CATTLE-SOILING AND ENSILAGE. 829 



The result of these two trials showed that thirteen rows of 

 ensilaged corn lasted two cows seventy days. Thirteen other 

 rows, equal in all respects when cut, shocked, bound, and housed, 

 lasted two cows forty-seven days. In length of time it fed the 

 cows, the value of the ensilage exceeded that of the corn-fodder 

 by nearly fifty per cent. 



The following table shows the milk and butter product of 

 forty-two days ration of fodder and ensilage for two cows: 



Milk from fodder-corn, ..... 1,322 ft. 15 oz. 



Butter from fodder-corn, . . . . . 53 ft. 5 oz. 



Milk from ensilage, ...... 1,456 ft. 8 oz. 



Butter from ensilage, . . . . . . 59 ft. 8 oz. 



From this it will be seen that the cows fed on ensilage 

 produced one hundred and thirty-three pounds nine ounces more 

 milk, and six pounds three ounces more butter than when fed on 

 fodder-corn. 



The corn-fodder when put under cover in October, weighed 

 6,643 pounds, but as fed out, only 4,615 pounds, showing a loss 

 of about thirty per cent from drying in the mow. The loss in 

 weight of the ensilage was about twenty-five per cent, 21,220 

 pounds being put in, and 15,963 pounds taken out of the silo. 

 From three to six inches of the top of the silo, the ensilage 

 weighing 2,183 pounds, was rotten and unfit for use. There 

 was also 446 pounds of the fodder molded and thrown out. 



The ensilage made from the large ensilage-corn was eaten 

 clean by the cattle, while the fodder from this corn gave noarly 

 fifty per cent of waste 2,393 pounds of it were fed, and 1,137 

 pounds weighed back. With the common yellow corn the 

 waste was but about twenty-nine per cent 1,481 pounds being 

 fed, and 431 pounds weighed back. The cows were weighed 

 at the beginning and close of each trial, and the result was 

 that in the first the cows fed on fodder gained ten pounds, and 

 those fed on ensilage twenty-four pounds. In the second trial, 

 those fed on fodder lost eighteen pounds, and those fed on en- 

 silage lost thirty-nine pounds. All the details of this experi- 

 ment were carried out with the utmost care. The milking was 

 done with perfect regularity at half-past four, morning and 



