Apr. 19, 1924 
Ensiling Sudan Grass with a Legume 
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CONCLUSIONS 
There was little difference in keeping quality among the silages studied. The 
legumes ensiled alone produced as normal a silage as the mixtures. Sudan grass 
produced a silage which appeared as normal as the others, but as it did not pack 
so firmly it yielded a larger amount of spoiled silage. 
The legumes were slightly more palatable than the mixtures, and the Sudan 
grass was very much less palatable than the rest of the silages. 
Outside of the Sudan grass silage, which was very low in protein, and soybean 
silage, which was low in nitrogen-free extract, the differences in chemical compo¬ 
sition did not indicate any marked superiority of one silage over another. How¬ 
ever, if there was any silage better than another on the basis of chemical compo¬ 
sition, it was the cowpea silage. The mixtures were practically as good as the 
legumes, except in protein content, but no better. 
The legumes showed a greater actual loss of albuminoid protein and therefore 
of feeding value than the mixtures. Soybean silage showed a greater loss of 
feeding value in nitrogen-free extract than the soybean-Sudan grass mixture. 
Sudan grass alone showed the least loss of these valuable feed constituents. 
It does not seem necessary, from this study, for the production of good silage 
to ensile together a crop high in protein with one high in carbohydrates. The 
crop carrying a large percentage of carbohydrates usually takes care of itself in 
the silo; and the high-protein crop, if wilted so as to contain the proper moisture 
content, also produces a satisfactory silage. 
