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The corn for the ensilage was raised on a 

 field that previously produced one-half a ton 

 of hay to the acre. Five hundred pounds of 

 Tucker's Bay State Superphosphate per acre 

 were applied with Kemp's manure-spreader, 

 and 500 pounds more were applied in drills. 

 The corn was planted with an Eclipse Corn 

 Planter, which dropped i kernel every 3 

 inches, at the rate of 4 acres per day. 



[From the New England Farmer^ 



SWEET ENSILAGE. 



The readers of these columns will remem- 

 ber that last fall we printed a very interesting 

 account of a visit to the silo of Mr. Col- 

 cord, of Dover, Mass., and illustrated his silo 

 in process of construction. It was built air- 

 tight, with smooth, perpendicular walls, the 

 opposite walls being exactly equal distance 

 from each other, so that under pressure the 

 fodder might descend with the least lateral 

 pressure and the covering come down evenly 

 between the walls. Mr. Colcord's aim is to 

 preserve ensilage without its heating or chang- 

 ing in the least, so that it will be veritably 

 analogous to canned goods. On filling the 



