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for 21s. if he took it after it was stacked. This hay, it may be added, 

 is short wiry-looking stuff but good feeding and much relished by 

 stock. In the newer districts it can be had for the cutting in almost 

 any quantity. The milk from this farm was sold in Calgary at Is. 2d. 

 a gallon ; 78 cows were kept and nearly the whole work was done by 

 members of the family. The owner, a Dane, with the national 

 industry and ability, had evidently found a short cut to prosperity. 

 An excellent winter food is found in maize which grows to 

 perfection in Ontario and the warmer parts of Canada. There it is 



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the cow-feeders' mainstay. It is grown as a fodder plant, attaining 

 the height of 13 feet and having thick stalks with luxuriant foliage. 

 It is cut green, run through the chopper from which it is blown 

 through a tube into the silo. This building is a prominent feature 

 of Ontario farms. It is a round tower-like erection, made of wood or 

 concrete, and rising high above the other buildings. A good crop of 

 maize for fodder should weigh about eighteen or twenty tons per acre, 

 and as maize silage contains from 20 to 25 per cent, of dry matter 

 against 10 per cent, in swedes, and as it costs about £4 per acre to 

 grow and store as compared with £8 per acre of swedes, the popu- 



