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ioo parts of carbonaceous principle. Of the total N in the 

 grass employed there was no loss; 151 Ibs. N was found in 

 the grass and 155 Ibs. N in the silage. There was however 

 a loss of albuminoids, a portion of these being converted 

 into non-albuminoid substance. The albuminoids in the 

 grass amounted to 780 Ibs., in the silage to only 449 Ibs. 



" Of the quality of the silage, it will be sufficient to 

 say, that the silage was employed in a comparative feeding 

 experiment on bullocks : one lot of beasts being fed on cotton 

 seed-cake, maize and silage, the other on cotton seed-cake, 

 maize and hay, the result of which was to show the feeding 

 value of silage to be slightly superior to hay. 



" It is economical to store the early grass as silage in 

 those districts which are too wet to admit of hay-making, 

 and ensilage is therefore a process by which fodder may 

 be stored for many months and it may be regarded as a 

 means of providing for scarcity of fodder in dry years." 



1.082. Pasturing or giving green grass to cattle and 

 horses is the best. "Next to that should be preferred giving 

 of silage to cattle, but horses requiring more concentrated 

 food richer in albuminoids, hay is better for horses than- silage. 

 Even milch-cattle thrive better on silage than on hay, although 

 they require their food to be of a higher albuminoid ratio 

 than horses, but then they must get some bran or oil-cake 

 along with silage, as bulkier food is more suited to ruminants 

 than to horses. 



1.083. The Allahabad Grass Farm. As a Government 

 Farm which is worked with profit, it will be interesting to 

 give a few details of this Farm taken from the report of 

 1890-91, i.e., the year immediately preceding the establish- 

 ment of the dairy farm and cattle and pig breeding in con- 

 nection with it. The year was rather droughty and the 

 average yield of grass was only 126 maunds per acre as 

 compared to 155 maunds per acre obtained in 1889-90. 

 The extent of the Farm was 2,590 acres, The rent paid 



