. Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent;. the thickness suggested. Once sealed in the silo, the silage will keep indefinitely withoutmaterial changes after the first few weeks. Instances are on recordof silage a dozen years old or more having been found of excellentquality and eaten by stock with great relish. If a silo is not com-pletely emptied by next filling time, the new crop may be placed di-rectly on top of the old silage; if this is carefully leveled off immedi-ately before filling there will be no spoiled silage at the juncture of thetwo crops. In emptying the silo it is convenient and,
. Concrete stave silos, Brooks patent;. the thickness suggested. Once sealed in the silo, the silage will keep indefinitely withoutmaterial changes after the first few weeks. Instances are on recordof silage a dozen years old or more having been found of excellentquality and eaten by stock with great relish. If a silo is not com-pletely emptied by next filling time, the new crop may be placed di-rectly on top of the old silage; if this is carefully leveled off immedi-ately before filling there will be no spoiled silage at the juncture of thetwo crops. In emptying the silo it is convenient and, in case of outside silosalmost necessary, to provide a chute or conveyor through which thesilage may be thrown directly into the feed truck or the wagon. Thesilage should be placed before the stock in one or two handlings andshould not be allowed to dry out appreciably before being eaten by theanimals, as it will otherwise lose some of its palatability. In the caseof weedy alfalfa silage and barley silage the foxtail and barley heads,. J. M. Benoit, Modesto a Wonderful Herd of Cattle, and His 12 x 35 Brooks Stave SiloIs Equally Good. BROOKS PATENT CONCRETE STAVE SILO 11 respectively, will soon dry out, if left exposed, at least in hot weather,and will be likely to injure the mouths of the animals, especially ifsiloed at a rather advanced stas;e of maturity. Feeding Silage Silage makes an excellent feed for dairy cows, fattening cattle andsheep, and is also fed to advantage in small quantities to other classesof farm animals. The following amounts of well-preserved Indian cornsilage may be fed safely to the different classes of live stock, somewhatsmaller amounts of other kinds of silage being given, viz : Dairy cows, twenty-five to forty pounds per head daily. Heifers and young beef stock, ten to twenty pounds. battening steers and beef cows, twenty to thirty pounds. Horses, five to ten pounds. Wintering work horses, ten to twenty pounds. Sheep, two to three pounds. Brood sows
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