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THE RURAE. NEW-YORKER 
March 21, 
LEGUMES IN THE SILO. 
Two years ago we decided that by 
putting cow peas and Soy beans in the 
silo along with the corn we could make 
a feed richer in protein, and not so much 
concentrated feed would have to be 
bought to balance the cows’ rations. So 
in June several acres of cow peas were 
planted, and one acre of Soy beans, so 
that the two legumes would mature well 
enough and could be mixed with the 
corn going through the cutter. The Soy 
beans were planted in rows and culti¬ 
vated so that they attained a growth of 
nearly four feet, and possessed a heavy 
supply of green pods filled with seed at 
the time of cutting. The cow peas too, 
possessed plenty of seed when put into 
the silo. 
After filling the silo with a mixture of 
corn and cow peas the Soy beans were 
added near the top after the first night’s 
settling, and consequently the first sil¬ 
age fed was a mixture of one-half corn, 
one-fourth cow peas, and one-fourth Soy 
beans, and possessed according to the 
feeding table a higher percentage of pro¬ 
tein, but a lower amount of fat than does 
straight corn silage. The test at the 
manger however, was not as satisfactory 
as one could wish after going to the extra 
expense of growing the legume crops for 
silage. The cows did not give any more 
milk than when given a ration of corn 
silage, and it was necessary to feed as 
much cottonseed meal, apparently, with 
this mixed silage as with that entirely of 
corn. The mixed silage was more sour 
than ripe corn silage would have been, 
though the cows found it as palatable and 
ate it as greedily as they did ripe corn. 
However, there were a great many woody 
stems of the Soy beans that were left in 
the mangers. 
The conclusions that we have drawn 
from our experience with legumes fed 
in this way, and other dairymen have 
reached the same conclusion, is that it is 
much better to feed all the legumes dry 
as hay and fill the silo with ripe silage 
corn. Wherever corn can be well ma¬ 
tured on a few acres that have been fer¬ 
tilized until they will produce heavy 
yields of corn, the actual tonnage of sil¬ 
age per acre is much greater than can 
be obtained from the same land planted 
to any of the legume crops. The yield 
is enough greater to more than pay for 
the extra work of cultivating the corn 
crop, and the work of gathering the one 
crop of corn for the silo is much less ex¬ 
pensive. One writer giving his experi¬ 
ence with Alfalfa as a silage crop, states 
that it took from 10 to 12 acres of Al¬ 
falfa to fill a silo 12 by 30, the time ne¬ 
cessary to fill it was four days, and the 
cost of filling, $2 per ton. Experience 
shows that to fill the same sized silo with 
corn silage requires only from six to 
eight acres of corn and the cost is never 
over $1 a ton. 
Without doubt the expense of filling 
a silo with either Soy beans, cow peas 
or lied clover would be about the same 
as for Alfalfa and mixing them with 
corn undoubtedly raised the cost of fill¬ 
ing from $1 to $1.50 per ton, to say noth¬ 
ing of the expense of seeding and the de¬ 
creased yield per acre. 
Last year we filled the silo with ripe 
corn silage alone, and are feeding the 
legume crops as hay. The grain bill is 
no more than formerly, the silage being 
well matured is much better feed for the 
hogs, and the pigs find more grain in 
the litter, in fact nearly enough together 
with their skim-milk to make them a 
balanced ration. 
Legume crops, with their power to 
draw nitrogen from the air and deposit 
it in nodules on their roots, are valuable 
crops for the farm, and several of them 
should be grown if the fertility of the 
soil is to be maintained. However, for 
feeding purposes, farmers generally have 
found that the extra expense of putting 
them in the silo does not warrant their 
being used in this way to raise the pro¬ 
tein content of the silage. For prac¬ 
tical purposes it seems to be impossible 
for man to manufacture one single sub¬ 
stitute for Blue-grass which during the 
early Summer is termed “nature’s bal¬ 
anced ration.” ii. b. cobb. 
Jackson Co., Ohio. 
i “Where’s your engagement ring. Mar¬ 
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Plain Dealer. 
Contagious Abortion. 
What will prevent rurther abortion 
among a herd of cows? These cows are 
in good condition and the owner is at 
a loss to account for three successive 
abortions. Can you explain the cause of 
abortion and remedy for the future pre¬ 
vention? N. R. 
New York. 
Where abortions frequently follow each 
other in dairy herds the cause may usu¬ 
ally bo traced to an infectious disease, 
known as contagious abortion. This dis¬ 
ease is caused by a specific germ which 
obtains entrance to the circulatory sys¬ 
tem of the cow through the digestive 
tract or the reproductive organs. It 
causes the death and expulsion of the 
foetus, and carries the contagion to other 
cows through the medium of the dis¬ 
charges and the milk. The disease is also 
carried from one cow to another by the 
herd bull. No certain cure for this dis¬ 
ease has yet been discovered, though the 
use of methylene blue has recently been 
advocated, and good results have been 
reported from its use. Isolation of in¬ 
fected cows with disinfection of stables 
is necessary, and a competent veterinar¬ 
ian should be consulted when the disease 
has obtained entrance into a herd. 
M. B. D. 
“Do you understand what you are to 
swear to?” asked the court as a not 
over-intelligent looking negro took the 
witness stand. “Ycssah, Ah does. Ah’ra 
to swear to tell de truf.” “Yes,” said 
the judge; “and what will happen if you 
do not tell the truth?” “Well, sail,” was 
the hesitating answer, “Ah expects ouah 
side’ll win de case, sail.”—Ladies Home 
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When Pastures Get Low 
To secure the maximum results, stock should be fed 
green feed all the year round. Its succulence produces 
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if your silage is perfectly cured, 
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