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a lintel on the other side of the barn, and in about a 

 month buy thirteen more cows, and keep them in the 

 barn, turning them out every day an hour or two in 

 the yard to exercise. Feed the Ensilage to them twice 

 a day, about a bushel (25 or 30 pounds) to a feed. The 

 two Silos will hold about four hundred tons ; that, with 

 the rye Ensilage, will be sufficient to keep fifty cows the 

 year through, if you give to each cow, in addition to the 

 Ensilage, about four pounds of bran or cotton-seed meal 

 daily while she is in milk." 



" But, docther, won't the cows and sheep get tired of 

 the insilage, and need a change sometimes ? " asked Syl- 

 vester. 



" I don't see that there will be any need of a change," 

 I replied ; " I have fed cattle upon it exclusively for sev- 

 eral months, and they like it better and eat it with 

 greater avidity than ever. It is almost the same as fresh 

 pasture grass when bran or cotton-seed meal is fed with 

 it, and is certainly as good as fresh pasture, as the 

 cattle can eat their fill without labor. When there is 

 plenty of food in the pastures, no one dreams of offer- 

 ing a change to stock. You will have but 28 cows, and 

 that is all I advise you to keep ; but, as you have the 

 feed for 22 more, you must build a shed on the south 

 side of the Silo, 24 feet wide and 47 feet long ; fence in 

 a yard of about one-quarter of an acre of that high, dry 

 ridge east and south of your Silos, and buy 100 breeding- 

 ewes, common merinos, such as I bought last fall, only 

 you need not bother about their breeding. If they are 

 grades they will answer just as well. 



" As I am advising you what to do, I will .let you take 

 two of my Cotswold bucks to put with them. If they 

 turn out well, you can pay me for the use of them what 

 you think is right. Now you will want to buy six good 



