Corn ensilage is without a rival in providing winter succulence for cows.
When ensilage is fed, admixture will result sufficiently if the meal is thrown over the ensilage where it has been put into the mangers.
Even when grass is abundant, cows will eat with avidity more or less of ensilage well made.
There is no doubt but that long fodder will keep just as well as that which is cut up, and I am not at all certain but such ensilage is even better in some cases than that made by cutting up the stalks into small pieces.
The ensilage is placed in front of the animals directly from the cart with great rapidity.
Twenty-five cows will eat up the ensilage about as fast as one man can get it out.
It is intended that the ensilage carrier shall pass up through the window so that the ensilage will fall over the partition and can be deposited in either one of the two compartments by means of a slanting chute.
No marked difference was noted between the ensilage from this and that from the other corn.
Endeavor to have the inside of the silo smooth and perpendicular from top to bottom, with no jogs or shoulders upon which the ensilage can catch or drag.
No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible.
The ensilage is pitched into a cart with forks and the cart driven into the feeding barn between the two rows of cows which stand facing each other.
It may be built adjoining the feeding barn with the doors so placed that the ensilage be conveyed directly to the cattle, or if that is not possible, place it where the ensilage can be conveyed by a car or cart.
Dairy weights of ensilage fed to the stock were not taken.
Hay and feed stores abounded in neighboring towns but most dairymen attempted to supply their own straw, ensilage and grain, thus cutting costs by making the most efficient use of their land.
As previously mentioned, Fairfax County also possessed soil types which worked up well and produced high yields of the pasturage and ensilage crops required to support large dairy herds.
The leaves and stalks were ground for ensilage or stored in the shock for dry fodder.
On a large farm up to twenty men were needed to keep a threshing machine or ensilage cutter going.
Bundles of corn were chopped by the machine and then conveyed to a fan which blew the ensilage through a pipe into the silo.
To do this stalks and leaves of the corn were chopped by an ensilage cutter.
The use of ensilage as a feed for beef and milk production has become so general in Illinois since the first silo was built in 1881 that ensilage is now one of the staple feeds.
While there are a few people who still think that the use of ensilage in the production of beef is a fad, practically every one agrees that it is economical in the production of milk.
The stories that the paper told about the value of ensilage as a feed sounded too good to be true.
It has been abundantly proved that ensilage forms a wholesome and nutritious food for cattle.
The ensilage is said to be "more or less good, according to taste.
It was fall and I thought ensilage was seasonable and they ought to know about it if they didn't.
Sylvia had no idea what ensilage was, but she knew it must be something amusing or Mrs. Owen would not have laughed so heartily.
Fresh, green grass or sound ensilage may be fed in small quantities.
What has been said with reference to clover ensilage will apply almost equally to alfalfa.
The making of clover into ensilageis discussed in the book "Soiling Crops and the Silo" by the author.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the cost of ensilage in the Northern states ranges from $1.
On the alluvial lands of Southern Louisiana it has been proved that ensilage can be produced at 50 cents to $1.
The modern system of ensilage dates from about 1875, but the practice was known to the ancient Romans, and the system has been common in Mexico for centuries.
Such advantages are claimed for it, as that in a wet season grass can be made into ensilage instead of hay, and that there is little loss of nutritive elements, while it has great feeding powers.
Successful experiments have shown that green fodder may be converted into ensilage without a pit by simply piling up and consolidating by pressure.
We'll probably have the best ensilage that will be put up this year.
A blower type ensilage cutter with the necessary pipe for filling the silo and leather belt for driving it by the tractor, were selected.
The crops best adapted for use as ensilage grow well, making large yields.
Oats and vetches for ensilage purposes yield five to seven tons per acre.
Corn ensilagewith clover hay will constitute a proper feed.
When the ensilage is curing, it often gets warm, but never anywhere near the point of combustion.
Also, the deeper a silo is, the tighter the ensilage is packed and the more will be contained in a cubic foot.
It is cut with a proper ensilage cutter into half or three-quarter inch lengths.
Will Egyptian corn make good ensilage and at what time should it be cut to make the best feed for dairy cows?
Will ensilage (corn, oats) keep well in a silo of those dimensions?
With fair cultivation, will an acre produce about 10 tons of ensilage without fertilization - it being bottom land?
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