The author has made an experiment on making silage of wild plants, waste farm products and rubbish of the kitchen for the purpose of estimating their value as the material of silage, of finding the direction for ensiling them, and also of estimating the nutritive value of the silage made. Satisfactory silage was prepared from corn plants, taro leaves, taro stems, unused leaves of cabbage, the rind of egg plants, green pods of pea, hairy vetches, chickweeds, stems and leaves of horse bean, mugworts, stems and leaves of radish, and sweet potato vines. These silages have generally been found to be favourite feeds with livestocks. Digestion experiments of the silage of unused leaves of cabbage on guinea pigs have resulted in satisfactory coefficients of digestibility. When the material containing a large quantity of moisture is used, close attention should be paid to the preparation of silage.
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