102 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



more of them, although it would increase the cost, because 

 there would be more cubic feet of masonry. 



Maj. Alvord. I would like to ask whether from the ra- 

 tions you are now feeding of the ensilage, and the grain you 

 expect to be able to make manure that will raise more than 

 that same quantity of ensilage another year ? 



Mr. Hurd. Yes, sir. And the manure I am making will 

 grow more than I had this year. I have no doubt as to this. 



Maj. Alvord. Does your present ration make the manure 

 to bring it ? 



Mr. Hurd. Yes, sir, I have now much more manure than 

 I had last spring. 



Mr. HoYT of New Canaan. I was very much interested 

 last winter in reading what Mr. Hurd said in the Connecticut 

 Farmer^ about his silo, and he mentioned particularly a calf 

 that had made a wonderful growth. I would like to ask him 

 what he fed that calf beside ensilage. 



Mr. Hurd. Until she was four months old, she had new 

 milk ; just how much I have forgotten. 



Mr. HoYT. What did you feed her on through the winter ? 



Mr. Hurd. Remember it was a young calf, dropped the 

 last of November, consequently, until nearly the first of April 

 she had milk, and the latter portion of the time she had a 

 handful of oats, perhaps half a pint a day, say from tlie first 

 of March on. This, and what ensilage she wanted. She 

 began sucking ensilr.ge before she was two weeks old, and 

 by the first of April she was eating from a peck to half a 

 bushel a day. 



Question. I would like to ask you if you feed your horses 

 on it ? 



Mr. Hurd. No, sir, not to any extent. 



Question. What is the objection to feeding it to horses ? 



Mr. Hurd. I do not like any considerable amount of suc- 

 culent food for any working animals, I do not consider it will 

 make as hard muscle. 



Question. Did the ensilage come out as dry as it is now, 

 or did it come out more moist ? 



