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done the live stock industry a great good in 

 solving the question of preserving green food. 

 During the period of strongest opposition to 

 the ensilage methods, it will be remembered 

 that the Indiana Farmer maintained that the 

 success of it was "only a question of skill in 

 construction of silos/' and that it was "non- 

 sense to say that we could preserve green fruit 

 by the gallon or more, and could not also ex- 

 clude the air from the silo," and, further, that 

 " genius and science would satisfactorily solve 

 this matter." And so, while the Farmer does 

 not lay special claim to prevision, reasoning 

 from known data, its prediction seems to be 

 fulfilled in the invention of Mr. Colcord. At 

 our request, he has furnished us with cuts and 

 some data to explain his invention. Like the 

 splendid chemist and scientist he is, he seems 

 to have gone about this work with the strong 

 common sense that, to preserve green food, 

 the element usually barring that end was to 

 be eliminated, or overcome. The invention 

 plainly goes directly to the point of excluding 

 the air, which causes over-fermentation and 

 undue action upon the food. Mr. Colcord says 

 that the high temperature theory is a fallacy. 



