8 SILOS AND ENSILAGE. 



long been in use in other countries and for other materi- 

 als. Some fifteen years ago the i ' American Agriculturist " 

 gave an account of a method of preserving clover in Ger- 

 many. In October, 1873, that journal published an ac- 

 count, by a Hungarian correspondent, of the method of 

 storing fodder corn in pits as' practised in Hungary. 



In August, 1874, was an account, from the same corre- 

 spondent, of the method of storing beets, and other roots, 

 cut and mixed with chaff, as followed in Hungary. 



In April, 1875, pages 139-40, there was described and 

 illustrated "A Dairy Barn" in Westchester County, 

 N. Y., in which was a pit for the storage of brewers' 

 grains. Several thousand bushels of grains were here 

 kept in good condition for months, simply by excluding 

 the air. 



About this time the preservation of green fodder 

 attracted much attention in Belgium and France, and 

 several articles, by farmers and professors in agricultural 

 schools, appeared in the " Journal d' Agriculture Pra- 

 tique," Paris, the leading agricultural journal of France, 

 giving methods and reporting general success. The im- 

 portant portions of these articles were presented in a 

 condensed form in the "American Agriculturist" for 

 June, 1875, pages 222-223, with six illustrations showing 

 simple pits and extensive receptacles for the fodder, 

 built above ground, with the method of filling, etc. 



In September, 1877, pages 335-336, was described 

 "An American Silo." This gave two illustrations of 

 the pit attached to the Westchester County, N. Y., 

 barn, described in April, 1875, with hints as to the 

 utilization of such pits for the storing of corn fodder. 



In 1877, M. Auguste Goffart, an eminent French agri- 

 culturist, published at Paris a work on "Ensilage." 

 This was translated by J. B. Brown, of New York, and 

 published in 1879. Besides Goffart's original work, this 

 has an appendix giving several other articles and notes 



