The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-02
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Mr.. John Gould of Ohio, one of the
best authorities on dairy matters in the
United States after using the siIo for
nine years is more than ever convinced
that there is nothing better than en-
silage for dairy feed for both summer
and winter. A recent issue of the
Rural New Yorker contains his latest
views on the subject:
The confession" of c. E. Chapman,
that all roads for the economical feed
ing of cattle, especially COWS, end at
the Sllo, is valuable reading for those
VINO have been waiting for eight wears
10 see the outcome of the silo fad, and
have tried everything they could hear
OF as a substitute for ensilage, to aban-
don each IN turn, and in the doing, put
iar more labor into the venture than to
nave built and filed a silo. The fact is
that the most damaging evidence
against the Silo is from those who
never nave fed enSilage to their stock
ana pelleve that roots are cheaper and
better than sour corn fodder" AS
compared with roots, the Ohio station
found that 10 pounds of good ensiIage
were worth something more than twice
us weight in beetS or. roots, and that
while ensilage was a sustaining food
roots were little better than an appe-
tlzer, and really did not economics the
other food by the feeding.
w men 1t comes to the number of tons
weight from an acre, it can be figured
out that Is tons of ensilage to the
acre means 1000 bushels, 80 pounds
10 the buShel; and one must hustle
around to get 10000 pounds of roots
from an acre. Where men have silos
md that meadow hay is not held in
very hlgh esteem, as a reliance. and is
soiq ana the cows fed on a cheaper
ana, practically, better food. Hav is
Ieo 10 STOCK for its starch content-for
.he iuel IL contains to burn to keep up
podlly Warmth-and it, as meadows 90
is good acre of hay that sunnlies
mucn, II any. over 1,20O pounds of
actual starch, while an acre of ensiIa @e
with some ears, will supply from : nm
70 o,Vo0 pounds of actual fuel At the
new Jersey station a field of ensilage
corn last year, closely approached & 000
pouIos OF starch, and one can see read
lily that this acre was worth more than
i've times that of an acre of hav. and is
quite as digestible, and if fed in its s1,c-
cuient state, and conceding 10 per cent
loss IN heating in the pit it still iS
ahead by several thousand pounds.
Ihat ensifage of good quality is a fair
ration without other feed, fer cows ncI.
IN IN mlk, we put to the test a year ago.
Two dry COWS were fed from Dee
TIL spring on ensilage alone and three
or four pounds of cat straw each At
noon, with the result thar they came
out in form for butchers stock. and
were sold as such in late April, clearing
over 80 per head over fall prices for
the $50 bushels each of ensilage that
they consumed. From our standpoint
the greatest value of The silo is that
with warm, comfortable stable and
the Superintendent cows in If with
the stores of succulent food. there is
chance for the farmer to have a special
dairy season, and ar a, time when the
income from the farm is, as a rule.
small This dairy, giving summer
messes of milk, gives employment To
the farmer, and an income, and besides
the good feeding, makes good fertility,
which, If drawn to the fields and
spread where wanted every day, will
insure twice the manurial value of the
older hay fed methods. n
Nine winters use of the silo has con-
firmed, and more, all that Mr.. Chap