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each day every second day, according to amount of labor 

 at hand. If one-half the bulk of fine-slaked quick- 

 lime is added to the water-lime, it will improve it, and 

 costs but little. If Rosendale or Akron cement is used, 

 instead of Portland, then the proportions should be as 

 follows : One barrel of good live cement, three barrels of 

 good sand, three barrels of good clean gravel. If no 

 gravel is obtainable, then use five barrels of sand to one 

 of cement, and bed in all the cobble stones possible. 

 Stone with rough edges are better than smooth, as they 

 bind the wall more thoroughly, but any flat stones found 

 about fields will do as well. A layer of loose cobble 

 stones should be placed against the outside of the wall 

 before the earth is brought against it, so as to have an 

 air space and a free passage for water. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTS IN ENSILAGE. 



The "American Agriculturist" for June, 1875, gave, 

 so far as we are aware, the first full account of the Euro- 

 pean methods of ensilage ; the article is here reproduced 

 as a part of the history of the subject, and as giving the 

 methods followed in Europe at that time. . . . The 

 recent experiments in France and Germany in the pres- 

 ervation and feeding of fodder of various kinds are of 

 great value to our farmers. Their object is to economize 

 the use of cattle food. In almost every department of 

 industry it is the savings in labor and material that are 

 cheapening the cost of production, and at the same time 

 increasing the profits of the producers. In every opera- 



