. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. 34 CONCRETE SILOS purposes. Good silage fed in moderate quantity in connection with grain and some dry roughage makes a very satisfactory ration for any class of cattle. "It would not pay to build a silo for hog feeding only, because the hog is not able to handle a large quantity of bulky feed. The stomach of the hog is small and they must be supplied with a large proportion of concen- trated material like corn, wheat, shorts, etc. For best results in fattening hogs, it would be
. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. 34 CONCRETE SILOS purposes. Good silage fed in moderate quantity in connection with grain and some dry roughage makes a very satisfactory ration for any class of cattle. "It would not pay to build a silo for hog feeding only, because the hog is not able to handle a large quantity of bulky feed. The stomach of the hog is small and they must be supplied with a large proportion of concen- trated material like corn, wheat, shorts, etc. For best results in fattening hogs, it would be impractical to have the ration more than one-fifth bulky feed. Brood sows which have their growth can, of course, take a much larger quantity of such feed. For this reason it would not be profitable to give fattening hogs more than a small quantity of silage, not to exceed one pound per day to a 200-pound fattening hog. A brood sow weighing 300 pounds could use to advantage double that quantity. If you have enough cattle on the farm to make a silo worth while, it will no doubt pay to feed a small quantity each day to the hogs, otherwise ;—The Farmer, Saint Paul. Pea vines, once considered waste products, have been used very suc- cessfully in making silage and in fact this method is of benefit, as proved by the following extract from Hoard's Dairyman: "Pea blight is said to be due to a parasite fungus that winters on the „.. , vines and that it can be prevented by the simple expedient of ensiling the vines and feeding them to the ;—Hoard's Dairyman, Ft. No trouble about concrete block silos standing when empty. H. M. Ashfy of Geneva, Iowa, owns the silo illustrated above; built by G. C. Harvey of Geneva. Although empty, the concrete block silo of Dr. H. W. Tuttle of Adrian, Missouri, successfully resisted a cyclone which destroyed all surround- ing Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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