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it makes a very good animal food. I do not consider it a 

 perfect ration at all, any more than I do any other food; 

 but feeding it as one feed during the day, Avhen I would feed 

 three other kinds, I consider it can be used to advantage. 

 My ration is apple pomace in the morning, ensilage at noon, 

 dry hay just before milking time, and dry grain after milk- 

 ing at night. I find that by feeding in that way the cattle 

 eat the pomace well, relish it, they keep in good flesh, and 

 their appetites remain good through the winter. The re- 

 sults in butter are good. By feeding in that way I find that 

 I can feed a considerable quantity of it and get no l^ad taste 

 or smell in the milk or in the butter. I know from my 

 experience that if pomace is fed injudiciously evil will 

 result, and you see bad efiects in the milk ; but feeding it in 

 this wav I get nothins^ but ffood results from it. The 

 storing and keeping this pomace is a very easy matter, — at 

 least, it has been with me. I have kept it now for four 

 months. I simply put it into my silo, on top of the corn. 

 The cider season comes directly after the corn is cut, so, 

 instead of weighting my corn ensilage with rocks or sand, I 

 simply put boards over it, to keep the pomace from working 

 in among the corn. I have never covered my ensilage with 

 anything but this pomace, and it packs it so thoroughly that 

 it excludes the air and keeps it perfectly. There will be, 

 perhaps, from one to three inches on top, towards the centre 

 of this apple pomace, that is damaged. 



I am reminded by ray friend Cheever that I should say 

 that in the pomace which I use there is no straw used ; it is 

 made in mills where they use press-cloth instead of straw. 

 I do not believe it would be possible to keep pomace made 

 in the old-fashioned mills, pressed with straw, because the 

 straw would prevent the pomace from packing so but what 

 the air would get in and cause fermentation and decay in a 

 very short time. Then there is another thing. Those old- 

 fashioned mills do not remove a sufficient portion of the 

 cider. This pomace apparently has not as much acid in it 

 after standing three or four months as it had in the begin- 

 ning. It smells and looks in March or the first of April 

 almost exactly as it does when it goes in, with the exception 

 that it has settled and is very compact. 



