ENSILAGE ADAPTED TO WARM CLIMATES. 6 1 



adopting the system of Ensilage is the lessening of the 

 danger from fire. The tramp with his pipe, or the in- 

 cendiary with his match, would have hard work to raise 

 much of a blaze in a Silo with nothing but Ensilage for 

 fuel. 



Another is, the crop can be all planted at one time. 

 Large lands can be ploughed and harrowed, long rows 

 planted admitting the use of agricultural implements to 

 greater advantage, and much less time consumed in 

 turning corners. The work can be not only accom- 

 plished in less time, but easier and better. 



The dairyman and stock-raiser can systemize their 

 work. They will have all winter to get put their manure, 

 which they can spread broadcast upon the winter rye. 

 They will have no spring's work except to " slick up," 

 repair fences, &c., see to the kitchen and fruit garden. 

 They can now find time to trim their orchards, to graft 

 over trees which bear undesirable fruit, and to put out 

 that " little patch of strawberries," which they have been 

 promising the good wife so long, but which they never 

 before, in the hurry of their spring's work, could get time 

 to attend to. 



Then, when all the little jobs that ought to be attended 

 to in the spring are done up, the potatoes planted, and 

 the pleasant days of May have come, the broad fields of 

 waving rye are beginning to show their shining heads, 

 and the time for work is here. 



If the farmer I am writing about now, is a worker, and 

 economical, and he is both, he has been changing 

 work with his neighbors, helping them get their spring's 

 work done ; and now they come with their cradles, and in 

 three days the 20 acres of rye are all safely housed. Or, 

 if he has a reaper, which he has not, it can be done 

 in one day. No waiting for fair weather : a cloudy day 



