CHAPTER XX. 



SUMMARY. 



To sum up, I will say that large Silos 40 to 50 feet 

 long, 15 to 1 8 feet wide, and 1 6 to 24 feet deep, are the 

 cheapest : they will not cost more than one dollar for 

 each ton's capacity. As two tons of Ensilage are worth 

 more than one ton of English or timothy hay, the com- 

 parative economy of Ensilage is at once manifest. They 

 require no repairs, and if properly built will last for ages. 



The cost, therefore, of storage-room for Ensilage is 

 about six cents per ton yearly. In order to store its 

 equivalent of hay as cheaply, a barn to store a hundred 

 tons of hay would have to be built for two hundred dollars. 

 My plans of building Silos are cheaper than to dig pits 

 in the ground. The small pits which are used in France, 

 and described by Charles L. Flint, Secretary State Board 

 of Agriculture, in his last report, would cost much more 

 to construct, the labor of filling and weighting them be 

 much greater. 



Since the publication of the last State Agricultural Re- 

 port, I have had the pleasure of showing my system of 

 Ensilage to Secretary Flint. After critically examining 

 the Silos, the Ensilage, and the stock fed upon it, he de- 

 clared " that the system of Ensilage would work a per- 

 fect revolution in agricultural methods in this country." 

 The system of Ensilage reduces the comparative value 



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