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being able to be sure of the corn crop every 

 year. It seems impossible to have another 

 year as bad as this ; and I could see no objec- 

 tion to the acid I had in it last year, and all 

 my experiments went to prove it. I shall 

 weigh all my stock when I begin to feed it, 

 and every thirty days after, and note the differ- 

 ence in milk and flesh. The difference must 

 be in the quality of the crop, although there is 

 6 higher temperature this year.. I am trying 

 to find out about that capillary attraction. 

 Last year the juice went up about i inch a day 

 after I ceased to press it: this year I am not 

 pressing so heavy, and it doesn't appear to 

 rise so fast. My last month of feeding last year 

 showed quite an increase in feeding value.* 



MY EXPERIMENT SILO. 



In building my silo, I took nearly level 

 ground, laying it out to build an air-tight pit 

 12 x 32 x 20 feet, excavated 5 feet, putting in 

 the foundation of cobble-stone 20 inches wide, 

 1 8 inches below the bottom of the silo, with 

 a 4-inch land drain around the outside, pour- 

 ing over the foundation thin, mixed cement. 

 After it became firm and level, I erected a 



* This article was published soon after the silo was filled. Later 

 on, carbonic and acetic acids put in an appearance. 



