The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
Results ofFeedlng Ensiisge.

For long time, says Isaac Budlong
a New York state farmer, In Hoard'i
Dairyman, II was preiidiced against
silos, perpetually theorizing against
them. But the evidences coming SO
overwhelmingly in their favor, that !
built, last summer, an experimental
one. filed it with York state field corn
raised in the usual method, letting it
get nearly ripe: did not open my silo
until nearly midwintef. Previous to
feeding any silage | was feeding my
cows ten pounds each of corn meal and
bran OF equal parts, at a cost of one
cent per pound, supplented with all the
good hay they could eat, estimated at
eighteen pounds each at So per ton.
Selecting from my herd two among my
best butter cows; Jersey and Short
horn, that dropped their calves in Octo-
Der previous. | weighed and kept a rec=
ord of these two cows milk for twenty
eight days ending January 81. l found
the Jersey had given 359 pounds, the
/ Shorthorn 46l pounds. Total pounds OF
milk for twenty eight days ON hay and
meal. $40. The milk was set i'm Cooley
creamer and made into creamery but
tcr-5l pounds-and sold at 81 cents
per pound-sl6.32; 352 quarts Of
SKINNED and buttermilk sold at / cent
per quart-S3.50 Sales for the twenty
ty-eight days of January, sl9.S2. Cost
OF keep for hay for twenty-eight days,
thirty-six pounds per day at So per ton,
81, OF; twenty-eight days on meal at 20
cents, $500: total cost of feed, S.. 60. Ad-
vance for twenty eight days above cost
of feed, Slf.20.
ION the first Of February l withheld
the meal from these two cows; giving
them fifty pounds of silage each, with
all the hay they could eat: no Other
feed. On this feed the Jersey gave in
twenty-eight days 393 pounds of milk,
the ShorihOru gave sol pounds. Total
weight of milk in twenty-eight days on
silage and hay, S94 pounds. Amount o!
butter made, 55i pounds: sold at 81 cents
per pound. Sl7.S4. SKINNED milk and
buttermilk sold-3S0 quarts-at | cent
per quart, $3.50 Total sales for the
twenty eight days in February on silage,
s2I.6t. Cost of keep-l00 pounds of sill.
age at 10 cents per hundred for twenty.
eight days-or 2.SG0 at 10 cents per hun.
dred-S2. SO; thirty-siX pounds of hay for
twentv-eight DAYS, at ST per ton, S3.02.
Total cost of feed, 1882. Advance sales
over cost OF feed: SIS. 81.
Il found | not only sustained these
two cows on silage and hay twenty.
eight days for s.. 50 less than it cost to
sustain them twenty-eight days on meal
and hay, but the COWS gave seventy.
four pounds more milk, and the pro
duct sold for 1872 more money. found
there was profit OF $3.50 plus $l.S2
which is S4.62, in feeding these two
cows twenty-eight days on silage and
hay, as compared with feeding them
the same number of days on meal and
hay. Or if divide the $4.62 by fifty.
six. the number of days kept on silage
and hay, have ST cents rs profit
daily on each days keep on silage and
hay as compared to keeping them on
meal and hay.
"Well, now, according to Colburn, ii
there is profit of st cents on one days.
keep, it follows that there would be 17(
times that on a lI0 days keep about the
usual number of winter feeding days OF
SI4. Amounting to considerable sun
with large dairy of cows. I am Sc
well pleased with my silo experience
that | am now building four more addi
tional silos with strong capacity O. |
fully 400 tons. and expect to fill then
with corn, having seventy-five acres O.
corn on the way"