 
than they can easily assimilate. Some 
trouble lias been reported in feeding si¬ 
lage to horses. The author believes this 
may he attributed to feeding too large 
quantities at the start. In his own tests— 
“There was no falling off in flesh, and this 
though all the animals were constantly at 
work, except during stormy weather. They 
all made gains in weight, but those fed 
silage, corn, and hay, and the others fed 
corn and hay alone, gained about equally, 
so this fact amounted to nothing except 
as an indication of good health. As a whole 
it would appear that silage would make 
good coarse fodder for horses when used 
in connection with hay or stover and 
grain, hut that the animal should become 
accustomed to the food by degrees, and 
that this is as important as when changing 
from old to new corn, or from hay to 
grass.” j. L. STONE. 
Cornell University. 
1 have had considerable opportunity to 
observe the effects of corn silage on 
horses, and about three years ago T made a 
special study on this subject in connection 
with the occurrence of an outbreak of a 
form of forage poisoning. T know of nu¬ 
merous instances where silage has been 
fed to horses with excellent results. When 
it is in good condition it has an effect 
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