Grass silage and silos

✍ Scribed by Ling, A. W. ;Peel, W. R.

• Book ID: 102886662
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1936
• Weight: 852 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000550302

✦ Synopsis

Paper read at a joint meeting of the Chemical Englneering Group and the Bristol Section at ThelUniversity, Bristol, on December 5, I935

GRASS SILAGE

Grass silage lias becn nindc both in this country and abroad for n good many years, and, as with other crops, niuch attention has been paid to the reduction of losses which may occur wlien it is ensiled. I n this conncxion the work of S. J. Watson and H. E. Woodnian has been of the greatest value.

Some account of the nutritivc valuc of grass is necessary so that the nicignitudc of the losscs which may occnr when grass is either converted into hay, dried, or made into silage inny be gauged. Normally, grass has an average coinposition of 80% nioisturc and 20% dry matter. The dry matter is niadc up as follows :