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Journal of Agriculture. 



[lo Sept.. 1909. 



Ahvavs use the shoulders first, as the ham and middle keep 

 best. If you think it will be too salt, change the cold water while soaking 

 the bacon. 



. EMERGENCY SILAGE MAKING. 



R. Crowe, Suferintcndciit of Exports. 



The surplus fodder which will be available in all parts of Victoria dur- 

 ing the coming spring promises to be most abundant. From present in- 



dications, I venture to state that, if all the carpenters in Victoria were to 

 be engaged until harvest time in building silos, only a fractional part of 

 the available fodder could be properly accommodated. It, therefore, 

 appears opportune to sugge.st a means of conserving fodder as silage other 

 than by the usual overground silo. 



Mr. Wilson, of Hobart-road, MurrunilKcna. has for the past ten years 

 conserved green fodder in a pit on the hillside. The maize is filled in 

 whole, and put through the chaffcutter prior to feeding. The results have 

 been uniformly satisfactory. Judging by the condition of the silage when 

 the photographs were taken, la.st season was no exception. At the time 

 of inspection there was practically no waste. 



This method has also been successful Iv adopted in other parts of the 

 Commonwealth. A striking instance is recorded in the Journal for 

 August, 1907. At the Euronyhareenyha Station, near Wagga. N.S.W., 

 reserves of silage were accumulated during the good sea.sons, and when the 

 drought set in a quantity, totalling 3.000 tons, was available. For over 

 three months, 19,000 sheep and 400 head of cattle were fed almost en- 

 tirely on silage. In this case the silage was made chieflv from the mix- 



