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THU KUKAL NEW-VORKEK 
June 8, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
FEEDING SILAGE TO BEEF CATTLE. 
We have not used silage for this purpose, 
hut have used it for breeding stock of a 
beef breed, namely, the Aberdeen Angus, 
and we consider it the cheapest and best 
feed in existence for beef, mint, or breeding 
stock, to be used in connection with dry 
feed. We always fed our silage in tne 
morning and dry feed at nigbt, and had 
splendid results. We see no reason why 
beef cannot be prolitably grown in Dela¬ 
ware with the use of silage, and our mild 
climate should make this an ideal beef 
producing country. We can grow as heavy 
a crop of silage corn here as almost any¬ 
where, and sorghum we would also consider 
a good silage feed, it yields very heavily, 
more 1 think than corn. We use it for 
green feed for our horses, colts and cattle 
from August till October frost falls on it, 
and sometimes think we could not grow 
stock without it to a profit. When our 
pastures are dry and short in the Fall the 
sorghum is fed once a day, all the stock 
will eat scattered over the pastures, and 
they begin to fatten as soon as we com¬ 
mence feeding it. MV EE & son. 
Delaware. 
After an experience of seven years feed¬ 
ing silage to beef cattle I believe it to be 
the best and cheapest feed that can be 
raised in a country suited to corn culture, 
i cannot say what it would cost W. It. M., 
page 010, to feed a steer on silage, as so 
much depends on local conditions. The 
man who can raise 00 to 75 bushels of 
corn to the acre and can handle it cheaply 
certainly can feed cheaper than the man 
who raises only 25 bushels to the acre and 
has poor facilities for making it into sil¬ 
age. I think a silo 15x80 holding about 
100 tons would feed 50 cattle weighing 800 
pounds four months all the silage they 
would cat, provided they have a little hay 
and the proper concentrates which I can 
procure cheapest in cotton-seed meal. As 
to profit, so much depends on the man, the 
breeding of the cattle and local conditions, 
that I would not venture a guess. A well- 
bred steer will take on twice as much 
weight as a scrub, and sell for much more 
per pound, and make a profit, while a scrub 
will lose money. Don’t feed good feed into 
bad cattle. 1 would raise the largest corn 
that would mature in my land ; in fact I 
raise a corn that will not all mature for 
cribbing, and let it stand as long as 1 dare 
on account of frost. 1 plant so as to raise 
the largest amount of grain. If a corn- 
binder is used to harvest tne corn it works 
best on drilled corn. As to whether it will 
be profitable and how much it will cost to 
feed them, it is impossible for me even to 
make a guess, as so much depends upon vhe 
man, on local conditions, markets, etc. The 
kind of cattle you get has much to do with 
it, as some cattle will gain twice as much 
as others. It is quite difficult now to buy 
good feeders at a fair price. If W. R. M. 
will send to the Virginia Experiment Sta¬ 
tion for its bulletin on feeding silage to 
beef cattle lie will get facts no one can 
give otherwise. The Virginia Experiment 
Station has made extensive experiments 
with feeding silage to all grades of beef 
cattle, and furnishes an instructive bulle¬ 
tin that will answer W. It. M.’s questions 
better than any feeder can, because of the 
care taken to weigh everything and keep 
carefully the results. it. e. thrasher. 
West Virginia. 
For steers on full feed silage is too bulky 
and carries too much water, and for best 
results the daily ration should be about 10 
pounds per head. If the steers are just 
to be carried through Winter then silage, 
even fed alone, is a cheap and satisfactory 
feed, though Soy beans cut into the silo 
with the corn or some cotton-seed meal 
added to the ration will greatly improve 
the feeding value. A silo 15x33 feet should 
hold 120 tons, which should be ample to 
feed the 50 steers 40 pounds per day each, 
and eight or 10 acres of good corn should 
fill the silo. Stave silos are in the major¬ 
ity here, and are probably the best form 
of wooden silo. A good-sized and leafy va¬ 
riety of corn should be grown; drilling is 
best, and at the usual distances for a crop 
of grain, the method of planting here being 
in drills 3% feet apart and 12 to 10 inches 
apart in the rows, a single grain in a place. 
The corn should be planted at the usual 
corn planting time, and put into the silo 
when the corn is ripe enough to shock. The 
silage should not cost more than 82 per 
ton to produce, and a good stave silo with 
stone or concrete foundation should not 
cost more than 81.50 for each ton of 
capacity. Steers eating a large ration of 
silage will relish some crushed corn and 
cotton-seed meal, and perhaps some dry 
fodder, though clover or Alfalfa hay would 
he more desirable. The use of silos has so 
many good points to recommend it to feed¬ 
ers of dairy and beef cattle that the writer 
does not hesitate to advise their construc¬ 
tion as a part of the building equipment 
of the farm. w. e. duckwall. 
Ohio. 
The questions of W. R. M., page (510, are 
worthy of thorough discussion. I will not 
attempt to answer the questions, but only 
give a few suggestions as to the conditions 
here and the feed available and let some 
college professor or some one who under¬ 
stands the balancing of feed rations answer 
the questions. In the first place I think 
better barns would be needed here to house 
live stock, to make a success of feeding. 
There are lots of cattle which have very 
poor shelter. As to the feed that can be 
grown, conditions are ideal. It is almost 
indefinite how much silage can be grown 
on an acre of ground here. If ground is in 
good condition, I think it would be best to 
plant in drills about one foot apart in the 
drill, rows wide enough apart to cultivate 
thoroughly, and if Velvet beans were 
planted with the corn the tons per acre 
would be greatly increased, and add to the 
feeding value of the silage. 1 think Eureka 
corn would be the best variety to plant. 
Soy beans grow very well here. Why not 
raise Soy beans and grind them up with the 
nubbin corn to help balance the feed ration, 
run the fodder through a fodder cutter, 
and feed stock molasses along with the 
fodder? Every bit will be eaten clean; also 
feed the Soy bean straw in the same way. 
I think W. R. M.’s conditions would be 
first class for baby beef raising. What 
De'aware needs is more live stock raising 
and feeding. Farming conditions would be 
greatly improved in that way. 1 think the 
Delaware Experiment Station at Newark, 
Del., could assist W. R. M. very well in get¬ 
ting started in his feeding venture, which 
if rightly managed will add fertility to his 
soil and dollars to his bank account. 
Delaware. G. c. 
In the corn belt silage is the cheapest 
and best feed for cattle, either for beef or 
milk production. 1 will give figures with 
impression that W. R. M. is also the owner 
as well as the farmer of the 300 acres. 
Build some kind of an imperishable silo of 
tile or glazed clay, no insurance needed 
on building or contents, no paint or re¬ 
pairs, no blowing down. Size of silo for 
50 head of cattle 10x30, 150 tons capacity, 
costing about 8400 ; will feed 50 head four 
months and a little left for dry weather 
if needed; the yield of corn to be 10 tons 
per acre, would require 15 acres to fill silo. 
As to relative cost of production, corn sil¬ 
age or dry feed and stover putting corn in 
silo cost 50 cents per ton. 150 tons 875. 
Cutting, husking and binding stalks on 15 
acres, or 1020 stacks at nine cents per 
stack, 801.80; 81 for twine, 892.80; will 
cost about 82.50 per acre to get the dry 
corn ground, 857.50, so the expense of dry 
crop will be 8180.80. I consider the cart¬ 
ing of corn from field to silo will equal 
carting dry corn and stalks from field and 
carting corn to mill and home after grind¬ 
ing, so we have a difference of 855.30 in 
favor of the silage as cost of production, 
as the silo cost more for storage than a 
corn crib to hold corn and a rick outdoors 
for stalks. Suppose we deduct from the 
$55.30 interest on the silo cost of $400 at 
six per cent, $24.00 ; then the balance will 
be $81.30, still in favor of silo. So in a 
direct way you can see $31.30 to go in 
the little redhead’ bank, while 150 tons of 
corn goes in the imperishable silo, two 
things which ought to put any farmer in 
the class of good intelligent stock raiser. 
I have fully considered this fact, that 
one acre of corn in the silo is worth two 
in the field, half under water or snow, or 
to put it in other words, the silo doubles 
the value of the corn crop to be fed on the 
farm, and will give better results either in 
beef production or milk production. The 
kind of corn to plant is the kind which 
suits the soil best; the kind formerly grown 
would be a good variety to try first. Plant 
same time as for growing regular.crop. If 
to bo cut by hand knives plant in hills 
about 28 inches apart, four grains in place, 
and rows about four feet apart. If to be 
cut by machine plant in rows one grain in 
place about eight or 10 inches apart. The 
time to cut will be controlled by local 
observations only, or when the corn has 
reached the proper maturity of grain. 
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