28 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



Question. — Is not pea-vine ensilage of more value than corn, 

 an«l is not the manure from it of more value than from corn 

 ensilage \ 



A Farmer. — I have fed both pea-vine and corn ensilage, and 

 have found that I got fully as much milk from corn as from the 

 pea ensilage. 



Mr. Conk. — It is not so much owing to the individuality of a 

 food as to what it contains. If you are looking for the starchy 

 food, the corn is worth the most; if for protein, the peas. 



Question. — What is the temperature of ensilage below the sur- 

 face? 



A Farmer. — I tried mine with a thermometer this morning and 

 found a temperature of 72° a foot below the surface. 



.Mr. Cook. — I don't know; have never made any records; but I 

 am going to furnish each of my three men with a good thermome- 

 ter for the purpose of ascertaining the degrees of temperature of 

 not only the ensilage, but also stables. 



Question. — Does ensilage give milk a bad smell or taste ? 



Mr. Gould. — ISTo; if it does, why do some condensaries bid for 

 ensilage milk. 



Mr. Smith. — The condensary at Frankfort encourages the feed- 

 ing of ensilage; so does the one at St. Johnsville; onlv the Borden 

 people reject milk made from ensilage. When a farmer will 

 make good ensilage, feed it properly and balance it with protein 

 foods, there will be no milk refused anywhere. It there is, the 

 man who refuses it will get none at all. 



Question. — Shall we feed ensilage before or after milking? 



Mr. Smith. — After milking, always. As a rule, any fermented 

 food will taint milk through the breath of the cow. When fed 

 after milkings, if the cows are milked but twice a day, the milk 

 is not affected. A Mr. Tracy of Tiosra county, who milked his 

 cows three times a day, found his noon milking slightly affected, 

 but not the night milk. We have been feeding our cows at the 

 Geneva Station ensilage both winter and summer, and making but- 

 ter, but have never detected anything detrimental in feeding it. 



Mr. Gould. — It is better first to ascertain whether milk has 

 ■i taint*'<i by ensilage or something else. 



Question. — Is it preferable to drill in corn instead of. planting 

 it in check rows for ensilage \ 



M /. i rould. — I think the drill system is preferable to the check- 

 row, a- more stalks can be grown on an acre, while the corn may be 

 kept fully as clean as in the check rows. 



