Sunflower Silage For Dairy Cows

Author : William Barbour Nevens
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331608151
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Sunflower as a Silage Crop written by William Barbour Nevens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sunflower as a Silage Crop: Feeding Value for Dairy Cows; Composition and Digestibility When Ensiled at Different Stages of Maturity III beginning the experimental work at this Station, a field was planted to Mammoth Russian sunflowers on May 18, 1921. The rows were 3 feet 6 inches apart and the plants averaged about 10 inches apart in the row. Three wooden stave silos, each 10 feet by 24 feet in size, and roofed, were used for ensiling the crop. The first cutting was made on August 13, eighty-seven days from the time of planting, and was ensiled in Silo No. 8. At that time about 23 percent of the plants were coming into bloom; that is, they plainly showed the yellow rays of the heads, and most of the rest of the plants were in the bud stage. The estimates' of the proportion of the plants in bloom were made by actual count of the number of blossoms in one row of the sunflowers (about one-fourth mile in length) upon the day of filling the silo. The leaves on only the lower two or three feet of the stalks had died. The plants contained so much water that soon after they were ensiled, a large quantity of juice oozed out around the doors and at the bottom of the Silo.l This silage was subjected to leaching by rains, a total of inches falling before the roof of the silo had been completed. A second cutting was made on September 1 and 2, 106 days from the time of planting, when approximately 95 percent of the plants were in bloom. At that stage nearly one-half of the leaves on the plants had been killed by rust. These plants contained a smaller per centage of water than those ensiled August 13. Only a small amount of juice was lost by leakage from the Silo (silo No. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.