SILAGE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 10

SILAGE

POINTS IN favour: -Summarised, the points in favour of wlage are as follows:—;. 1 •■-1. More feed can bo stored in a given space in the form of silage than in the JoVin .0f,..,, fodder - or - hay. --2 There'' is a smaller loss of food material; when a crop is made'into silage than when curcd as fodder or bay ,3. Cdrii silage is a moro' than corn fodder. 4. An acre corn ciin be placed in the'silo.lat less cost than the same area can _bChusked and shredded. 5. Crops" can* bo-put in the silo driring weather 'that' could'not bo u'tilisid ill making hSjs-* or, curirtg fod-. der. ;■ 6. More stock can lie kept on. a given area of land.when silage is -the basis-of the rittion. ;?■. 'Iliero is'less waste', in feeding silage-'than in feeding fodder. Good silago;£rdi>c'rly fed is nil consumed. Silage, is,'.very palatable. l ; 9. Silage,, feeds," ■has a:beneficiillj6ff<ict',up()n .tho-/digost'ivo' organs. bos't |orm jitqan. be can bo us&'for* moro . ecoiiimiitally 'tten - can; soiling crops, because ,;it, requires.'-less and silage is;tri6re :palatable.:.'.;l2.' Ctinreirting the into} silage, clears the land anJ>leayeS' •ft v «eady-viof J-arf; othbr crop.