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agreeable odor whatever. It was very like opening a can of 

 fresh fruit. In regard to the effect on tlie cows, he said that 

 after feeding their cows with ensilage for three weeks they 

 found, by actual weight, that the quantity of milk had in- 

 creased forty per cent. (Applause.) 



Mr. Skilton. I remember reading some account of the 

 analysis of ensilage by Professor Johnson, and he remarked 

 that his analysis of a certain amount of ensilage and the same 

 amount of dried corn showed that there was as much good 

 feed to be obtained from the dried corn as from the ensilage- 

 It was his opinion that there, was no benefit in this ensilage ; 

 that farmers might as well dry the corn and feed it dry. That 

 is my opinion also. 



Mr. Rundel, Superintendent of the Industrial School. The 

 gentleman who last spoke is right in one respect. I do not 

 think we gain by any change in the nutritive qualities of 

 ensilage, but we do gain in this respect, — that it is a hard 

 matter to cure a heavy crop of corn fodder well, but we can 

 put it into a silo and be sure of saving it all. My experience 

 has been that ensilage makes good feed and produces good 

 butter. 



Mr. Myrick. Mr. G. M. Washburn, of Lancaster, Mass., 

 who has had nearly forty-five years experience, makes the 

 point, that putting green corn or green clover into a silo, 

 when it was wet, is the cause of a great deal of the foul odor 

 in ensilage, and Mr. Hoyt (whose ensilage smelled so badly) 

 stated to me before he went away, that his clover was put in 

 on a wet day. 



Mr. Steele, of the Philadelphia " Press." It may be 

 worth while to state, as against the remarks of the gentleman 

 from Boston with reference to. the opinion of Boston butter 

 dealers, that some of the butter which sells in the New York 

 market at the highest price, alongside the Darlington butter, 

 is made from the milk of a herd of Jerseys that is fed exclu- 

 sively on ensilage, with a little grain, of course, but no hay 

 whatever. And, more than that, they have been fed on ensil- 

 age during the summer as well as the winter. 



