CHAPTER XXIV. 



LATEST RESULTS IN PRESERVING AND FEEDING. 



SINCE the first edition of the " Book of Ensilage " was 

 published, I have learned several things connected with 

 the system, which I consider of importance. First, I have 

 learned that it is unwise to try to raise two crops upon the 

 same land in one season, unless that land is in a high state 

 of fertility; and even then I believe that it will be better 

 to raise one big crop, and devote the other to fertiliza- 

 tion. I shall therefore try the following plan this fall and 

 next season. As soon as my Ensilage corn is cleared 

 off of the ground, I shall drill in rye with a one-horse 

 grain-drill having five hoes, two of them on each side 

 being attached to wings like the side pieces of an ordi- 

 nary cultivator, so that the drills may be widened to 

 equally distribute the drills between the rows of corn 

 stubble, which are undisturbed whatever distance they 

 may be apart. At any time during the winter, while the 

 ground is frozen, a roller or drag will knock down and 

 break off the corn-stubble. In the spring, harrow with 

 a smoothing-harrow, or, what is better, with the " new 

 broad- cast grain and corn cultivator" 



The latter part of May I shall turn under the green 

 rye, just as the heads are making their appearance, and 

 drill in " Mammoth Ensilage Corn," with 200 to 300 



