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THE RUEAL N3W-YORKER 
May 25, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
VALUE OF A SUMMER SILO. 
The Summer silo is certainly practical 
for corn, and there is no green food 
equal to it as a milk producer. This 
doubtless is chiefly due to the fact that 
the heating process in the silo 
gives it to the cow partially digested. 
At the Pan-American Exposition, we 
thoroughly tested this out. Our silage 
was very good so far as its original 
quality was concerned, but it was put 
up 16 miles away from the grounds. I 
had a man equipped with a tight box, 
large enough to hold a day’s supply. • He 
would start about midnight from the 
silo, and reach the ground in time for 
ihe morning feed at six o’clock. Dur¬ 
ing the hot weather of the very hot 
Summer of 1901, the silage could not 
have been at its best under those con¬ 
ditions. It was charged to the cows at 
$2 a ton. This lasted until the second 
week of August, I then had a silo 
erected on the grounds, and we filled it, 
so as to feed from it early in Septem¬ 
ber. In the interim we had clover, peas, 
oats, millet, and green corn ; all of the 
best, for the men were anxious to have 
their cattle do their best, and objected 
if the feed was a little dry, over-ripe 
or weedy, so I paid a little extra to 
have the sellers bring me only the very 
best. This was charged to the cows at 
$1.75 a ton. Our records showed that 
the not perfect silage was cheaper as 
a milk producer at $2 than was the 
selected green feed at $1.75. Many, like 
the writer, cannot always hold over a 
sufficient supply of silage to give sup¬ 
plementary feed through the Summer, 
b'or the last few years anything but 
clover hay has been too high to feed, 
hence we have considered it economy 
to use all the silage possible in the non¬ 
pasture season, and so have exhausted 
most of our supply at that time. It is 
true that other crops can be put in the 
silo—with a good degree of success, 
yet none so well as corn. The stalky 
plants, like rye or oats, carry a good 
deal of air in their hollow stalks, hence 
they do not save as well. The legumi¬ 
nous plants generate a different fer¬ 
ment from the corn, therefore they do 
not keep as well. With any crop for 
ihe silo there must be a sufficient 
quantity to pack hard and exclude the 
air, or there will be mould and decay. 
This to my mind is the fatal objection 
to putting in odds and ends, and tails 
of green crops. The only possible gain 
is in labor, and this is more than offset 
by the deterioration of the product. 
When they are made into hay—as one 
must do if he has a surplus and does 
not silo it, which I do not think practi¬ 
cal as indicated—they lose much of their 
milk-producing power with their loss 
of succulence. We prefer to hold such 
for Winter feeding in connection with 
silage. 
At this time I want to urge the pro¬ 
viding of some supplementary food to 
take the place of the scanty pasture. 
Prof. Sanborn of New Hampshire 
found that the normal shrinkage of 
cows when they were quiet, and had 
an abundance of the right kind of food 
was seven pounds a month, when 
pastured and soiled together 13 pounds, 
when no soiling crops were provided 31 
pounds. This coincides with my own 
experience. Men who bring me four 
cans of milk in April and May from 
cows largely fresh in the late Winter 
and Spring, usually get down to two 
before the last of July. Next Summer 
when the pasture gets short—as it surely 
will—and the price of milk goes up, will 
be too late to help matters, and to buy 
expensive grain after the cows have 
shrunk, is to get very little of the ex¬ 
penditure back. This loss can be pre¬ 
vented by a few soiling crops. The 
proper way would have been to put in 
some rye and wheat last Fall to feed 
after the silage is gone in many cases, 
and to supplement the pasture in others. 
This will last about 10 days, then the 
wheat, which is better and will stay 
green longer. This ground can then 
be sown in millet or planted with corn. 
Then comes clover—of course when 
one has Alfalfa he has a continual feast 
—the clover by two sowings of Canada 
peas and oats, the first put in as soon 
as the ground will permit, the second 
about 10 days later. This will supply 
feed until the first of August, when the 
millet will be ready, this to be fol¬ 
lowed by sweet, then field corn, which 
brings us around to the silo again. I 
would not omit to mention pumpkins 
as a valuable addition until pasture is 
no more. Four acres devoted to these 
crops will give abundance in addition 
to the pasture for 25 cows, and will 
afford more feed than 20 acres pastured. 
Too much work? Well, the man who 
wants to succeed without effort would 
better migrate to some of the South 
Sea islands, where they wear few 
clothes, need little shelter and subsist 
on the fruits of the trees and food from 
the sea. He has little chance in New 
\ ork State. I find it very much less 
expensive to put forth a little labor in 
growing crops and giving them to the 
cows as above, than to spend it in car¬ 
ing for, and milking cows, giving only 
half the quantity of milk they are 
capable of. A little system counts here 
as elsewhere. Some one makes it his 
business to cut the feed first thing in 
the morning, throw it on heaps; when 
the team comes in from the field, it 
takes but a few moments to throw it 
on, drive up to the door, and before 
hitching up, place it in the mangers. 
Like the Israelites of old with the 
manna, we gather on Saturday enough 
to last over Sunday. Let me urge in 
conclusion the importance of feeding 
the supplementary feed in the stable, 
never on the lot, where it is trodden 
under foot, and the master cows keep 
the others away. Also an illustration. 
My next . neighbor was short on his 
guaranteed contract for milk last Sum¬ 
mer, and came to me to help him make 
out his supply. His cows were shrink¬ 
ing daily, until he wanted a half-can 
each morning; this was more than I 
could well spare. I knew he had pro¬ 
vided no extra feed, but I also knew 
that he had a fine lot of green oats. I 
told him I would let him have his 20 
quarts for two days provided he would 
give his cows a good feed of the green 
oats at night. After the second day, 
instead of needing milk, he brought me 
20 quarts he had extra. Did it pay to 
feed? EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Sheep and Goats. —I have noticed the 
several comments upon a few goats pro¬ 
tecting a flock of sheep from dogs. I 
don't know anything about that, but I 
put in several years in Cuba, and at one 
time had a herd of 1,000 goats that could 
not protect themselves from dogs any more" 
than so many sheep could. n. j. i. 
Danielson, Conn. 
Jersey Catti.e Club Tests.- —The Amer¬ 
ican Jersey Cattle Club has decided that 
no part of the expenses incurred in au¬ 
thenticating tests which are started after 
May 1, 1912, shall be met by the club, but 
that, in view of the implied obligation un¬ 
der the present rules, the club will pay 
one-half of the expenses of the year’s 
tests at this date under supervision by 
club’s representatives until same are com¬ 
pleted. In herds where testing is at this 
date being conducted, if the owner should 
enter new cows after May 1, 1912, he 
shall bear all of the pro-rata expense of 
authenticating the teste of such cows, but 
the club will bear one-half the pro-rata 
expense of testing the cows entered before 
May 1, 1912. One-half of the expense of 
scoring cows under test May 1. 1912, will 
be paid by the club, provided they are 
scored before the completion of their test 
periods. The scoring of all other animals 
will be at the -owner’s cost. 
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