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When that ceased to come, the pressure was 

 discontinued ; and, since the pressure has been 

 removed, the acidity has been growing less, a 

 change not unlike the acidity of a Baldwin 

 apple from November to May. My cattle have 

 never objected to the acid. They seem to like 

 it. The good milkers increase in milk, but do 

 not increase so much in flesh; while the young 

 and dry stock increase in flesh, some of them 

 over two pounds daily for sixty days past. I 

 am keeping nearly double the stock of last 

 year, making nearly double the amount of milk 

 and manure, using about the same amount of 

 grain, and employing the same amount of help 

 as last year. I have no weights to put on and 

 take off the silo, no corn to husk, shell, and 

 take to the mill, it is all in the silo ; and I 

 have no corn-fodder to handle, cut up, and 

 steam, and no mangels to cut up and feed. 

 I shall have half my hay left over. It was all 

 fed out last year to about half the amount of 

 stock. I also have enough of this fodder to 

 carry twenty head of stock to the ist of 

 August. 



This system, as developed by experiment and 

 tests, rests mainly upon having tight silos, with 

 smooth, perpendicular, even walls ; the oppo- 

 site walls being at equal distances from each 



