Three years' work comparing normal corn silage with grainless silage for finishing beef cattle

With the idea of getting some definite information regarding the merits of the two practices, feeding trials were begun by the Tennessee Experiment Station In the fall of 1927. This experiment has been continued for three winters, to compare normal corn silage with grainless corn silage for finishing beef cattle. In this work, "normal silage* refers to silage made from the entire corn plant, including the ear, and “grainless silage" to silage made from the stalk and fodder only, the ears having been removed

1. To compare the feeding value of normal silage with grain less silage, when fed with cottonseed meal for finishing steers.

2. To determine the effect of "pulling the ears”, upon the yield of silage per acre.

3. To determine the amount and cost of labor necessary to pull the com from the stalk, handle it in the field and haul it to the barn.

4. To determine the effect of pulling the corn from the stalk, running over with corn harvester, wagons and teams and weathering upon the quality, market grade and price of the corn.

It was necessary to make some changes in the original plan of the experiment but none of them materially affected the objects or results of the experiment.