THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE. 



ACCOUNT OF THE "WINNING-FARM" SILOS. 



CHAPTER I. 



DISADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEM OF CURING FORAGE BY 

 DESICCATION. 



THE great obstacle to raising stock at a profit has 

 always been the high cost of all kinds of fodder for 

 winter feeding. Especially has this been the case in the 

 eastern part of the New England and Middle States. 

 The lowest cost at which a cow can be kept in Eastern 

 Massachusetts is twenty-two cents per day for feed, allow- 

 ing nothing for care except the manure. This makes 

 the yearly cost of keeping a cow to be at least $80.30. 

 Many of my fellow farmers who raise milk inform me 

 that it costs them twenty-six cents per day, which raises 

 the cost to $94.90 per year. To meet the lowest sum 

 $80.30, at the highest price at which milk has been sold 

 in Eastern Massachusetts during the past few years, viz., 

 twenty-five cents per can of 8|- quarts, each cow would 

 have to yield 321^ cans, or 2,730 quarts, about 5,500 

 pounds. 



" It goes without saying," that there is not one herd 

 of cows in fifty which averages 5,000 pounds of milk per 



