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weights put on, the mass settles, and there is a great 

 waste of space. To obviate this, and to utilize the full 

 capacity of the silo, Mr. Mills proposes to erect a frame of 

 plank to extend above the upper edge of the masonry of 

 the silo to a hight corresponding to about half its depth. 

 After the silo proper, the enclosure of masonry, concrete, 

 or of whatever the structure may be built, is filled with 

 the material, this frame is to be put on, and the filling 

 continued into that. The covers and weights are to be 

 placed upon the contents, and after these have settled 

 down to the silo proper, the frame is to be removed and 

 the covering put on permanently. 



ENSILAGE FOR POULTRY. 



All who have had any experience with poultry are aware 

 of the great benefit that comes from a proper supply of 

 green vegetable food during the winter. This is ordi- 

 narily supplied by feeding cabbages, stored in the usual 

 manner, or roots. Those who have tried it, assert that 

 ensilage of Indian corn may be fed to fowls as an equiva^ 

 lent for other green food at a much less expense than sucb 

 food can be supplied in any other form. 



THE CHEMISTRY OF ENSILAGE. 



Like other new methods in agriculture, ensilage has 

 its enthusiastic advocates, and its opponents, or, at least, 

 those who are indifferent to it. 



Much that has been written upon the subject is in a 

 style that may be considered as sensational, and calcu- 

 lated to repel the earnest seeker after facts, and convey 

 the impression that a method advocated in so extrava- 

 gant a manner may not be of real value. 



It is claimed by those who are opposed to the method, 

 that chemical analysis shows that corn fodder is injured 

 by ensilage, and its feeding value lessened by the loss of 



