RAISING FODDEE COEN FOE ENSILAGE. 13 



The agricultural journals have devoted much space to 

 the subject of ensilage, and a file of any of the leading 

 papers for the past two or three years will be found to 

 contain much interesting matter on the subject. It is 

 the object of the present work to bring together all that 

 is important from the various sources. 



CHAPTER II. 

 RAISING FODDER CORN FOR ENSILAGE. 



To one about to undertake the preservation of fodder 

 corn by ensilage, the important points are : growing the 

 crop, building the silo, cutting and storing the fodder, 

 and the methods of feeding. All preparation in the way 

 of raising the crop must have been done some months 

 earlier than the date of the publication of this work ; 

 still, for the sake of completeness, we give a brief 

 chapter on raising the crop. 



If, as now seems probable, the method of ensilage shall 

 be generally adopted and incorporated in our system of 

 agriculture, we shall soon be supplied with such imple- 

 ments as will facilitate all the work relating to it. 



The readiness with which inventors and manufacturers 

 have met the demand for cutting implements, is an indi- 

 cation of what may be expected in other steps of the pro- 

 cess, so soon as the needs are made known. Thus far, 

 the experiments in cultivation and harvesting have been 

 made with the implements and machines already in use 

 on the farm. Not only may we look for new facilities in 

 the mechanical appliances, but for improvements in the 

 material, the kinds of corn best suited to the purpose. 



