^ DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



Jy kept off— although cattle eat ensilage food when frozen, though It Is less 

 healthful. 



•* Mr. Percy, of Chatham, K. T., estimates the cost of a wooden pit Uned 

 vdth the paper, 24 x 30 feet, at $125. Another member of the Congress made 

 ^e astonishing statement that with ensilage food he had kept a cow on two and 

 t half cents per day. Ensilage food requires much pressing to properly pre- 

 serve it, sixty -two pounds to the square inch being deemed about the right 

 weight. A Pennsylvania farmer declared that with ensilage he had made but- 

 ter at six cents per pound and sold it for fifty cents, asserting that old and tooth- 

 less cows would thrive on it. Some dairymen mix it with meal. 



"All present at the Congress gave testimony to its great value, in increas- 

 ing the quality and quantity of milk, in creating flesh, keeping cattle in a 

 bealthy condition, and in its cheapness in comparison to dry fodder. Cheap 

 pits or silos were pronounced just as good as expensive ones, and having the 

 green fodder cut by means of a cutting machine, proved more efficacious than 

 placing the fodder uncut into the pits. Ensilage food is said to smell like New 

 England rum, and some joking rendered the Ensilage Congress lively, regard- 

 ing the effect of fermented food in producing drunkenness among cattle." 



