SILAGE MILK ALL RIGHT

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 63

SILAGE MILK ALL RIGHT

It is true that some misguided officials of certain milk condensing factories have objected to receiving milk from cows fed upon ensilage (says an American paper), but this prejudice has been demonstrated to be entirely without foundation. There are other condensing factories that use ensilage-made milk right along, and have no trouble with it. A few years ago we ran across a cheese factory in southern Wisconsin that had refused to receive milk during the summer from a given herd, because the cows had bean fed ensilage the winter before. This simply illustrates the ridiculous extremes to which such chings are often carried. The cheese factory had experienced some difficulty in the manufacture of its cheese, and, not being able to discover the cause, had loaded the blame on to the silage although none had been fed for weeks. Such attempts as the above, on the part of ignorant persons, to discredit with consumers the milk made from ensilage is a great injustice to the producer, as it tends to debar him from the use of one of the best forms of feed for milk production. It has been amply demonstrated that good ensilage, properly fed, imparts no injurious effect to the milk. Silage is one of the most healthful foods that can be used during me winter, when otherwise the cow would he on dry feed, and there is no question but that the most- healthy cow will give the most healthful milk.