FACTS ABOUT THE SILO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1901, Page 4

FACTS ABOUT THE SILO.

Twenty years' experience (a the age of the silo has brought out come facts about which one and all are agreed: 1. That a larger amount of healthful cattle food can be preserved in the silo in better condition, with less expense of labor and land, than by any other method known. 2. That silage comes nearer being a perfect substitute for the succulent fool of the pasture than any other f .o4 that can be had in winter, 3. Thirty pounds a day is enough silage for an average eiiad Jersey cow, li'iT'er cattle will more. 4. A cubic foot ensilage from the middle of a medium sizsd silo will average about 45lbs weighs 5. For 182 d«ya, or half a year, aa average Jersey oow will require about six tons of silage, allowing fo* unavoidable waste. 6. Th 9 circular silo made of good hardwocd staves is cheapest and beat. 7. Fift9en f96t is a good diameter and twenty feet a good depth. Such a silo wi'l hold about two hundred tons cf silage, cut ia half inch lengths Silage just passing out of the roasting ear stage is the best material (or silage. Oorn and cow pea? are the best combined materials in eow pet regions. 9. Silage h always as valuable in summer as in the winter, 10. The it'o has come to be as Decenary a part of the dairy farm plant as a oora crib or a hay mow.— Jersey Bulletin.