The weekly examiner., 1891-01-17
A CONVERT TO slLAoE.

A Farmer Who Finally Comes to Believe
 In It.
 For years, says a writer in the Breed. CTS Gazette, have fed and handled corn stalks for feeding and never con. sidered the stover to be very good un. less fed early in the winter, as it gets so tough and dry that cattle do not rel tsh 1t. Corn grown for feed and not for the grain used to consider very good Tiff cut on the green side, wilted a day or two, then set up in shocks about six feet in diameter and the tops caeefuHy tied so as to keep out all the rain and snow. It will. if run through feed cutter, be all 5eatensup and relished by cattle till sabont March. After th4s 1t begins to get too dry and tough. But never saw fodder,corn able to be kept in barn or even in very big shocks fi saved in the state1 have been used tn having it, because 1t would always hest and mold. a1a
 From the past winters experience with corn silage I still believe;that corn. fodder handled aSsI have mentioned H ss good as silage till about March, bra when the weather begins to get warfd the stock want food like roots, and thH Istlo gives food very much like theMl. and then certainly prefer corn silagS to dry fodder-corn. Toward spring the cattle would not est the straw but ata grain, roots and silage. These were mixed together all winter and weighed to each animal, also all the leavinR& A few head left some silage for day. lothers none; no cattle were fed silaRA lentfrely, and neither had any corn. fodder to feed, so have no figures for comparison. sF Fs!;
 have fed the saue silage every day with the exception of parts of June and July, to cattle of five different pure breeds, numbering from twenty to taszrty-fve head. kept in the barn all snzuner and getting on sn average over eDety pounds tor two feeds) of silage a &@w, and at noon some kind of green Apod. The latter was on wet days re- yssced by hayt and am now-August
 s-s<tu feeding a like amount of silage with feed e9 green corn at noon. I @m posfH9vo tlsa& with corn-stalks saved in sny other way that know of but the sf1o I could never have kept the cattle fin the shape they arc in. Tho little inrass we have at this experiment. sta- tscn fs not veRy good; some of the cattle turned out when 1t was at it's best, though Aoe en1y a few weeks, lost in weight, wtffs nearly all kept in have shown a gain every month
 Many lock at the silo with the idea that an animal must eat certain amount of dry matter day, to get which amount by silage they would have to eat aneDormous and impossible Iquant4ty. Now all who have ever been to or come from the 'stight little isle," we'll know what lot of roots are fed there, and The Gazette, I remember, once published feeding trial made by Professor Brown Ontario Experiment lStatien) e& heavy grain ration versus roots alone. and the poot-fed lot did best. I do not visa to infer that it is best to feed 8 large amount of watery feed, but it is certainly an advantage to feed part succulent I also believe that 1t is not good plan to feed too much silage, but as 8 part ration it is certainly a good and pelisaed feed. There is an old saying that 'A bushe1 of roots in the spszng as worth two before Christmas,s 's1d tAizk tho same may be said of