68 THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE. 



mixture about equal to the best clover hay, and would 

 be admirably adapted for milch-cows, young and growing 

 cattle, and colts. It is also excellent for breeding-ewes, 

 and for swine nothing could be better. 



The great importance of this new discovery, both in the 

 saving of labor and increasing the nutritive value of the 

 concentrated food over that which it has when fed in a 

 dry and raw state, and the fear that some avaricious per- 

 son might take out letters-patent upon the process, and 

 seek to prevent the full benefits of this great and 

 improved system of Ensilage from being adopted, by 

 exorbitant claims for royalty, has induced me to make 

 application for a patent upon the process of mixing con- 

 centrated nitrogenous cattle-foods with the comminut- 

 ed green corn, rye, or other succulent forage at the time 

 of Ensilaging the same, in such proportions as shall give 

 to the mixture the proper amounts of albuminoids and 

 carbo-hydrates which are best adapted to the growth and 

 subsistence of our domestic animals. Besides the labor 

 saved in feeding (at least $1.50 for each ton of grain), 

 and the increased value by facilitating digestion (fully ten 

 per cent) , is the certainty that each animal will get its 

 ration, and no more. No heedless stable-boy will empty 

 two measures of grain into one cow's manger, and give 

 none to the next, thereby depriving one of the necessary 

 food, and impairing the digestion of the other by an 

 overfeed. 



