Facts About the Silo

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1916, Page 3

Facts About the Silo

Twenty yeais' experience in the use of tile s:lo hius brought out some facts about which one and all are agreed:— 1. bhat a large amount of. healthful cattle lood can be preserved in the silo iii better condition, with less expense of labour and land, than by any other method unown. 2. That silage comes nearer being a 1 perfect substitute for the succulent food; 1 of the posture than any other food that can be had in the winter. 3. Thirty pounds a day it, enough silage for any average-sized Jersey cow. Larger cattlc will cat more. 4. A cubic foot of silage from the middle of a medium sized silo will average about 151b. weight. 5. For 182 days, or luff a year, an average Jersey cow will require about isix I.olls of silage, allowing for unavoidable waste. <j. The circular silo made of good hardwood staves is cheapest and. best. • 7. Fifteen feet is a good diameter and twenty feet a good depth. Such a eilo will hold about two hundred tons of silage, cut in luiif-inch lenghts. 8. Maize just'passing out of the roast ing-ear stage is the best single material for silage. Maize anil cow-peas are the best combined materia'* in cow-pea regions. I). Silage is alav.ys as valuable ill sum mer as in the winter. 10. The silo has come to be as (necessary a part of the dairy-farm plant as a cron crib or a hay mow. — "Jersey Bulletin."