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The Rural New Yorker people are very 

 much interested in your way of preserving 

 green corn fodder, and I think are doing much 

 to bring you prominently before the farmers 

 who are studying up the matter. 



I think, with a little patience on your part, 

 you will be the authority on the preservation 

 of green fodder. 



Very truly, 



ISAAC W. WHITE, 



BOSTON, July 29, 1888. 



My dear Colcord, The copy of the Farm y 

 Field, and Stockman, which you kindly sent me, 

 was duly received. I have read with much 

 interest every word relating to your experi- 

 ments, which are well stated, and I think must 

 be convincing to every candid, intelligent per- 

 son interested in the subject of ensilage. 

 When the full results of your system of en- 

 siloing forage come to be known, there can 

 be no doubt about its taking the place of the 

 empirical, half-way work now in vogue amongst 

 the farmers, on account of its less first cost of 

 the silo, or dumping-hole ! But time and ex- 

 perience will cure them, and when the effects 



