CHAPTER IX. 



ENSILAGE ADAPTED TO WARM AS WELL AS COLD CLIMATES. 



RIGHT here let me reply to an opinion which I saw 

 expressed in a Southern paper which was commenting 

 upon the success which had attended the " Winning- 

 Farm" Ensilage experiment: "We understand Dr. Bai- 

 ley intends to try the experiment at 'Virginia Stock 

 Farm.' We shall await the result of his- trial with a 

 great deal of interest, and hope he will succeed equally 

 well ; but we fear that while this system of preserving 

 green forage-crops will doubtless prove of incalculable 

 benefit to the North, we do not think it will answer in 

 as warm a climate as Virginia." 



If any of my fellow farmers in Virginia or other South- 

 ern States have the same fear, let me call their attention 

 to the fact that the climate of that part of France where 

 M. Goffart has been so successful in preserving fodder 

 by Ensilage is nearly if not quite as warm as Virginia, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, or Missouri ; and also to the rea- 

 sons given in the preceding chapter. I believe the 

 system is equally applicable wherever the winter's cold 

 or the droughts of summer necessitate the preservation 

 of forage for the food of domestic animals. 



The sourness or acidity which is, I believe, always 

 present in a greater or less degree, especially if the 



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