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12. Yes ; as one man can do it. Be sure and keep the outside edges well 

 tramped down while packing. 



13. When completed I put on about a foot of straw, them lay on top of 

 that ordinary two inch plank. 



14. Weight with stone or with whatever is most convenient. Moderate 

 weight ; many say it is not necessary to weight at all, but I have not tried 

 that. 



15. To cut and put into the silo, the ensilage cost 35 cents per ton. 



16. This year I began to feed six weeks after it was put into the silo, and 

 took the weighting and covering all off the side from which I began to feed. 



17. The condition of the ensilage was perfect; no waste at all. 



18. It did not change at all after opening. 



19- I fed ensilage in connection with other feed, but separately, as to time 

 of feeding. 



20. For milk and butter I would not do without it, the quality being as 

 good as from June grass. I am getting as good butter and as much of it as 

 when the cows were fed on June grass. 



21. It is certainly efficient, for it makes the best of milk and butter. 



22. Have had no experience in feeding to sheep or horses, but think it 

 would be good for either. 



23. No ; do not believe it can be stored as cheaply in any other way. I do 

 not think any farmer in the country can afford to do without one. 



I use an ordinary Ross cutter, with carrier to put the ensilage into the 

 silo. I use a reaper, with dropper, in the field to do the cutting. One team 

 will cut with machine as fast as six men can put it on the wagons. I culti- 

 vate with an ordinary cultivator the same as ordinary field corn. I make 

 the land very rich on which I grow the corn, consequently more or less weeds 

 will come up in the rows between the stalks, and, until this year, I have let 

 them grow, and they were gathered with the corn, believing that the seed 

 would not grow after coming from the silo ; but finding that the corn would 

 grow after coming from the silo, I concluded not to trust the weeds this 

 year, and pulled them out before cutting the corn. 







JOHN P. SANBORN", PORT HURON. 



In Mr. Sanborn's absence Mr. Wastell replied briefly to the inquiries. 



