SILAGE AND MILK

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6545, 18 November 1924, Page 5

SILAGE AND MILK

RESULTS OF ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS . , v The opinion is held by some farmers that silage will taint the milk of cows to which it is fed. This opinion . has not been confirmed. by official feeding trials with silage at .Wye (England). On no occasion,” Says a report in the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, “has any bad flavour been noticed, and during the time the 1922-23 trial was being carried out the College herd was included in the Kent clean-milk competition; in which it was placed second. While the competition was in progress the milk was examined periodically by a dairy expert.” It is added that the fat content was taken regularly during the trials, and that the records did not indicate that the change from roots to silage or vice versa had any defi-_ nite effect upon the quality of the milk.