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the entire cause of the change, I believe it is the main 

 cause. It is positively proved that ensilage is a most 

 valuable food material, when properly fed, for all our 

 domestic animals." 



Mr. J. S. Wloodward, a well-known New York farmer 

 and Farmers' Institute Worker, who has made a specialty 

 of early-lamb raising, says in an address before the New 

 York Agricultural Society, regarding silage as a feed for 

 lambs: "In order to be successful in raising fine lambs 

 it is imperative that the ewes and lambs both should have 

 plenty of succulent food. Nothing can supply the de- 

 ficiency. For this purpose roots of almost any kind are 

 good. Turnips, rutabagas, mangolds are all good. Corn 

 silage is excellent. Could I have my choice I would pre- 

 fer both silage and roots. If I were depending on silage 

 alone for succulent food I would give four pounds per 

 hundred pounds live weight of sheep, all at one feed, 

 at the forenoon feed; but when feeding both silage and 

 roots I would feed silage in the morning and roots in the 

 afternoon." 



Mr. J. M. Turner of Michigan says concerning silage 

 for sheep: "Of late years we have annually put up 

 3,200 tons of corn ensilage, and this has been the prin- 

 cipal ration of all the live stock at Springdale Farm, our 

 Shropshire sheep having been maintained on a ration 

 of ensilage night and morning, coupled with a small 

 ration of clover hay in the middle of the day. This we 

 found to fully meet the requirements of our flock until 

 after lambing, from which time forward we of course 

 added liberal rations of wheat bran, oats, and old-process 

 linseed meal to the ewes, with a view of increasing their 

 flow of milk and bringing forward the lambs in the most 

 vigorous possible conditions. Our flock-master was some- 

 what anxious until after the lambs dropped, but now 

 that he saved 196 lambs from 122 ewes, his face is 

 wreathed in smiles, and he gives the ensilage system the 

 strongest endorsement." Mr. Turner states that, after 

 becoming accustomed to the silage, his horses, cattle, and 

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