CHAPTER X. 



A NEW DISCOVERY. 



DURING my investigations and experiments it occurred 

 to me that it would be a great improvement to mix the 

 concentrated nitrogenous grain, such as the refuse from 

 flour-mills, wheat, rye, or buckwheat bran, shorts or mid- 

 dlings, the refuse grains and feeding-stuff from brewer- 

 ies, or prepared animal food from fish and meat scraps, 

 such as Bowker's animal meal, fish-scrap prepared by 

 Goodale's process or otherwise, with the green corn-stalks 

 or other forage crops at the time of Ensilaging. 



For while the Ensilaging of green corn, rye, and other 

 succulent forage-crops is an immense advance over the 

 old system of curing forage-crops by desiccation, and 

 while such Ensilage is a most excellent and succulent 

 food for all domestic animals, still it is by no means a 

 perfect food, being deficient in albuminoids: therefore it 

 is necessary to add to the ration of Ensilage a certain 

 amount of concentrated nitrogenous food in the form of 

 grain, or animal-scrap-meal, or other concentrated cattle 

 foods containing albuminoids to excess. 



Animals fed exclusively upon Ensilaged corn will 

 become fat, dull, heavy, and lymphatic, the nervous and 

 muscular systems not receiving that degree of nutrition 

 which they require for their full development. 



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