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That ensilage may not have a place in our agriculture, I 

 am not prepared to say, but judge that it will be a modest 

 one. To those who will build only on high hopes, it is safe, 

 I feel, to advise them to wait. 



Mr. Philbeick. What kind of fish did you use in those 

 experiments where you fed it to cattle ? 



Mr. Sanboex. I procured it in New York. It was ground 

 fine, like meal. I suppose it was the refuse after the oil was- 

 pressed out, the same material from which the fertilizers are 

 made. 



Question". Could you raise enough dry fodder on one 

 acre of the best land you ever saw to supply six cows, a year ? 



Mr. Sanboen. It may be possible, but I do not think it 

 is probable just 3^et. I should want to feed grain with it. 



Mr. Paul. I want to ask whether you have fed fish and 

 blood to swine. 



Mr. Sanboen. I have fed it to some extent to swine. 



Mr. Paul. In what way could it be prepared so that they 

 would relish it ? 



Mr. Sanboen. All that has to be done, is simply to dry 

 it, so that it will not ferment in the bag. This was dried, 

 and ground fine, like meal, so that it would keep. 



Mr. Lane. Do swine eat it readily? 



Mr. Sanboen. The odor of it is offensive to them ; but, by 

 mixing a little with meal, you will in time get them to eat it. 

 You do not want to feed it clear, because it is wasteful to 

 feed it alone. 



Mr. Geinnell. Do you really propose that we shall buy 

 dried fish, and feed it ? or do you state that as something that 

 is possible ? 



Mr. Sanboen. My opinion is, that dried fish, at the price 

 foods are selling for to-day, is a profitable food to purchase 

 to feed with your coarse fodder. It has given me a profit 

 for use, and left three-fourths its cost in manure-heap. If 

 you have to buy food, you want to buy that which is cheap- 

 est, all things considered ; and just now I should buy cotton- 

 seed meal, which runs with me from thirty-eight to forty-five 

 per cent of albuminoids. It is the most profitable food I can 

 find to mix with my coarse fodders. It has usually been 

 twenty-five dollars a ton by the carload. 



