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Mr. HuRD. You can get from three to twenty drops from 

 a piece of stalk. I have squeezed bits of ensilage not as large 

 as the first joint of my finger, and have counted twenty drops of 

 juice. Sometimes you will have hard work to get a single 

 drop. That is more apt to be from the top than from the bot- 

 tom of a stalk. 



Question. Does the ensilage have any bad effect in scour- 

 ing the animal ? 



Mr. HuRD. No, sir, not one of my animals has ever been 

 scoured by ensilage, nor have I ever seen a case of it that was 

 traceable to ensilage. I have heard it sometimes scoured 

 animals, but have never seen such results. 



Mr. Farrar of Huntington. I do not doubt that a great 

 many gentlemen have been greatly interested in what has 

 been said, and I heartily endorse every word from my own 

 experience the past summer. Last spring I bought a little 

 place in Huntington, of about ten acres. Soon after I 

 moved on it, I received a letter from my brother, who 

 wanted to know if I was going to put in a silo. I did not 

 know what a silo was, and I had no means of knowing. I 

 wrote him a postal card and asked him whether it went by 

 wind or steam. I received in a few days a small pamphlet 

 giving a description of the silo system. In that pamphlet I 

 found that I could send to Billerica and get a book for fifty 

 cents, which I did. I sat down and studied that book through 

 and through. On my place were several trout ponds, and I 

 converted one of them into a silo last August. I planted 

 three-quarters of^an acre of corn, and on that three-quarters 

 of an acre I raised sixteen tons. Two weeks ago I uncovered 

 my silo and found the fodder in excellent condition. I have 

 one cow which came in in April last, and she gives me nine 

 quarts a day, and the milk, butter, and cream are better than 

 they were before slie had the ensilage. My silo cost me $38, 

 and I have enough ensilage to keep two cows from now until 

 the first of April. I think that is cheaper than hay. 



Mr. Barnard of Forestville. I think what has been done 

 once can be done again. Mr. Hurd has raised some very 



