Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1912 — Stock Cattle and Silage. [ARTICLE]

Stock Cattle and Silage.

Good silage, with alfalfa and clover hay, has been found during ten years’ experienced by Ohio feeder to carry an 800-pound steel through the winter on 40 pounds of Allage and 5 pounds of clover hay, costing 6 cents and 1 cent respectively, with silage at 12.50 and hay at 25 per ton. This is a cost of sl-80 per month and an average Cffpt for winter gain of 4 cents a pound, when gaining 35 to 50 pounds a month. Cattle are In good shape at rise of grass to go on pasture and can he finished for midsummer mfeykets when they are not crowded.