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much. With us, in Hungary, the sour-hay is cut and 

 mixed with corn meal, or some other ground grain, and 

 given to the cattle ; but the sour-hay may be fed uncut 

 also. 



" In sections where stones and bricks are to be obtained 

 cheaply, the sides of the ditch may be walled, but it is 

 not necessary. 



" I should be very glad if these lines would serve to 

 encourage the sour-hay making of corn by the American 

 farmers. " 



ENSILAGE OF ROOTS. 



The following year the "American Agriculturist," 

 published, in August, 1874, another article from the same 

 Hungarian correspondent, in which he describes the 

 preservation of beets with chaff, giving this also the 

 name of "sour-fodder." "The chief necessity of every 

 dairy farm, or cheese and butter factory, is to feed a juicy 

 food to the cows at every season of the year ; this is 

 easily provided for in the spring, summer, and autumn, 

 by feeding green rye, wheat, clover, a mixture of oats 

 and peas, corn, etc., but in the winter we have no other 

 milk-producing fodder than beets and corn sour-hay. It 

 is known to every farmer, how difficult is the preserving 

 of roots in the winter, and that large quantities of them 

 are injured and therefore spoil. To avoid this, we cure 

 the beets and other roots with chaff into sour-fodder. 

 This method of using root-fodder has been in use on 

 large farms in Hungary for some years, and has always 

 been successful. The method of making this so-called 

 sour-fodder is as follows : at first we have a ditch made 

 in a dry place [the ditch may be of the dimensions already 

 given for corn fodder. ED.] When the beets are taken 

 up in the usual manner they are hauled in, washed, and 

 cut with a machine. Then the pit may be divided into 

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