r.no. 
975 
FEEDING SILAGE SOON AS MADE. 
IIow soon can corn silage be fed to beef 
cattle after putting it in *■»>« silo t The 
corn was well dented and the fodder in 
good condition to get most of the sap at 
time of filling. Will you outline a routine 
of feeding other foodstuffs in connection 
with the silage? H. w. M. 
Pulaski. Va. 
Corn silage may be fed as soon as the 
silo is filled provided you have cattle 
enough to eat all that has started to 
ferment or heat on top of the silo each 
time you feed. As it is impossible to 
pack the top solidly and use from it at 
the same time, it heats very quickly and 
becomes unfit for feeding purposes in a 
few days unless it is fed quickly. Un¬ 
less you have a large stock of cattle and 
several silos it would be better to cover 
the silage with cut straw or weeds, wet¬ 
ting the top down thoroughly so it will 
pack, and let it stand for two weeks, 
when the decayed top can be removed 
and the silage underneath will be in good 
condition for feeding. Good silage made 
from well-eared corn is a carbonaceous 
feed well adapted to the feeding of beef 
cattle. In connection with this I would 
recommend feeding a mixture of ground 
barley and corn chop, equal parts, with a 
light feed of hay at noon, the silage and 
hay to be divided into two feeds for 
morning and night. If your cattle are 
young, that is less than 18 months old, 
and you want to grow them larger, you 
can use wheat bran and ground oats if 
you can get oats cheap enough to use 
for this purpose, in the proportion of 
about two pounds of oats to one pound 
of wheat bran mixed with the corn chop 
and ground barley equal parts by weight. 
Be sure to provide plenty of fresh water 
to drink and salt regularly. Keep the 
animals comfortable at all times, feeding 
liberally but not too much, and they will 
grow and fatten nicely. c. s. G. 
RAPE FOR THE LAMBS. 
“Keep up the grain ration after the 
sheep and lambs go to pasture” is advice 
which I believe the average farmer will 
find hard to follow. The grain bins are 
nearly empty; work crowds upon us so 
we hardly know which way to turn or, 
as is often the case, the flock is turned 
away on 'a mountain pasture three or 
four or even more miles away where it is 
quite a task to get to salt them once a 
week. I have tried the plan a bit myself, 
and my experience leads me to believe 
that the extra care is needed more in 
the hot dry weather of July and August 
than in the Spring months. The grass 
becomes tainted with the droppings and is 
withered and dry, and the ewes are 
naturally giving less milk than earlier in 
the season, while the lambs, being larger, 
require much more food than in their 
younger days. Two or three acres of 
rape furnishes this needed food in 
abundance, and will make lambs gain 
faster than any other feed I have tried, 
especially if a light grain ration is given 
also. A corner of the pasture plow r ed 
in the Fall and sown with rape early in 
the Spring with a light dressing of man¬ 
ure well harrowed in will furnish fine 
pasture when most needed. I have 
plowed up parts of an old meadow after 
the hay was cut, top-dressed it with 
manure, sowed rape on August 1 and 
had fine pasture through November. We 
of course always sow rape in the corn at 
the last cultivation, and this comes on 
finely after the corn is cut. 
Last season there came a very heavy 
fall of snow in November, so that the 
rest of the sheep had to be put on Win¬ 
ter rations, but the lambs went to the 
cornfield every fine day, • and as the 
snow settled and thawed, dug the rape 
out of it with great gain to themselves 
and as great a saving to the haymow. 
With fresh succulent food thus provided 
April lambs may be weaned in July, and 
thus give the ewes a chance to recuper¬ 
ate, even though they have to remain in 
the old pasture. With such care and 
the results obtained the hired man can 
“hit the pike” most any Sunday and yet 
not compel the boss to stay at home. It 
THK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
was but a few days ago that the writer 
was driving eight miles from home at 
six P. M. and smiled to himself to see 
the other fellows “drive home the cows.” 
Eagle Bridge, N. Y. c. c. P. 
DAIRY COWS. 
Dairy cows are very scarce aucl high in 
price. The average price runs from $60 
to $80 for ordinary cows. c. a. l. 
Macungie, Pa. 
The dairymen in this section have no 
reason to complain, although the percentage 
of profit on milk to-day is not what an 
outside observer, and, in fact, one who is 
in the business, would think it would be 
As to the drought we have had none, 
though nowadays it is impossiole to keep 
up the milk supply without heavily feeding 
all the months, excepting June and July. 
One great factor in the cost of piodueing 
milk is that old pastures that cannot be 
tilled are getting so they are almost worth¬ 
less. Crops in this section are exceedingly 
good, and plenty of roughage for slock next 
Winter. The concentrated feeds nave to 
be bought and fed with the stuff we raise 
in order to get a fair yield of milk per 
cow, and there is where we again see our 
profits leak away, but would like to say 
right here that if farmers in general 
would resort to. more head work, the thing 
I think they are commencing to compre¬ 
hend, their conditions would be wonderfully 
changed. f. t. m. 
Burr’s Mills, N. Y. 
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