464 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



when all the pros and cons are considered, from the grain of corn 

 in the ground to the milk in the pail, the conclusion is reached that 

 silage has come to stay, notwithstanding it is not an ideal cattle 

 food, and that it will continue to be in the future, as in the past, 

 a great boon to the dairyman and the stock-raiser. 



I have written this simple paper, not so much to instruct this 

 intelligent audience, as to place in a permanent form what appears 

 to me to be fundamental principles, that future generations 

 may know how the practice of ensilaging green material was 

 looked upon fit *,h? <?m4 of the nineteenth century. 



