Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1912 — Ensilage for Steers. [ARTICLE]

Ensilage for Steers.

The Indiana experiment station'at Purdue has carried cm feeding tests with silage for several years past and Png lately published the data gathered. One of the facts that should be of value to every feeder of steers was that when corn silage was added to a ration of shelled corn, cottonseed meal and clover hay the result was a more rapid as well as a cheaper gain and a higher finish on the cattle; that

cattle fed corn qllage shed their coats earlier in the spring; that a smaller quantity of grain was consumed when silage was fed; that the steers receiving cottonseed meal and corn silage fattened more rapidly, required less finish, distributed the fat more evenly and brought a higher market price than similar cattle that did not receive the two feeds.