. Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent;. early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy
. Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent;. early as well by cattle as Indian cornsilage. It is eaten in somewhat smalleramounts than this, e. g., for dairy cows twentyto twenty-five pounds per head daily is an aver-age feed. In Kansas it was found that kafirsilage ranked second to corn silage as a feedfor dairy cows and that it is better than sorg-hum silage for the production of milk. In dry,hot sections, where the grain sorghums giverelatively large yields and where Indian corncan not be successfully grown, these crops willdoubtless assume great importance in thefuture as silage crops on dairy and other stockfarms. In trials at the University Farm atDavis, the largest yields have so far beenobtained from dwarf milo, feterita, and browndurra (Egyptian corn), in the order given. Alfalfa is used only to a limited extent as asilage crop. There is ordinarily no difficultyin making it into good hay under the condi-tions present in the western States where this G. A. Allen, Modesto, Calif., Owns ThisJO x 30 Brooks Slave BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO crop grows to best advantage and is of the greatest economic impor-tance. It is, however, made into silage by many farmers, especially incase of the first and last cuttings. Since foxtail (Hordewm murinum )is often a serious pest in alfalfa fields during the early part of the sea-son, the first crop is siloed by some farmers, and the foxtail thus ren-dered harmless; the beards remain soft in the silage and do not causetrouble to the animals eating it, as is generally the case when this cropis made into hay, especially if cut rather late when the foxtail heads arenearly ripe. Silage from such weedy alfalfa will be of good quality ifput up in accordance with the directions given and is often better thanthat from pure alfalfa. The last crop of alfalfa is also sometimes siloedin the western States, owing to the rainy weather that is likely toprevail at this time, rendering it difficult to make hay from this
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