44 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



for use in summer, as well as in winter. It is an economizer 

 of labor, of food nutrients, and of barn space. A given amount 

 of feeding value can be stored cheaper, in less space, and with 

 less loss of food nutrients, in the silo than in any other manner, 

 the grains only excepted. Silage is soon to supplant soiling 

 crops as an aid to pastures, and instead of planning for a rota- 

 tion of these crops, to carry the cows through the last months 

 of summer, the feeder will simply increase his acreage in corn, 

 add to his silo capacity, and thus prepare himself with a con- 

 stant supply of succulent feed, ready at his hand for feeding, 

 without risk of barren places between the rotation of soiling 

 crops, the loss from feeding them immature or over ripe, and 

 the discomfort and inconvenience of exposure to storms. 



The care and attention necessary to the successful feeding of 

 the dairy cow are constant and exacting, and unless dairy intel- 

 ligence governs every act, loss and dissatisfaction will most 

 surely result; but as the dairyman emancipates himself from 

 the grasp of ignorance and emerges into the light of intelligence, 

 he will find this care and attention yielding him returns more 

 commensurate with the labor and risk involved than any other 

 line of stock feeding, and at the same time yielding him much 

 of those higher attributes of the farm, social standing and privi- 

 leges and the comforts of the farm home. 



