Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-02-10
NEW INDUSTRY FOR WAUSAU
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various forms, supply the bodily heat
| and the fats as found The fats ia
ken in their natural state are utilized
to supply heat and also are the
source of the animal fats, meats and
milk. Any one of the ingredients
mentioned will sustain the life of an
animal for some time when used ex-
clusively as fodder but only a well
balanced ration, one that contains the
above mentioned ingredients in the
right proportion will give good re-
suits in all of the directions men,
toned, sustain and stimulate growth,
produce meat and milk and replace
waste. The Wisconsin Balanced Ra-
ton calls for a minimum content of
protein 2.2%o, carbohydrates 1882,
fats 10 and roughage 171%. AS a
rule is to feed forty pounds of sill
age per head per day, in a we'll bal
anced silage ration the above pro-
portions should be met approximately
by mixing the silage crops mentioned.
Fundamentals
In SLIDING a crop, choose a mix
ture that contains all the necessary
ingredients, preferably one that can
be planted, harvested and sliced to-
gether, thus reducing labor. Make
certain that enough labor is engaged
so that all the different lines move
along without friction. Add suffiic-
lent moisture, if necessary, to in
sure good packing. Use the walk
ing Silage Tamper" to insure even,
thorough and firm packing, thus ex-
polling as near as possible all the air
contained in the loose fodder and con-
fidently rely on a good, sweet and
nutritious silage of which you can
feed your stock as much as they will
eat without any danger of overfeed-
ing. Remember, where there is moth
ing else, there is air.
SOiling Crops
How many are familiar with this
expression? To great many it will
suggest crop to be plowed under
for the purpose of enriching the soil.
They are mistaken, for by that ex-
preston is meant crop that will ma
ture sufficiently within fifty to seven
ty days and its purpose is to feed
stock during season of pasture
shortage, occurring frequently from
the middle of the month of August
~shN Al AOPbCAhOCIs AS Tic SllOS are,
as rule, empty at this time of the
season recourse to them can not be
had and on the dry feedavailable COWS
soon run down in their milk supply.
III order to meet such a contingency
a crop of peas and oats combined,
sown the latter part of May and cut
when the stems show yellowish
stain in August, made into hay to
feed during the days of drought, will
sustain the milk flow. Instead of the
oats, barley may be sown and the re-
resulting crop sliced and fed imme-
diaely. Should any remain united when
the silo is to be filled for the winter,
the new fodder may be placed on top.
If the Walking Silage Tamper" was
used when SLIDING the first crop there
need be no doubt but that it will be
found in first class condition when
fed the following spring.
Air Leaks in The SiIO
Some silos leak the juice during the
fermentation process, such leakage
often being of an amount to endanger
the completing of the ferment period.
These leaks constitute a menace to
the silos contents and should be done
away with, for where water can leak
out, air will leak in and although the
danger of the same penetrating very
far into the silage where the walk
ing Silage Tamper" was used is slight
for the reason that the firm packing
will not permit it to penetrate very
far still waste will incur. Fodder
in an immature state is not only
a good stock food but it carries
with it the danger of reduc-
ing the general tone of the animal
tissue In such depressed state the
animal is much more likely to con-
tract diseases than when in a vigor-
Gus condition and the disease stock
men have most to fear is tuberculosis,
so disastrous when appearing in a
herd.
How to Feed Good SiIage.
Good silage and that means silage
made of the various crops in such
proportions as to balance the deffi-
cheney of one by the sufficiency of
the other, should be fed TO repletion,
that is, there should be no hard and
fast rule as to the amount, but each
animal should be given all it will eat
clean. Actual account should/be kept
of the amount of the milk flow and
the percentage of cream. With
these figures as a guide the feeder
must feed more or less as is indicated
and when necessary add grains, for
it must be remembered that animals
frequently differ as widely as indi-
viduals and the same holds true as to
the capacity in which feed can be di-
gested and assimulated. AS the dairy
COW is the main reliance of income
on Wisconsin farms, it should receive
proper attention, for after all, it is
only a factory" and the output de-
perd on the amount and kind of feed
consumed Time has proven that the
fertility of soils depends upon the
amount of plant nutriment contained
in them for production, likewise a
producing animal depends on the kind
and amount of food. With a silo work
ing at its full capacity the problem of
feeding stock Is simplified and in a
measure brought within reasonable
limits. Should one or more of your
cows, especially of the better breeds,
let up on production, do not hastily
conclude that her usefulness has
ended but try a change Of feeds.
This may restore the milk flow and
her value as producer.
The writer feels that although Wis
consin as a state is well in the lead
in dairying, a great deal more can be
accomplished and that with the pres
ent strong movement looking TO the
upbuilding Of the herds by means
of the better Sire campaign, the fact
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