38 THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE. 



to save all the manure, both solid and liquid ; bed them 

 with leaves, meadow hay, or any kind of hay, for that 

 matter. 



Apply the manure as it is made, broadcast upon the 

 rye fields. The land will continually grow richer, the 

 crops of rye and corn fodder heavier. The stock upon 

 the farm will increase in number and value until agricul- 

 ture will become the most profitable as well as the 

 noblest avocation which shall engage the attention of 

 intelligent and refined manhood. 



The foregoing was it will be seen written at 

 intervals, from the time of opening the Silo until about 

 the third day of January, when I went to Virginia to visit 

 my stock farm in Sussex County. A month had elapsed 

 since I first began to feed the Ensilage, and I was absent 

 from " Winning Farm " about a month. 



Although letters from my manager had informed me 

 from time to time that " the Ensilage works better every 

 day," still I was unprepared to see such an improve- 

 ment in the general appearance of the stock. They 

 lookecl as if they had been at pasture with feed up to 

 their eyes, sleek and smooth. Hundreds of people have 

 visited " Winning Farm " during the winter to see the 

 Silos, and examine the stock fed upon Ensilage. All 

 expressed the same surprise and delight at their appear- 

 ance. It is all eaten, not a pound is wasted : sheep, 

 hogs, cattle and horses, all like it. Sheep seem to be as 

 fond of it as they are of oats. In January I purchased 

 the maple-shade flock of Cotswolds, or, at least, all the 

 best ewes in the flock. Since their arrival at ''Winning 

 Farm " they have been fed Ensilage daily. 



