. Germain : [catalog] . oss of food material when a crop is made into silage, than when cured as fodder or silage is a better feed than corn fodder. An acre of corn can be placed in the silo at less cost than the same area can be husked and can be put in the silo during weather that could not be utilized in making hay or curing fodder. 6. More stock can be kept on a given area of land when silage is the basis of the ration. 7. There is less waste in feeding silage than in feeding fodder. Good silage properly fed is all consumed. 8. Silage is very palatable. 9. Silage, l
. Germain : [catalog] . oss of food material when a crop is made into silage, than when cured as fodder or silage is a better feed than corn fodder. An acre of corn can be placed in the silo at less cost than the same area can be husked and can be put in the silo during weather that could not be utilized in making hay or curing fodder. 6. More stock can be kept on a given area of land when silage is the basis of the ration. 7. There is less waste in feeding silage than in feeding fodder. Good silage properly fed is all consumed. 8. Silage is very palatable. 9. Silage, like other succulent feeds, has a beneficial effect upon the digestive organs. 10. Silage is the cheapest and best form in which a succulent feed can be provided for winter use. 11. Silage can be used for supplementing pasture more economically than can soiling crops, because it requiresless labor, and silage is more palatable. 12. Converting the corn crop into silage cleans the land and leaves it ready for another Hubam Clover is the new annual [17] white sweet clover. See page 52 - LOS ANGELES j^g&g&g^ CALIFORNIA BIG JIM CORN Germains Big Jim Corn has fulfilled our highest expectations. It has proven tobe the greatest corn ever introduced in the Southwest. It has met with unanimDusapproval as is evidenced by the hundreds ol testimonials that we are receiving—testi-monials from men who have grown corn for years in the com belt states. They saythey have never seen anything to equal it. It has outyielded every other varietygrown, some of the yields running as high as 100 bushels per acre. The ears of BigJim Corn, usually borne two on each stalk, average from 10 to 14 inches in length and8 inches in circumference. The kernels are a rich yellow and very large. The cobis proportionately small. The stalks attain an enormous height, bearing an abundanceof large leaves. For Ensilage Big Jim Corn produces such an enormous growth of stalks and leaves that we areconvinced that it
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