14— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 28. 1960 Make First Crop Silage County Agent Advises By; M. M. Smith. County Agent Dairy farmers are urged to consider. the practice of making part of their first cutting of hay into grass silage; granting that many producers continue to depend upon corn silage as one of their major quality roughages, it is still good insurance against drouth conditions this summer to have some grass silage on hand. Also, when most of our first cutting of grasses and legume are ready to cut the weather conditions are not favorable for good hay making. If the results from feeding grass silage have not been satisfactory, dairymen are urged to consider the .follow ing practices to improve quality and to reduce the seepage problems (1) Return to the practice of wilting the forage crop before putting into the silo; (2) Add a pre servative to direct-cut forage; and (3) Do not direct-cut for age when wet with dew or rain. Many quality silage pro ducers are returning to the practice of wilting the forage for several hours after mow ing and before chopping for the silo; this will require from 2 to 4 hours depending upon the weather and the maturity of the crop. The goal is to reduce the mois ture content of the crop by wi ting from the usual 80-% down to 65 to 70%. A sim ple test to detect this amount of moisture in the field would be to grab a handful of the mowed forage in the field and give it a twist with your two hands; if no free moisture is left on your hands and ,if the twisted handful slowly uncoils, then it is about right for the 65 to 70% moisture condition. After some experience, i ( is quite common that top quality grass silage may be made by using the wilting method without any added preservative. Many experi enced producers throughout the country have continued to have success using only the wTting practice. However, it is suggested that producers trying the wilting system for the first time, that lower amounts ol feed preservatives could be addel to obtain proper fer mentation High moisture Any Dairy Farmer that reads this ad and is interested in putting on a few good Wisconsin milk cows to step up your milk production, please drop us a card right away giving your name, location and telephone number and we will contact you right a way at your farm. Look your herd over and check them over closely and cull out your beef to make room for good cows We have a very good market for your culls and any kind of beef cows that you might want to trade. We are receiving 2 to 5 trailer loads a week from Wisconsin. Delivery can be arranged for most anywhere in Pennsylvania right to your farm. If you would prefer to take a drive over to our cattle farms take the Penna Turnpike which leads on to the N J. Turnpike then get off at N J Exit no 5 turn right towards Mount Holly, and stop at first gas station and telephone us and our fieldman will come and lead you over to our catt’e farms Our cattle farms are located on each side of Highway 206, IV2 miles this side of Vincen town, N J or about 6 miles from N J Turnpike Exit no 5 Look for eight silos, 4 si'os on each side of highway, also telephone us the night before for an appointment to meet us I. Greenberg & Son Route 206 Mount Holly, N J Telephone: Mount Holly, N J. AMherst 7-1101 rate is similar to the ear corn amount. The above a mounts are for stands of le gumes such as alfalfa, clov er, or trefoil; grass-legume mixtures would require a boQt 25 percent less preser vative, and grass stands 35 percent less. Liquid molasses should be used at the rate of 60 pounds on legumes and 30 pounds per ton on grass. Farmers continuing to dir ect cut will face a seepage problem and face lower quality silage because of ex cess moisture With this method chopping should not be done when the prop is wet with dew or rain; this mere’y makes the problem worse and usually', ends up with a silage too high in moisture for top quality. Chemical preservatives such as Sodium Bisulphite at the rate of 6 to "8 pounds per Ear Corn as Preservative ton are still recommended as „ , an economical preservative. Since ear corn is one of y/ith some wilting on the the cheapest sources of feed, cro p g 00( j results have been and very common on most experience d with reduced farms, it is one of the most the bisulphite. popular preservatives; at the „ TT ~ „ . rate of 200 pounds per ton it Time of Harvesting is one will reduce seepage, aid in ° f the *”f est preservation, and increase fencing the Quality of both the energy content of grass and s ‘ silage made by the direct-cut and grass stands metlod; if some wilting * done, the amount may be re- grasses when the duced; with proper wilting heads are emerSfi from no preservative should be f he d boot of the ste ® <f n later ne e cuttings of alfalfa the crops content of the direct-cut for age has always required the need of extra .preservatives; without this extra moisture (wilting) the need -for pre servatives is reduced if not eliminated. Other feed additives such should be permitted to reach as ground barley, oats, rye, 50% bloom.* Wheat, barley, wheat, or dried beet pulp or and oats made into silage or citrus pulp, molasses feeds, hay should be cut when soybean hull bran, or plain header and the grains in the molasses may be used; the milk stage. As the crops gets taaßßßaaßaßßaaaßßaißßaaaßßaaßaEaßaaaaaßaßaißa Bulk Spreading Service FERTILIZER and LIMESTONE Dovco "Granular" Fertilizer Webb Super-Gro Balanced organic fertilizer, Rock Phosphate Phosphorus Green Sand Potash If you need fertilizer call us- SMUCKER BROS. Leola OL 6-2229 Z ■ BIRD-IN-HAND. PA. PIONEER Milk Replacer Don't overlook the growth, health and money-saving benefits offered by VIG-R-CALF as a milk replacer for your calves. VIG-R-CALF is simple to prepare, easy to feed and grows calves faster for less. See us today for complete details on the PIONEER VIG-R-CALF Milk Replacer Program Joseph M. Good & Sons LEOLA QUARRYVILLE DEALERS FOR jj C« jts . 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M&B (W E Diefendor or, contributing to .hit prob lem some of which have L ' ngacrC) Inc 18-5 ’43" W been discussed in this article Myer, 1300 WVP, 13-6, W r Local growers are urged to Mellinger & Son, 22 0’ L keep these points in mind toward the effort to improve the quality of their grass silage • Lancaster Poultry (From page 31 30 Robert Long, 430 L-F, 17 Mo , Walter Lehman, 12 - 3; 31 John B Kurtz (Sam Burkho’der), 1000 L-F, 17 Mo , Victor J Koser Co , Inc 15 1, 32 Garden Spot Broil ers (Melvin Barge Jr) 3500 IR, 8-6, NO SALE, 18 5 bid, 33. Same, 34 M&B (Elmer D. Leaman, 7000 WV, 9-3, S E. Davis, 18 7; 35 Mark Myer, 2500 WVC, 13-6, Carl B. Risser, 23 4, 36 Same, 700 WVP, 14 2, CHAIN SAW SERVICE CENTER Ne-w & Used Snovely's Farm Service NEW HOLLAND CL 4-2214 L niiimumHiiHiii 9 2 - Myers row 1 - Myers row 200 gal. Myers 12 Vi gal. Myers' wheelbarrow power sprayer 600 gal. Oliver PTO sprayer with 16 row booms 500 gal. Bean PTO sprayer - 35 G.P.M. pump 400 gal. 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