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ENSILAGE. 



Major Henry E. Alvord, of Houghton Farm, N. Y., 

 gives the following as tiie range and average of analyses 

 bv a large number of eminent scientists: 



REMARKS. 



It is safe to always feed cotton seed meal, bran, or lin- 

 seed cake with corn fodder, or fodder corn, or ensilage. 

 And it will always be found to work well if corn meal is 

 fed with clover hay. Corn ensilage with clover hay will 

 constitute a proper feed. To avoid waste, and secure the 

 best results, we must learn to balance the nitrogenous and 

 carbonaceous foods. Our greatest difficulty in feeding* 

 as in manuring the soil, is to secure enough of the nitro- 

 genous elements. These are what we have mainly to 

 look out for, the carbonaceous foods usually being over 

 abundant. 



Not only must we proportion the elements of food pro- 

 perly, but we must prepare the food so that it will be in 

 a proper condition. It may contain all the elements, but 

 in consequence of being in a bad or wrong condition, the 

 animal cannot digest it. There is plenty of carbon in 

 coal, but who would expect the animal stomach to digest 

 it? So there is nitrogen in saltpeter and gun-cotton, but 

 they are not in a suitable condition or form for diges- 



