46 SILOS AND ENSILAGE. 



one hundred feet long, dividing it into three compart- 

 ments by means of two cross walls, and then feed out 

 one at a time. This would provide an empty silo in the 

 spring, which would be ready for the winter rye, clover, 

 June grass, etc., Hungarian can't be grown early, which 

 could be harvested early in June, cut up same as the 

 corn fodder, and stored in the silos for summer feeding. 

 Our ideas are, that it is best to give the stock a good 

 feed from the silos every morning and night during the 

 summer in addition to pasturage. Now, as to whether 

 people can afford to put in silos, etc. , we can only say 

 that on our upland farm we had, at the beginning of win- 

 ter, two hundred tons of hay. If we had put in fifteen or 

 twenty acres of corn, and cut and stored it in the silos, 

 we would now have been able to have spared all of the 

 two hundred tons of hay, and, as the prico is now 

 extreme, twenty dollars per ton, we would have received 

 for it enough to have paid all expenses of building both 

 barn and silo, besides raising and harvesting the corn 

 fodder, and we should have had fully as much manure 

 to put back on the farm as we will have now in feeding the 

 hay. But even if hay was but eight dollars to ten dol- 

 lars per ton, it would pay to put in the corn crop for 

 ensilage, and build the silo to contain it. The stock 

 would be kept as well upon the ensilage as upon hay, and 

 give as much manure, and the hay, if it were sold at eight 

 dollars to ten dollars per ton, would pay all expenses the 

 first year. The right kind of corn for seed costs eighty- 

 five cents to one dollar per bushel, and we hope to get a 

 feed-cutter capable of cutting ten to twelve tons per 

 hour, or one hundred tons per day, for about one hundred 

 and fifty dollars, and not require over a two-horse tread 

 power to run it. Corn ensilage is probably not a perfect 

 food for cows in milk. Linseed meal, or cotton seed 

 meal, with bran or oat meal, will produce a good flow of 

 milk. Fifty-five or sixty pounds of ensilage food, with 



